1798 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1798 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

• March - Historian William Richards returns from Wales to King's Lynn.
• 31 March - George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire;^[1]
• 13 July - William Wordsworth, visiting Wales, writes "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour".
• First recorded use of the word "tramroad", in the minutes of the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Company.
• "Great Debate" held at Ramoth Chapel in Llanfrothen, Merionethshire, as a result of which John Richard Jones forms the "Scottish Baptist" connexion.
• The Gwyneddigion Society launches its project of publishing ancient Welsh manuscripts.
• William Lort Mansel becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
• William Madocks buys the Tan-yr-Allt estate on Traeth Mawr.
• Morgan John Rhys buys a tract of land in the Allegheny mountains of North America for the purpose of founding a Welsh colony, which he names Cambria.
• Clogwyn Du'r Arddu is climbed by Peter Bailey Williams and William Bingley, botanists looking for alpine plants on Snowdon.

Arts and literature

Births

• 3 August - Llewelyn Lewellin, first principal of St David's College, Lampeter (died 1878)
• 16 August - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (died 1882)

Deaths

• 21 June - Edward Evans, poet, 81
• 6 July - Joshua Evans, Quaker minister of Welsh descent, 66
• 23 November - David Samwell, naval surgeon and poet, 47
• 16 December - Thomas Pennant, naturalist and travel writer, 72

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