1778 in Wales
Encyclopedia
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1778 to Wales
and its people
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Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
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Incumbents
- Prince of WalesPrince of WalesPrince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
- George, Prince RegentGeorge IV of the United KingdomGeorge IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later... - Princess of WalesPrincess of WalesPrincess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
- vacant
Events
- A furnace is built at Sirhowy by Thomas Atkinson and William Barrow of London. This is the first stage of the TredegarTredegarTredegar is a town situated on the Sirhowy River in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, in south-east Wales. Located within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, it became an early centre of the Industrial Revolution in South Wales...
ironworks.
New books
- Robert Jones - Drych i'r Anllythrennog
- Thomas PennantThomas PennantThomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century...
- Tour in Wales - Nathaniel WilliamsNathaniel Williams-Life:Nathaniel Williams was the son of Thomas Williams, from Swansea in south Wales. Nathaniel Williams studied at the University of Oxford, matriculating as a member of Jesus College in 1672 and obtaining a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1676. He wrote two books: A Pindaric Elegy on the famous...
- Dialogus
Births
- September 29 - Benjamin HallBenjamin Hall (ironmaster)Benjamin Hall, FRS was an industrialist and a prominent figure in South Wales.- Background, Education & Connections :...
, industrialist and politician (died 1817) - November - Sir Salusbury Pryce HumphreysSalusbury Pryce HumphreysSir Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, CB, KCH was an officer of the Royal Navy who saw service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812, rising to the rank of rear-admiral....
, admiral (died 1845)
Deaths
- April 25 - James RellyJames RellyJames Relly was a Methodist minister and mentor of John Murray who spread Universalism in the United States.Relly was born at Jeffreston , Pembrokeshire, Wales...
, Methodist minister, 56? - October 6 - William WorthingtonWilliam WorthingtonWilliam Worthington may refer to:* William Worthington American silent film actor and director* William Worthington , Anglican priest and theological writer...
, clergyman and author, 74 - date unknown - William Owen, Royal Navy officer