1780s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1780–1789 to Wales and its people.

Events

 * 1780
 * 1781
 * 1782
 * 1783
 * 1784
 * 1785
 * 1786
 * 1787
 * 1788
 * 1789

New books
1780 1781 1782 1783 1784 1785 1786 1788 1789
 * John Walters - Poems with Notes
 * Thomas Pennant - Tours in Wales, volume 2
 * Thomas Pennant - Journey to Snowdon, volume 1
 * Julia Ann Hatton - Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects
 * Richard Price - Importance of the American Revolution
 * Nathaniel Williams - Darllen Dwfr a Meddyginiaeth
 * David Samwell - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook
 * Hester Lynch Piozzi - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life
 * Hester Lynch Piozzi - Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson
 * Richard Price - Love for our Country

Music
1781 1783 1784 1787
 * John Parry (harpist) - British Harmony, being a Collection of Antient Welsh Airs
 * Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion o Fawl i'r Oen
 * Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards
 * Nathaniel Williams - Ychydig o Hymnau Newyddion

Births

 * 1780
 * 10 February - James Henry Cotton, Dean of Bangor (died 1862)
 * 14 May - Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician (died 1855)
 * 7 October - Wyndham Lewis, MP (died 1838)
 * 1781
 * 1782
 * 20 January - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845)
 * 29 December - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (died 1857)
 * 1783
 * May - Cadwaladr Jones, minister and literary editor (died 1867)
 * 1784
 * 17 January - Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854)
 * date unknown - Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867)
 * 1785
 * December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet (died 1848)
 * 24 December - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar (died 1845)
 * date unknown - William Owen, historian (died 1864)
 * 1786
 * 1787
 * 2 October - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), historian (died 1848)
 * 1788
 * 12 February - William Williams, MP (died 1865)
 * 3 October - John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860)
 * 1789
 * 22 April - Richard Roberts, engineer (died 1864)
 * 24 May - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (died 1860)

Deaths

 * 1780
 * 6 March - Sir John Meredith, lawyer, 65
 * 1 April - Sir Stephen Glynne, 7th Baronet, 35
 * date unknown - Richard Thomas, priest and antiquarian, 46
 * 1781
 * 4 April - Henry Thrale, brewer
 * 12 October - David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân), Franciscan friar and author
 * 1782
 * 15 May - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54
 * November - John Parry, harpist
 * 1783
 * 7 August - Thomas Llewellyn, Baptist minister and writer, 63?
 * 6 September - Anna Williams, friend of Dr Johnson, 77?
 * 1784
 * 5 April - David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74?
 * 1785
 * 2 February - John Guest, industrialist, 63
 * 20 October - David Jones of Trefriw, poet, 77?
 * 1789
 * 24 July - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician, 39
 * 7 August - William Edwards, minister and bridge-builder, 70
 * 26 November - Elizabeth Baker, diarist, 70?