1784 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1784 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget (from 1 August)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw
 * Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
 * Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
 * Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
 * Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
 * Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart
 * Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer


 * Bishop of Bangor – John Warren
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley
 * Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell

Events

 * 30 March - Lloyd Kenyon becomes Master of the Rolls.
 * 7 May - Lady Henrietta Herbert, heiress of the Earl of Powis, marries Edward Clive, 2nd Baron Clive of Plassey.
 * 14 May - Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, is created Baron Bulkeley.
 * 19 May - Henry Bayly Paget, 9th Baron Paget, is created Earl of Uxbridge.
 * 23-25 July - Hester Thrale marries Gabriele Piozzi, much to the displeasure of Dr Samuel Johnson.
 * 28 July - Lloyd Kenyon is raised to a baronetcy.
 * unknown date – Samuel Homfray and his brother quarrel with Anthony Bacon and take out a lease of one of the richest iron-ore deposits in the district (which develops into the Penydarren ironworks).

New books

 * Richard Price – Importance of the American Revolution

Music

 * Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) – The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, including first publication of the harp air Dafydd y Garreg Wen

Births

 * 17 January – Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854)
 * 25 May – John Frost, Chartist leader (died 1877)
 * 16 December - Mary Jones, purchaser of an early Welsh-language Bible (died 1864)
 * date unknown
 * Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867)
 * Anthony Hill, ironmaster (died 1862)
 * David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet (died 1841)

Deaths

 * 8 February – Christopher Bassett, Methodist exhorter, 30 (tuberculosis)
 * March – John Evans, Methodist exhorter, 47?
 * 5 April – David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74?
 * December – John Richard, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer, age unknown
 * date unknown
 * John Hanbury III, ironmaster, 40?
 * Stafford Prys, publisher, 52?