1795 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1795 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort
 * 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 (until 2 April)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute
 * Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley


 * Bishop of Bangor – John Warren
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot
 * Bishop of St Davids – William Stuart

Events

 * 8 April - George, Prince of Wales, marries his first cousin, Princess Caroline of Brunswick.
 * June - Cecilia Thrale, youngest daughter of Hester Thrale, elopes with John Meredith Mostyn, a member of the prominent Anglesey family.
 * July - Ezekiel Hughes, Edward Bebb and others leave Llanbryn-mair on foot, bound for Philadelphia.
 * September - Hester Thrale and her second husband, Gabriele Piozzi, settle in Wales, where they begin renovating Bachygraig.
 * date unknown
 * Samuel Homfray brings an unsuccessful suit, at Hereford Assizes, of the commoners against the Dowlais Company.
 * The events of the French Revolution cause corn prices to rise dramatically, but wages do not follow. Food riots are commonplace across Wales for the several years after.
 * The Universal British Directory includes the first-ever entry for Merthyr Tydfil.
 * Copper bolts forged at Parys Mountain are used in the construction of an American warship, the USS Constitution.

New books

 * Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi) - The Miscellaneous Repository neu Y Drysorfa Gymysgedig
 * John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors) - Seren Tan Gwmmwl

Births

 * 18 January - Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn, politician (died 1884)
 * 5 August - George Rice-Trevor, 4th Baron Dynevor, politician (died 1869)
 * December - John Davies, philosopher (died 1861)
 * 7 December - Samuel George Homfray, industrialist (died 1882)
 * 11 December - Thomas Taylor Griffith, surgeon (died 1876)
 * date unknown - Zephaniah Williams, Chartist (died 1874)
 * probable - Maria Jane Williams, musician (d. 1873)

Deaths

 * 25 January - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian, 72
 * 2 April – Richard Myddelton, Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire, 69
 * 11 March - William Mostyn Owen, landowner and politician, 72/3
 * May - David Ellis, clergyman and poet, 58
 * 20 August - William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical, 71
 * 14 October - Henry Owen, theologian, 79