1798 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1798 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 – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon
 * 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

 * March - Historian William Richards returns from Wales to King's Lynn.
 * 31 March - George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire;
 * June/August - Clogwyn Du'r Arddu is climbed by Peter Bailey Williams and William Bingley, botanists looking for alpine plants on Snowdon.
 * 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".
 * 17 October - First recorded use of the word "tramroad", in the minutes of the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Company.
 * unknown dates
 * 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.

New books

 * Emily Clark - Ianthé, or the Flower of Caernarvon
 * Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol - Cwyn yn erbyn Gorthrymder
 * Hester Thrale - Three Warnings to John Bull before he dies. By an Old Acquaintance of the Public
 * Richard Warner - Second Walk Through Wales

Music

 * Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - Popular Cheshire Melodies

Births

 * 3 August - Llewelyn Lewellin, first principal of St David's College, Lampeter (died 1878)
 * 16 August - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (died 1882)
 * date unknown - John Jones Archdeacon of Bangor (died 1863)

Deaths

 * 21 June - Edward Evan, poet, 81
 * 6 July - Joshua Evans, Quaker minister of Welsh descent, 66
 * 17 November - George Cadogan Morgan, dissenting minister and scientist, 44
 * 23 November - David Samwell (Dafydd Ddu Feddyg), naval surgeon and poet, 47
 * 16 December - Thomas Pennant, naturalist and travel writer, 72