1780s in Wales

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

Incumbents

1780

1781

1782

1783

1784

1785

1786

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

1788

1789

1781

John Parry (harpist) - British Harmony, being a Collection of Antient Welsh Airs

1783

1784

Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards

1787

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)

1780
- 6 March - Sir John Meredith, lawyer, 65
- 1 April - Sir Stephen Glynne, 7th Baronet, 35
- date unknown - Richard Thomas, genealogist, 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?

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