1780s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1780–1789 to Wales and its people.
Events
Arts and literature
New books
1780- 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- John Parry (harpist) - British Harmony, being a Collection of Antient Welsh Airs
- Evan Hughes - 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
- *14 May - Sir Thomas Frankland Lewis, politician
- *7 October - Wyndham Lewis, MP
- 1781
- 1782
- *20 January - Sir William Nott, military leader
- *29 December - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer
- 1783
- *May - Cadwaladr Jones, minister and literary editor
- 1784
- *17 January - Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster
- *date unknown - Walter Coffin, coal-owner
- 1785
- *December - Richard Jones (Gwyndaf Eryri), poet
- *24 December - William Bruce Knight, clergyman and scholar
- *date unknown - William Owen, historian
- 1786
- 1787
- *2 October - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), historian
- 1788
- *12 February - William Williams, MP
- *3 October - John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary
- 1789
- *22 April - Richard Roberts, engineer
- *24 May - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse
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?