1780s in Wales

Events

• 1780
• 1781
• 1782
• 1783
• 1784
• 1785
• 1786
• 1787
• 1788
• 1789

Arts and literature

New books

• 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

• 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?