1793 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1793 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
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Watkin Williams ; 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 – Samuel Horsley
Events
- 22 November - Two ships, the Morva and the Cavendish, are wrecked on The Smalls off Pembrokeshire.
- Construction of Clydach Ironworks begins.
- A group of Quakers from Nantucket Island settle at Milford Haven, where they attempt to set up a whaling industry.
- Y Cylchgrawn Cymraeg is the first political journal to be published in the Welsh language.
Arts and literature
New books
- Edward Daniel Clarke - ''A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791''
Births
- 17 January - Owen Owen Roberts, physician
- 8 February - Daniel Rees, clergyman and hymn-writer
- March - Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr), political activist
- 19 July - John Propert, physician
- 10 August - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute
- 11 October - Maria James, poet and domestic servant
- 25 September - Felicia Hemans, poet
Deaths
- January - Marged ferch Ifan, harpist, 96
- 5 January - Elizabeth Griffith, actress and writer, 73?
- 14 March - Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor, 57
- 22 May - John Lloyd, antiquary, 60