1808 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1808 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

5 January - The first issue of The North Wales Gazette is printed at Bangor.
20 September - The White Book of Hergest is destroyed in a fire at Covent Garden.
30 October - William Lort Mansel is consecrated Bishop of Bristol.
19 November - The naval frigate HMS Owen Glendower is launched.
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*Construction of the Horseshoe Falls on the River Dee by Thomas Telford.
*The publishing house Gwasg Gee is founded.
*St Katherine's Church, Milford Haven, built by Charles Francis Greville, is consecrated.
*Benjamin Hall is given the Abercarn estate by his father-in-law, Richard Crawshay.
*The Ruabon Brook Tramway is extended from Acrefair to the Plas Madoc Colliery in Plasbennion.
*Twelve-year-old Charles Nice Davies goes to serve in India as an ensign.