1799 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1799 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 – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - 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 – William Stuart
Events
- April
- *The Crumlin Arm of the Monmouthshire canal, with Fourteen Locks, is completed. It leaves the main line at Crindau, rising 358 feet through 32 locks to Crumlin.
- *The quarterly periodical Trysorfa Ysprydol is launched by Thomas Charles.
- July/August – Iolo Morganwg travels to North Wales to collect material for the Myvyrian Archaiology.
- October – Anthony Bushby Bacon and his brother Thomas take over the Hirwaun ironworks. Thomas sells his interest in the Plymouth ironworks to the Hill family.
- 16 October – Evan Pritchard, David Thomas (Dafydd Ddu Eryri) and Griffith Williams (Gutyn Peris) are "ordained" bards of the province of Gwynedd by Iolo Morganwg.
- 25 December – is wrecked off the Penmarks.
- unknown dates
- *Following the failure of the Pembrokeshire fish harvest, Richard Fenton imports grain from the Mediterranean to relieve the plight of local people.
- *Peter Price becomes manager of Neath ironworks, and brings his family, including his wife Anna and his son Joseph Tregelles Price.
- *Japanner John Pyrke relocates to Usk from London.
- *Ann Hatton and her husband take a lease on Swansea Bathing House.
- *John Sevier, governor of Tennessee, writes of the alleged discovery of six skeletons in brass armour bearing the Welsh coat-of-arms.
- *Baptist leader and colonist Morgan John Rhys moves to Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
- *The Llandovery Bank is established, as W & D Jones & Co. Commonly known as the "Black Ox Bank" or "Banc yr Eidon", it is one of the earliest banks established in Carmarthenshire.
- *Robert Nicholl Carne begins construction of Dimlands, near Llantwit Major.
Arts and literature
New books
- Philip Yorke – ''The Royal Tribes of Wales''
Births
- 26 May
- *Reginald Blewitt, MP for Monmouth Boroughs, landowner and newspaper publisher
- *John Davies of Nercwys, Calvinistic Methodist minister, preacher and writer
- 30 June – David Williams, politician
- 10 October – Samuel Bowen, Independent minister
- 21 December – John Vaughan, ironmaster
- date unknown
- *Moses Davies, musician and hymn-writer
- *Frederick Richard West, MP for Denbigh Boroughs
Deaths
- 1 March – Thomas Olivers, Methodist preacher and hymn-writer, 73
- May – John Evans, explorer, 29
- 15 July – John Breynton, clergyman, 80
- 3 September – William Thomas, academic and Chancellor of Llandaff Cathedral, 65
- 4 November – Josiah Tucker, economist, 87
- 14 December – Benjamin Francis, hymn-writer, 55