1805 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1805 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan (until 19 January); George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor (from 21 April)
• 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 – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney

• Bishop of Bangor – William Cleaver
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
• Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Horsley
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess

Events

• 21 October - Battle of Trafalgar: A British Royal Navy fleet led by Admiral Horatio Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet off the coast of Spain. About 465 of the 18,000 men on the British ships were born in Wales.
• 26 November - The Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened, the tallest and longest in Britain, completing the canal's Llangollen branch.
• unknown dates
• John Kenrick III develops his great-uncle's chandlery at Wrexham into a bank.
• Alban Thomas Jones-Gwynne builds the town of Aberaeron.

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Charles - Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol
• Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 1
• Titus Lewis - A Welsh — English Dictionary, Geiriadur Cymraeg a Saesneg
• Robert Southey - Madoc

Music

• Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) takes up residence in St James's Palace.

Visual arts

• English watercolour landscape painter David Cox makes his first tour in Wales.

Births

• 13 December - Robert Griffiths, inventor (died 1883)
• 19 December - John David Edwards, hymn-writer (died 1885)
• date unknown
• Evan Davies, missionary (died 1864)
• Hugh Hughes (Tegai), writer (died 1864)
• John William Thomas, mathematician (died 1840)

Deaths

• 15 April - Mary Morgan, servant, 16 (executed by hanging, for killing her newborn child)
• August - Ann Griffiths, poet and hymn-writer, 29
• 25 November - Jonathan Hughes, poet, 84

See also

• 1805 in Ireland

References