1793 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1770s; 1780s; 1790s; 1800s; 1810s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1793 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1793 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

22 November - Two ships, the Morva and the Cavendish, are wrecked on The Smalls off Pembrokeshire.[1]
Construction of Clydach Ironworks begins.[2]
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.

Edward Daniel Clarke - A Tour Through the South of England, Wales, and Part of Ireland, Made During the Summer of 1791[3]

17 January - Owen Owen Roberts, physician (d. 1866)
8 February - Daniel Rees, clergyman and hymn-writer (d. 1857)
March - Lewis Lewis (Lewsyn yr Heliwr), political activist (date of death unknown)
19 July - John Propert, physician (d. 1867)
10 August - John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute (d. 1848)
11 October - Maria James, poet and domestic servant (d. 1868 in the United States)
25 September - Felicia Hemans, poet (d. 1835)

"The Marine List". Lloyd's List (2562). 22 November 1793.
A. W. Skempton; Mike Chrimes (2002). A Biographical Dictionary of Civil Engineers in Great Britain and Ireland: 1500-1830. Thomas Telford. pp. 319–. ISBN 978-0-7277-2939-2.
Michael J. Franklin (22 September 2011). 'Orientalist Jones': Sir William Jones, Poet, Lawyer, and Linguist, 1746-1794. OUP Oxford. pp. 121–. ISBN 978-0-19-953200-1.
Jenkins, Robert Thomas. "LLOYD, JOHN (1733–1793)". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 May 2008.

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