1805 in Wales

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

← 1804 1803 1802 1801 1800 1805 in Wales → 1806 1807 1808 1809 1810
Centuries:	17th 18th 19th 20th 21st
Decades:	1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s 1820s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1805 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

• Alban Thomas Jones-Gwynne builds the town of Aberaeron.[1]
• 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.[2]
• 26 November - The Ellesmere Canal's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct is opened, the tallest and longest in Britain, completing the canal's Llangollen branch.[3]

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Charles - Geiriadur Ysgrythyrol[4]
• Theophilus Jones - History of the County of Brecknock, vol. 1
• Titus Lewis - A Welsh — English Dictionary, Geiriadur Cymraeg a Saesneg[5]
• Robert Southey - Madoc[6]

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)[7]
• date unknown
  • Evan Davies, missionary (died 1864)[8]
  • Hugh Hughes (Tegai), writer (died 1864)[9]
  • John William Thomas, mathematician (died 1840)

Deaths

• 15 April - Mary Morgan, servant, 16 (executed by hanging, for killing her newborn child)[10]
• August - Ann Griffiths, poet and hymn-writer, 29[11]
• 25 November - Jonathan Hughes, poet, 84[12]

References

1. Thomas Lloyd; Julian Orbach; Robert Scourfield (2006). Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. Yale University Press. p. 391. ISBN 0-300-10179-1.
2. "Trafalgar ancestors". The National Archives (United Kingdom). Retrieved 28 August 2014.
3. Rolt, L. T. C. (1958). Thomas Telford. London: Longmans, Green.
4. Thomas CHARLES (1819). Geiriadur ysgrythawl. Geiriadur ysgrythyrol ... Yr ail argraffiad, etc. Robert Saunderson. p. 13.
5. Titus Lewis (1805). A Welsh-English dictionary. Geirlyfr Cymraeg a Saesneg, gan T. Lewis ac eraill. J. Evans, in Priory-Street.
6. Michael Gamer (17 February 2017). Romanticism, Self-Canonization, and the Business of Poetry. Cambridge University Press. p. 157. ISBN 978-1-107-15885-6.
7. Robert David Griffith. "Edwards, John David (1805-1885), cleric and musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
8. Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1888). "Davies, Evan" . Dictionary of National Biography. 14. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 135.
9. David Tecwyn Evans. "Edwards, Hughes, Hugh (Tegai; 1805-1864), Independent minister and man of letters". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 10 April 2019.
10. George Hardinge (1818). The miscellaneous works, in prose and verse, of George Hardinge [ed. by J. Nichols]. p. 58.
11. A. M. Allchin (1987). Ann Griffiths: The Furnace and the Fountain. University of Wales Press. p. ii. ISBN 978-0-7083-0954-4.
12. Thomas Parry. "Hughes, Jonathan (1721-1805), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 26 November 2020.