“1808 in Wales”的意思、由来-开放百科全书

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

Events

5 January - First issue of The North Wales Gazette is printed at Bangor.

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.
William Lort Mansel becomes Bishop of Bristol.
The White Book of Hergest is destroyed in a fire at Covent Garden.
The Ruabon Brook Tramway is extended from Acrefair to the Plas Madoc Colliery in Plasbennion.^[1]
Twelve-year-old Charles Nice Davies goes to serve in India as an ensign.

Births

30 January - Sir John Henry Scourfield, author (died 1876)

6 March - William Williams (Carw Coch), man of letters and eisteddfodwr (died 1872)

13 May - Thomas Aubrey, Wesleyan leader (died 1867)

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Dic Penderyn, labourer executed for his part in the Merthyr Rising (died 1831)^[5]
William Roos, artist and engraver (died 1878)^[6]

References

1. ^{{cite book |title=Jowett's Railway Atlas |last1=Jowett |first1=Alan |year=1989 |publisher=Patrick Stephens Limited |isbn=1-85260-086-1|pages=57, 59}}
2. ^{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P51iAAAAMAAJ|date=April 1986|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=136}}
3. ^{{cite book|author1=Mary-Ann Constantine|author2=Dafydd R. Johnston|title=Footsteps of 'Liberty and Revolt': Essays on Wales and the French Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AoGvBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA193|date=15 April 2013|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-2591-9|pages=193}}
4. ^{{cite book|author=Glyn M. Ashton|title=Rhyddiaith Gymraeg: y drydedd gyfrol 1750-1850|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ucgrAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Gwasg Prifysfol Cymru|isbn=978-0-7083-0975-9|page=76|language=cy}}
5. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.100welshheroes.com/en/biography/dicpenderyn|title=Dic Penderyn (Richard Lewis)|author=|publisher=100 Welsh Heroes|accessdate=21 August 2006}}
6. ^{{cite book |last=Lloyd |first=John Edward |author2=Jenkins, R.T. |title=The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, Down to 1940 |year=1958 |publisher=William Lewis|location=Cardiff|page=890 |isbn=}}

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