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1786 in Wales

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Incumbents
Events
Arts and literature
New books Music
Births
Deaths
References

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1786 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

25 December - Plymouth ironworks is leased to Richard Hill.
The Kinmel estate is sold to the Rev Edward Hughes for £42,000.^[1]
Abraham Rees completes his edition of Chambers 's Encyclopaedia, and is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his work.
Charles Pratt is created Earl Camden.

Arts and literature

New books

David Samwell - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook
Hester Lynch Piozzi - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life^[2]
Helen Maria Williams - Poems^[3]

Music

William Ellis - Ychydig o Hymnau a Chaniadau Newyddion (collection of hymns)^[4]
Benjamin Francis - Aleluia (collection of hymns)

Births

6 April - John Humffreys Parry, barrister and antiquary (died 1825)
May - John Jones, printer and inventor (died 1865)
22 June - Ellis Evans, minister and author (died 1864)

Deaths

21 January - Anthony Bacon, ironmaster, 67
16 September - Edward Parry, poet and hymn-writer, 63

References

1. ^{{cite book|author=H. J. Habakkuk|title=Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System: English Landownership, 1650-1950|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nNy5AAAAIAAJ|year=1994|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-820398-8}}
2. ^{{cite book|author=Hester Lynch Piozzi|title=Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: during the last twenty years of his life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TaUEAAAAYAAJ|year=1786|publisher=Printed for T. Cadell}}
3. ^Kennedy, Deborah, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press (June 2002). {{ISBN|0-8387-5511-9}}.
4. ^{{cite book|title=Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AXJIAQAAIAAJ|year=1953|publisher=Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorioa}}

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