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{{Year in Wales header|1798}}This article is about the particular significance of the year 1798 to Wales and its people. Incumbents- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
Events- March - Historian William Richards returns from Wales to King's Lynn.
- 31 March - George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire;[1]
- 13 July - William Wordsworth, visiting Wales, writes "Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour".[2]
- 17 October - First recorded use of the word "tramroad", in the minutes of the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Company.
- "Great Debate" held at Ramoth Chapel in Llanfrothen, Merionethshire, as a result of which John Richard Jones forms the "Scottish Baptist" connexion.[3]
- The Gwyneddigion Society launches its project of publishing ancient Welsh manuscripts.
- William Lort Mansel becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.[4]
- William Madocks buys the Tan-yr-Allt estate on Traeth Mawr.
- Morgan John Rhys buys a tract of land in the Allegheny mountains of North America for the purpose of founding a Welsh colony, which he names Cambria.[5]
- Clogwyn Du'r Arddu is climbed by Peter Bailey Williams and William Bingley, botanists looking for alpine plants on Snowdon.
Arts and literatureNew books- Emily Clark - Ianthé, or the Flower of Caernarvon
- Thomas Roberts of Llwyn'rhudol - Cwyn yn erbyn Gorthrymder
- Hester Thrale - Three Warnings to John Bull before he dies. By an Old Acquaintance of the Public
Music- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) - Popular Cheshire Melodies
Births- 3 August - Llewelyn Lewellin, first principal of St David's College, Lampeter (died 1878)
- 16 August - Alfred Ollivant, Bishop of Llandaff (died 1882)
Deaths- 21 June - Edward Evans, poet, 81
- 6 July - Joshua Evans, Quaker minister of Welsh descent, 66
- 23 November - David Samwell (Dafydd Ddu Feddyg), naval surgeon and poet, 47
- 16 December - Thomas Pennant, naturalist and travel writer, 72
References1. ^{{London Gazette |issue=15002 |date=27 March 1798 |page=263 }}
2. ^Arthur Beatty, William Wordsworth, his doctrine and art in their historical relations, University of Wisconsin Studies #17, 1922, [https://archive.org/stream/williamwordswort00beatuoft#page/64/mode/2up p.64]
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-JONE-RIC-1765|title=Jones, John Richard (1765-1822), Sandemanian Baptist minister|author=John Thomas Jones|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|access-date=31 March 2019}}
4. ^{{cite book|author1=John Scott|author2=John Taylor|title=The London Magazine ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sn1PAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA236|year=1820|publisher=Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy|pages=236}}
5. ^{{cite book|author=John Vyrnwy Morgan|title=The Church in Wales in the Light of History: A Historical and Philosophical Study|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Djo0AQAAMAAJ|year=1918|publisher=Chapman & Hall|page=18}}
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