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{{Year in Wales header|1804}}This article is about the particular significance of the year 1804 to Wales and its people. Incumbents- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
Events- February 21 - The Cornishman Richard Trevithick's newly built "Penydarren" steam locomotive operates on the Merthyr Tramroad between the Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil and Abercynon, following several trials since February 13, the world's first locomotive to work on rails.[1] As a result of this achievement, Samuel Homfray wins a 1000 guineas wager with Richard Crawshay as to which of them could first build a steam locomotive for use in their works.
- March 7 - Inauguration of the British and Foreign Bible Society, largely at the instigation of Thomas Charles.[2]
- The Cambrian is the first newspaper published in Wales.
Arts and literatureNew books- Edward Davies - Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions and Languages of the Ancient Britons
- Richard Llwyd
- Gayton Wake, or Mary Dod
- Poems, Tales, Odes, Sonnets, Translations from the British
- Benjamin Heath Malkin - The Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography of South Wales
- Azariah Shadrach - Drws i'r Meddwl Segur
- Hester Thrale - British Synonymy: or an attempt at regulating the choice of words in familiar conversation
Music- Edward Jones - The Lyric Airs
Births- 14 January - Sir Hugh Owen, educationist (died 1881)
- 20 January - John Jones (Idrisyn), clergyman and author (died 1887)
- 2 March - Henry Davies, journalist (died 1890)
- 5 March - John Davies (Siôn Gymro), minister and linguist (died 1884)
- 31 March - Rice Rees, clergyman and historian (died 1839)
- 12 April (in Indiana) - George Wallace Jones, US senator and son of Welsh lawyer John Rice Jones
- date unknown - Benjamin Price, first bishop of the "Free Church of England" (died 1896)
Deaths- 19 March - Philip Yorke, politician and antiquary, 60[3]
- 20 September - Josiah Rees, Unitarian minister, 59
- 7 December - Morgan John Rhys, Baptist minister, 43
References1. ^{{cite book|last=Rattenbury|first=Gordon|author2=Lewis, M. J. T.|title=Merthyr Tydfil Tramroads and their Locomotives|year=2004|publisher=Railway and Canal Historical Society|location=Oxford|isbn=0-901461-52-0}}
2. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.biblesociety.org.uk/about-bible-society/history/our-timeline/|title=Our timeline|publisher=Bible Society|accessdate=2010-11-26}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/yorke-philip-1743-1804|title=Yorke, Philip (1743-1804), of Erthig, Denb.|website=History of Parliament online|access-date=6 February 2019}}
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