1778 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1778 to Wales and its people.

1778
in
Wales

Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1750s
  • 1760s
  • 1770s
  • 1780s
  • 1790s
See also:
1778 in
Great Britain
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

Events

  • date unknown
    • A furnace is built at Sirhowy by Thomas Atkinson and William Barrow of London. This is the first stage of the Tredegar ironworks.[1]
    • Elizabeth Baker leaves her job as secretary to Hugh Vaughan at Hengwrt to live in the adjoining house of Doluwcheogryd.[2]

Arts and literature

New books

Music

Births

Deaths

References

  1. "Sirhowy Iron Works". Grace's Guide to British Industrial History. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  2. William Llewelyn Davies. "Baker, Elizabeth (c.1720-1789), diarist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  3. "Thomas Pennant, A tour in Wales". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
  4. Phyllis Kinney (15 April 2011). Welsh Traditional Music. University of Wales Press. pp. 28–. ISBN 978-1-78316-299-4.
  5. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Dillwyn family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  6. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Howells, William" . Dictionary of National Biography. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  7. David Williams. "Hall, Benjamin (1778-1817), industrialist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  8. Thomas John Morgan. "Williams, Thomas (Gwilym Morgannwg; 1778-1835), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
  9. O'Byrne, William Richard (1849). "Davenport, Salusbury Pryce" . A Naval Biographical Dictionary . John Murray via Wikisource.
  10. "Relly, James" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  11. Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society. 1914. p. 104.
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