This article is about the particular significance of the year 1783 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

* Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet (until 1 August) Henry Paget (from 1 August) * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and

Monmouthshire Monmouthshire ( cy, Sir Fynwy) is a county in the south-east of Wales. The name derives from the historic county of the same name; the modern county covers the eastern three-fifths of the historic county. The largest town is Abergavenny, with ...

– Charles Morgan of Dderw * Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley * Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne * Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan *

Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire This is an incomplete list of people who served as Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire in Wales. After 1733, all Lord Lieutenants were also Custos Rotulorum of Denbighshire. The office was abolished on 31 March 1974, being replaced by the Lord Lieut ...

- Richard Myddelton * Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire -

Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet (13 November 1734 – 26 July 1796) was a Welsh landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons for 38 years from 1758 to 1796. Early life and inheritance Mostyn was the son of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baron ...

* Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart * Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet * Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer * Bishop of Bangor – John Moore (until 26 April)

John Warren John Warren may refer to: Medicine * John Warren (surgeon) (1753–1815), American surgeon during the Revolutionary War * John Collins Warren (1778–1856), American surgeon * John Collins Warren Jr. (1842–1927), American surgeon, son of John ...

(from 26 April) * Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson *

Bishop of St Asaph The Bishop of St Asaph heads the Church in Wales diocese of St Asaph. The diocese covers the counties of Conwy and Flintshire, Wrexham county borough, the eastern part of Merioneth in Gwynedd and part of northern Powys. The Episcopal seat is loca ...

– Jonathan Shipley * Bishop of St Davids –

Edward Smallwell Edward Smallwell (c.1720–1799) was an English bishop of St David's and bishop of Oxford. Life He was chaplain to George III in 1766, made canon of Christ Church, Oxford, in 1775, and obtained the degree of D.D. He was appointed in 1783 as bisho ...

(from 6 July)

Events

20 August Events Pre-1600 *AD 14 – Agrippa Postumus, maternal grandson of the late Roman emperor Augustus, is mysteriously executed by his guards while in exile. * 636 – Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control ...

- Thomas Charles marries Sally Jones and settles in

Bala Bala may refer to: Places India *Bala, India, a village in Allahabad, India * Bala, Ahor, a village in the Jalore district of Rajasthan * Bala, Raebareli, a village in Uttar Pradesh, India Romania * Bala, Mehedinți, a commune in Mehedinţi ...

. *

26 September Events Pre-1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar dedicates a temple to Venus Genetrix, fulfilling a vow he made at the Battle of Pharsalus. * 715 – Ragenfrid defeats Theudoald at the Battle of Compiègne. * 1087 – William II is crow ...

- Industrialist and slave-owner

Richard Pennant Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn (1737 – 21 January 1808), was a Welsh politician and nobleman who served as an MP in the British Parliament, representing Petersfield and Liverpool for 29 years between 1761 and 1790. He was the owner of Penr ...

is created 1st Baron Penrhyn in the county of Lough. * Welsh emigrant

Evan Williams Evan Williams may refer to: __NOTOC__ People In sport * Evan O. Williams (c. 1889–1946), American football and basketball coach * Evan Williams (footballer) (born 1943), Scottish football goalkeeper * Evan Williams (jockey) (1912–2001), horse ...

founds a whiskey distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, United States, which will still be operating in the 21st century.

Arts and literature

New books

Julia Ann Hatton Ann Julia Hatton (née Kemble; other married name Curtis; published as Ann of Swansea) (29 April 1764 – 26 December 1838), was a popular novelist in Britain in the early 19th century and author of '' Tammany'', the first known libretto by a w ...

- ''Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects''

Music

Evan Hughes ''Evan Hughes'' is an American operatic bass-baritone. Early life Evan Hughes grew up in Santa Barbara, California. His mother was a trained soprano and a voice teacher, and his father was a buildings and grounds manager at the Music Acade ...

(Hughes Fawr) - ''Rhai Hymnau Newyddion o Fawl i'r Oen''

Births

11 February Events Pre-1600 *660 BC – Traditional date for the foundation of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. * 55 – The death under mysterious circumstances of Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman empire, on the eve of his coming ...

Thomas Richard Thomas Richard (11 February 1783 – 3 January 1856) was a Calvinistic Methodist minister. Personal life Thomas was born to Henry and Hannah Richard in Trefin Trefin ( Welsh standardised:), formerly anglicised as Trevine, is a village in Nort ...

, minister (died 1856) *

16 March Events Pre-1600 * 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang. *1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York. * 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse to re ...

- Henry Williams-Wynn, politician (died

1856 Events January–March * January 8 – Borax deposits are discovered in large quantities by John Veatch in California. * January 23 – American paddle steamer SS ''Pacific'' leaves Liverpool (England) for a transatlantic voyag ...

) *May - Cadwaladr Jones, minister and literary editor (died 1867) *''unknown dates'' **

Hugh Jones Hugh Jones may refer to: *Hugh Jones (bishop) (1508–1574), bishop of Llandaff *Hugh Jones (archdeacon of St Asaph) (c. 1816–1897), British religious leader *Hugh Jones (archdeacon of Essex) (1783–1869), Welsh churchman *Hugh Jones (runner) (b ...

, archdeacon of Essex (died

1869 Events January–March * January 3 – Abdur Rahman Khan is defeated at Tinah Khan, and exiled from Afghanistan. * January 5 – Scotland's oldest professional football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded. * January 20 – E ...

)

Deaths

19 June Events Pre-1600 * 325 – The original Nicene Creed is adopted at the First Council of Nicaea. *1179 – The Battle of Kalvskinnet takes place outside Nidaros (now Trondheim), Norway. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle chang ...

- Henry Lloyd, soldier and military writer *

7 August Events Pre-1600 * 461 – Roman Emperor Majorian is beheaded near the river Iria in north-west Italy following his arrest and deposition by the ''magister militum'' Ricimer. * 626 – The Avar and Slav armies leave the siege of Cons ...

- Thomas Llewellyn, Baptist minister and writer, 63? *

2 September Events Pre-1600 *44 BC – Pharaoh Cleopatra VII of Egypt declares her son co-ruler as Ptolemy XV Caesarion. * 44 BC – Cicero launches the first of his ''Philippicae'' (oratorical attacks) on Mark Antony. He will make 14 of them ...

- Edward Edwards, academic *

6 September Events Pre-1600 * 394 – Battle of the Frigidus: Roman emperor Theodosius I defeats and kills Eugenius the usurper. His Frankish ''magister militum'' Arbogast escapes but commits suicide two days later. *1492 – Christopher Colum ...

Anna Williams Anna Williams may refer to: * Anna Williams (poet) (1706–1783), writer and friend of Samuel Johnson * Anna Maria Williams (1839–1929), New Zealand teacher and school principal * Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954), pioneering female doctor an ...

, friend of Dr Johnson, 77? * 16 December - Sir William James, 1st Baronet, naval commander, 61-62

References

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