:1784 in Wales
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{{Year in Wales header|1784}}
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1784 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget (from 1 August){{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=24}}{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw{{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=26}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=612}}
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=29}}
- 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{{cite book|author=Jonathan Williams|title=The History of Radnorshire|publisher=R. Mason|year=1859|page=115}}
- Bishop of Bangor – John Warren{{cite book|author=Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher=University Press|year=1854|page=305}}{{cite book|title=The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged|publisher=Porter|year=1780|page=95}}
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson{{cite book|author=John Henry James|title=A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff|publisher=Western Mail|year=1898|page=16}}
- Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}
- Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell{{cite book|title=Guides and Handbooks|publisher=Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)|year=1939|page=163}}
Events
- 30 March - Lloyd Kenyon becomes Master of the Rolls.{{cite book|author1=Joseph Timothy Haydn|author2=Robert Beatson|title=Beatson's Political index modernised. The book of dignities; containing rolls of the official personages of the British empire, together with the sovereigns of Europe, the peerage of England and of Great Britain; and numerous other lists|url=https://archive.org/details/beatsonspolitic00beatgoog|year=1851|pages=[https://archive.org/details/beatsonspolitic00beatgoog/page/n267 244]–}}
- 7 May - Lady Henrietta Herbert, heiress of the Earl of Powis, marries Edward Clive, 2nd Baron Clive of Plassey.{{cite DWB|id=s12-CLIV-ANT-1758|title=Clive, Henrietta Antonia (1758-1830), traveller and scientific collector|author=Paul Frame|date=12 April 2018|access-date=28 October 2021}}
- 14 May - Thomas James Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, is created Baron Bulkeley.
- 19 May - Henry Bayly Paget, 9th Baron Paget, is created Earl of Uxbridge.
- 23-25 July - Hester Thrale marries Gabriele Piozzi, much to the displeasure of Dr Samuel Johnson.{{cite book|author=Marianna D’Ezio|title=Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi: A Taste for Eccentricity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wEIaBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA50|date=8 January 2010|publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing|isbn=978-1-4438-1891-9|pages=50–}}
- 28 July - Lloyd Kenyon is raised to a baronetcy.{{London Gazette |issue=12562 |date=20 July 1784|page=1}}
- unknown date – Samuel Homfray and his brother quarrel with Anthony Bacon and take out a lease of one of the richest iron-ore deposits in the district (which develops into the Penydarren ironworks).
Arts and literature
=New books=
- Richard Price – Importance of the American Revolution
=Music=
- Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) – The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, including first publication of the harp air Dafydd y Garreg Wen{{Cite web|url = http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/14997/2004-09|title = Jones, Edward [Bardd y Brenin] (1752–1824)|date = September 2009|accessdate = 9 December 2015|website = Oxford Dictionary of National Biography|publisher = Oxford University Press|last = Herbert|first = Trevor}}
Births
- 17 January – Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854){{cite book|author=Thomas Mardy Rees|title=A History of the Quakers in Wales and Their Emigration to North America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gpxhAAAAMAAJ|year=1925|publisher=W. Spurrell and son}}
- 25 May – John Frost, Chartist leader (died 1877){{cite book|title=The Australian Encyclopaedia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rtEiAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Grolier Society of Australia|isbn=978-0-9596604-0-1}}
- 16 December - Mary Jones, purchaser of an early Welsh-language Bible (died 1864)
- date unknown
- Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867){{cite book|author=Cardiff (Wales). Records Committee|title=Cardiff records, being materials for a history of the County Borough from the earliest times|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZSZOAAAAYAAJ|year=1905|publisher=Western Mail Ltd.}}
- Anthony Hill, ironmaster (died 1862){{cite book|author=Stewart Williams|title=Stewart Williams' Glamorgan Historian|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w6kxAQAAIAAJ|year=1968|publisher=D. Brown|page=187}}
- David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet (died 1841){{Cite DWB|id=s-OWEN-DAV-1784|title=Owen, David}}
Deaths
- 8 February – Christopher Bassett, Methodist exhorter, 30 (tuberculosis){{cite DWB|id=s-BASS-CHR-1753|title=BASSETT, CHRISTOPHER (1753–1784), Methodist cleric|last=Roberts|first=Gomer Morgan|accessdate=2008-04-22}}
- March – John Evans, Methodist exhorter, 47?{{cite DWB|id=s-EVAN-JOH-1784|title=EVANS, JOHN (1737? - 1784), Methodist exhorter|author=Gomer Morgan Roberts|author-link=Gomer Morgan Roberts|accessdate=5 February 2019}}
- 5 April – David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74?
- December – John Richard, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer, age unknown{{cite DWB|id=s1-RICH-JOH-1743|title=RICHARD, JOHN (fl. 1743-1784), Calvinistic Methodist exhorter, and hymn-writer|author=Gomer Morgan Roberts|author-link=Gomer Morgan Roberts|accessdate=5 February 2019}}
- date unknown
- John Hanbury III, ironmaster, 40?{{Cite DWB|id=s-HANB-URY-1664|title=Hanbury family}}
- {{ill|Stafford Prys|cy}}, publisher, 52?