1808 in Wales

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget{{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 – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort{{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 – Thomas Johnes
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster{{cite journal|journal=Old Wales: Monthly Magazine of Antiquities for Wales and the Borders|title=not known|author-link=William Retlaw Williams|publisher="Old Wales" Office|year=1907|volume=3|page=106}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute{{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, 5th 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 – Edward Clive, 1st Earl of Powis{{cite web|author=R. G. Thorne|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/clive-edward-1754-1839|title=Clive, Edward, 2nd Baron Clive (1754-1839), of Walcot, Salop|website=The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1790-1820|date=1986|access-date=13 November 2021}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford{{cite DWB|id=s-PHIL-PIC-1491|title=Philipps family, of Picton|author=Bertie George Charles|date=1959|access-date=19 October 2021}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney{{cite book|author=Jonathan Williams|title=The History of Radnorshire|publisher=R. Mason|year=1859|page=115}}{{cite book|author=William Stockdale|title=Stockdale's Peerage of the United Kingdom|year=1833|page=86}}

• Bishop of Bangor – John Randolph{{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}}{{cite book | last = Fryde | first = E. B. | title = Handbook of British chronology | publisher = New York Cambridge University Press | location = Cambridge England | year = 1996 | isbn = 9780521563505 |page=292}}
• 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 – William Cleaver{{cite book|title=The Church of the people and free church penny magazine|year=1859|page=179}}{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}
• Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess{{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=307}}{{cite book|title=The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged|publisher=Porter|year=1780|page=95}}{{cite book|title=The Later Correspondence of George III, Volume 3|author=George III (King of Great Britain)|publisher=University Press|year=1967|page=434}}{{cite web |title=Records of Past Fellows: Burgess, Thomas |url=https://catalogues.royalsociety.org/CalmView/Record.aspx?src=CalmView.Persons&id=NA3174&pos=1 |website=The Royal Society |access-date=30 October 2020}}

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• 5 January - The first issue of The North Wales Gazette is printed at Bangor.
• 20 September - The White Book of Hergest is destroyed in a fire at Covent Garden.{{cite book|author=David D. DANA|title=The Fireman|url=https://archive.org/details/firemanfiredepa01danagoog|year=1858|publisher=James French&Company|pages=[https://archive.org/details/firemanfiredepa01danagoog/page/n357 351]}}
• 30 October - William Lort Mansel is consecrated Bishop of Bristol.{{cite book|title=A Sermon preached ... at the consecration of ... W. L. Mansel ... Bishop of Bristol, etc|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xZeRlsPehP8C&pg=PA1|year=1808|publisher=F. C. & J. Rivington|pages=1}}
• 19 November - The naval frigate HMS Owen Glendower is launched.
• date unknown
• Construction of the Horseshoe Falls on the River Dee by Thomas Telford.{{Cite book |first=Charles |last=Hadfield |title=The Canals of the West Midlands |publisher=David and Charles |year=1985 |isbn=0-7153-8644-1 |page=178}}
• The publishing house Gwasg Gee is founded.{{cite book|author1=Information Today, Inc|author2=Sally Wecksler|title=International Literary Market Place|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0LTiAAAAMAAJ|year=2004|publisher=R.R. Bowker Company|page=1157|isbn=9781573871754 }}
• St Katherine's Church, Milford Haven, built by Charles Francis Greville, is consecrated.{{cite book|author=Edouard A. Stackpole|title=Whales & destiny: the rivalry between America, France, and Britain for control of the southern whale fishery, 1785-1825|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=brI3AQAAIAAJ|year=1972|publisher=University of Massachusetts Press|page=244}}
• Benjamin Hall is given the Abercarn estate by his father-in-law, Richard Crawshay.
• The Ruabon Brook Tramway is extended from Acrefair to the Plas Madoc Colliery in Plasbennion.{{cite book |title=Jowett's Railway Atlas |last1=Jowett |first1=Alan |year=1989 |publisher=Patrick Stephens Limited |isbn=1-85260-086-1|pages=57, 59}}
• Twelve-year-old Charles Nice Davies goes to serve in India as an ensign.

• Felicia Hemans - Juvenile Poems{{cite book|author=Mrs. Hemans|title=The Poetical Works of Felicia Hemans: Complete in One Volume, with a Critical Preface, and a Biographical Memoir|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fXMPAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA550|year=1856|publisher=Lippincott|pages=550}}

• Robert Davies (Bardd Nantglyn) - Ieithiadur neu Ramadeg Cymraeg{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic|url-access=registration|date=April 1986|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic/page/136 136]|isbn=978-0-19-211586-7 }}
• Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Bannau y Byd{{cite book|author1=Mary-Ann Constantine|author2=Dafydd R. Johnston|title=Footsteps of 'Liberty and Revolt': Essays on Wales and the French Revolution|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AoGvBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA193|date=15 April 2013|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-2591-9|pages=193}}
• Titus Lewis - Llyfr Rhyfeddodau{{cite book|author=Glyn M. Ashton|title=Rhyddiaith Gymraeg: y drydedd gyfrol 1750-1850|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ucgrAAAAMAAJ|year=1988|publisher=Gwasg Prifysfol Cymru|isbn=978-0-7083-0975-9|page=76|language=cy}}

• Hymnau o Fawl i Dduw a'r Oen (hymns by Ann Griffiths, posthumously published)

• 30 January - Sir John Henry Scourfield, author (died 1876){{cite DWB|id=s-SCOU-HEN-1808|title=SCOURFIELD, alias PHILIPPS, Sir JOHN HENRY|access-date=20 March 2016}}
• 6 March - William Williams (Carw Coch), man of letters and eisteddfodwr (died 1872){{cite DWB|title=Williams, William (Carw Coch; 1808-1872)|id=s-WILL-WIL-1808|year=1959|first=Robert Thomas|last=Jenkins|author-link=Robert Thomas Jenkins|accessdate=24 January 2014}}
• 13 May - Thomas Aubrey, Wesleyan leader (died 1867)
• date unknown
• Dic Penderyn, labourer executed for his part in the Merthyr Rising (died 1831){{cite web|url=http://www.100welshheroes.com/en/biography/dicpenderyn|title=Dic Penderyn (Richard Lewis)|author=|publisher=100 Welsh Heroes|access-date=21 August 2006|archive-date=15 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150915013548/http://www.100welshheroes.com/en/biography/dicpenderyn|url-status=dead}}
• William Roos, artist and engraver (died 1878){{cite book |last=Lloyd |first=John Edward |author2=Jenkins, R.T. |title=The Dictionary of Welsh Biography, Down to 1940 |year=1958 |publisher=William Lewis|location=Cardiff|page=890 }}

• 21 January – Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, about 70{{cite DNB|wstitle=Pennant, Richard|volume=44}}
• 12 February – Anna Maria Bennett, novelist, about 70{{cite book|editor1=Diane Long Hoeveler|author=Darby Lewis|chapter=Anna Maria Bennett|editor2=Frederick Burwick|editor3=Nancy Moore Goslee|title=The Encyclopedia of Romantic Literature|publisher=Wiley|year=2012|page=120}}
• 12 September – Charles Herbert, Royal Navy officer, son of the Earl of Carnarvon, 34 (drowned){{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/herbert-hon-charles-1774-1808 |title= HERBERT, Hon. Charles (1774-1808).| publisher= History of Parliament Online (1790-1820)| access-date = 7 October 2017}}
• 30 November – Watkin Williams, politician, 66?{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1790-1820/member/williams-watkin-1742-1808|title= Williams, Watkin (1742-1808), of Penbedw, Denb. and Erbistock, Flints.|publisher = History of Parliament Online|access-date = 16 May 2016}}
• 28 December – Griffith Roberts, physician and collector of manuscripts, 73{{cite DWB|id=s-ROBE-GRI-1735|title=Roberts, Griffith (1735-1808), physician at Dolgelley, antiquary, and collector of manuscripts|author=William Llewelyn Davies|access-date=2 June 2024}}

• 1808 in Ireland

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