1801 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1801 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick
Events
- Opening of Chirk aqueduct.
- First railway in north Wales is built by Lord Penrhyn to link his quarries with Bethesda and Port Penrhyn.
Arts and literature
New books
- Cyhoeddiadau Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion
- The Myvyrian Archaiology of Wales, vol. 1
- Azariah Shadrach - Allwedd Myfyrdod
- Hester Thrale - Retrospection: or a review of the most striking events, characters, situations, and their consequences, which the last eighteen hundred years have presented to the view of mankind
Music
Births
- 6 February - William Williams (Caledfryn), poet and critic (d. 1869)
- 24 May(probable) - Elizabeth Randles, harpist and pianist (d. 1829)
- 1 November - John Lloyd Davies, politician (d. 1860)
- 18 November - David Rees, minister and writer (d. 1869)
- 23 December - William Watkin Edward Wynne, politician (d. 1880)
- date unknown - Thomas Phillips, lawyer, politician and businessman, mayor of Newport (d.1867)
Deaths
- 16 January - George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, 45
- 14 February - Rice Jones, antiquary, 87
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