{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive; see WP:SDNONE --> {{Use Welsh English|date=September 2019}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Year in Wales header|1804}} This article is about the particular significance of the year '''1804''' to Wales and its people.

==Incumbents== *Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget<ref>{{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}}</ref><ref name="Sainty">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 6th Duke of Beaufort<ref>{{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}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley<ref>{{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}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes<ref name="Sainty"/> *Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan (until 19 January);<ref name = HOP>{{cite web| url = http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/vaughan-john-1752-1804| title = VAUGHAN, John (c.1752-1804), of Golden Grove, Carm.| publisher= History of Parliament Online| accessdate = 1 November 2017}}</ref> George Rice, 3rd Baron Dynevor (from 21 April) *Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet *Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster<ref>{{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}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute<ref>{{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}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet<ref>{{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}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – ''vacant until 1804'' *Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford<ref name="Sainty"/><ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-PHIL-PIC-1491|title=Philipps family, of Picton|author=Bertie George Charles|date=1959|access-date=19 October 2021}}</ref> *Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley (until 1 December); George Rodney, 3rd Baron Rodney<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Williams|title=The History of Radnorshire|publisher=R. Mason|year=1859|page=115}}</ref><ref name="Sainty"/>

*Bishop of Bangor – William Cleaver<ref name="Fasti305">{{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}}</ref><ref name="Fryde292">{{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}}</ref> *Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson<ref>{{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}}</ref> *Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Horsley<ref>{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}</ref><ref name="Fasti307"/> *Bishop of St Davids – Thomas Burgess<ref name="Fasti307">{{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}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged|publisher=Porter|year=1780|page=95}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>

==Events== * February 21 - The Cornishman Richard Trevithick's newly built "Penydarren" steam locomotive operates on the Merthyr Tramroad between the Penydarren Ironworks in Merthyr Tydfil and Abercynon, following several trials since February 13, the world's first locomotive to work on rails.<ref>{{cite book|last=Rattenbury|first=Gordon|author2=Lewis, M. J. T.|title=Merthyr Tydfil Tramroads and their Locomotives|year=2004|publisher=Railway and Canal Historical Society|location=Oxford|isbn=0-901461-52-0}}</ref> As a result of this achievement, Samuel Homfray wins a 1000 guineas wager with Richard Crawshay as to which of them could first build a steam locomotive for use in their works. *March 7 - Inauguration of the British and Foreign Bible Society, largely at the instigation of Thomas Charles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.biblesociety.org.uk/about-bible-society/history/our-timeline/|title=Our timeline|publisher=Bible Society|accessdate=2010-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228224810/http://www.biblesociety.org.uk/about-bible-society/history/our-timeline/|archive-date=28 December 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref> *''The Cambrian'' is the first newspaper published in Wales.

==Arts and literature==

===New books=== *Edward Davies - ''Celtic Researches on the Origin, Traditions and Languages of the Ancient Britons'' *Richard Llwyd **''Gayton Wake, or Mary Dod'' **''Poems, Tales, Odes, Sonnets, Translations from the British'' *Benjamin Heath Malkin - ''The Scenery, Antiquities, and Biography of South Wales'' *Azariah Shadrach - ''Drws i'r Meddwl Segur'' *Hester Thrale - ''British Synonymy: or an attempt at regulating the choice of words in familiar conversation''

===Music=== *Edward Jones - ''The Lyric Airs''

==Births== *14 January - Sir Hugh Owen, educationist (died 1881)<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Owen, Hugh (1804-1881)}}</ref> *20 January - John Jones (Idrisyn), clergyman and author (died 1887) *2 March - Henry Davies, journalist (died 1890) *5 March - John Davies (Siôn Gymro), minister and linguist (died 1884) *31 March - Rice Rees, clergyman and historian (died 1839)<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-REES-RIC-1804|title=REES, RICE (1804&ndash;1839), cleric and scholar|last=Jones|first=Selwyn|access-date=26 April 2008}}</ref> *12 April (in Indiana) - George Wallace Jones, US senator and son of Welsh lawyer John Rice Jones (died 1896)<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=J000221|title=JONES, George Wallace, (1804 - 1896)|website=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=10 April 2019}}</ref> *''date unknown'' - Benjamin Price, first bishop of the "Free Church of England" (died 1896)

==Deaths== *19 January - John Vaughan, politician, about 51<ref name = HOP/> *19 March - Philip Yorke, politician and antiquary, 60<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/yorke-philip-1743-1804|title=Yorke, Philip (1743-1804), of Erthig, Denb.|website=History of Parliament online|access-date=6 February 2019}}</ref> *17 May - Mary Penry, Moravian settler in Pennsylvania, 68<ref>Scott Paul Gordon, [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_moravian_history/summary/v013/13.1.gordon.html "Glad Passivity: Mary Penry of Lititz and the Making of Moravian Women"] ''Journal of Moravian History'' 13(1)(March 2013): 1-26.</ref> *20 September - Josiah Rees, Unitarian minister, 59<ref>{{cite DWB|id=s-REES-JOS-1744|title=Rees, Josiah (1744-1804), Unitarian minister|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|access-date=10 April 2019}}</ref> *1 December - Thomas Harley, Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire, 74 *7 December - Morgan John Rhys, Baptist minister, 43<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Rhees, Morgan John|volume=48}}</ref>

==See also== *1804 in Ireland

==References== {{reflist}}

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