This article is about the particular significance of the year 1801 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Henry Paget Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Thomas Johnes Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Robert Grosvenor, 1st Marquess of Westminster Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (until 16 January); vacant until 1804 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley

Bishop of Bangor – William Cleaver Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot Bishop of St Davids – Lord George Murray

Events Chirk aqueduct is completed and opened. First railway in north Wales is built by Lord Penrhyn to link his quarries with Bethesda and Port Penrhyn. John Rice Jones becomes first attorney-general of Indiana. The "Great Debate" is held at Ramoth Chapel in Llanfrothen, Merionethshire, as a result of which John Richard Jones forms the "Scottish Baptist" connexion. Note: Jones later dated his decision to 1798

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

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Births 6 January – Evan Davies (Myfyr Morganwg), bard, druid and antiquarian (d. 1888) 6 February – William Williams (Caledfryn), poet and critic (d. 1869) 1 November – John Lloyd Davies, politician (d. 1860) 18 November – David Rees (Y Cynhyrfwr), 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 – Rhys Jones, antiquary, 87 23 September – Thomas Nowell, historian, 71?J. J. Caudle, Nowell, Thomas (1730?–1801), Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. 13 December – William Edwardes, 1st Baron Kensington, about 90 probable – Frances Williams, convicted thief, one of the first women to settle Australia, 40/41

See also 1801 in Ireland

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