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) Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley 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 Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet 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
Bishop of Bangor – John Warren Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell
Events 30 March - Lloyd Kenyon becomes Master of the Rolls. 7 May - Lady Henrietta Herbert, heiress of the Earl of Powis, marries Edward Clive, 2nd Baron Clive of Plassey. 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. 28 July - Lloyd Kenyon is raised to a baronetcy. 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
Births 17 January – Joseph Tregelles Price, ironmaster (died 1854) 25 May – John Frost, Chartist leader (died 1877) 16 December - Mary Jones, purchaser of an early Welsh-language Bible (died 1864) date unknown Walter Coffin, coal-owner (died 1867) Anthony Hill, ironmaster (died 1862) David Owen (Dewi Wyn o Eifion), poet (died 1841)
Deaths 8 February – Christopher Bassett, Methodist exhorter, 30 (tuberculosis) March – John Evans, Methodist exhorter, 47? 5 April – David Williams, minister and schoolmaster, 74? December – John Richard, Calvinistic Methodist exhorter and hymn-writer, age unknown date unknown John Hanbury III, ironmaster, 40? , publisher, 52?
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