1802 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1802 to Wales and its people.Incumbents
New books
- Thomas Charles - The Welsh Methodists Vindicated
- Abraham Rees - The New Cyclopaedia, vol. 1
Music
- Edward Jones - The Musical and Poetical Relicks of the Welsh Bards, vol. 2
Sport
- Royal Anglesey Yacht Club founded at Beaumaris.
Births
- 15 July - James Allen, Bishop of St David's
- August - Ebenezer Thomas, poet
- 24 August - William Rowlands
- 26 August - George Wightwick, architect working in south west England and pioneer architectural journalist
- 8 November
- *Benjamin Hall, 1st Baron Llanover
- *William Rees, poet and author
- 4 December - Calvert Jones, pioneer photographer
- 12 December
- *John Ryland Harris, printer
- *Isaac Williams, poet
- date unknown - Thomas Robert Jones, founder of The Philanthropic Order of True Ivorites
Deaths
- 3 April - John Williams, evangelical clergyman, about 40
- 4 April - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, politician and barrister, 69
- 26 May - Joseph Hoare, academic
- 6 July - Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, soldier, and politician of Welsh parentage, 66
- 28 November - Robert Roberts, preacher, 40
- 30 November - Thomas Williams of Llanidan, industrialist, 65
- 6 December - Roger Kemble, travelling theatre manager, father of Sarah Siddons, 81
- 31 December - Francis Lewis, signatory of the Declaration of American Independence, 80
- date unknown - Abraham Elliot Griffiths, co-founder of Sierra Leone, age unknown
