1784 in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George
• Princess of Wales - vacant

  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.
• 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.

  Arts and literature

New books

• Richard Price - Importance of the American Revolution

  Music

• Edward Jones - 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
• 25 May – John Frost, Chartist leader
• 16 December - Mary Jones, purchaser of an early Welsh-language Bible
• date unknown
• *Walter Coffin, coal-owner
• *Anthony Hill, ironmaster
• *David Owen, poet

  Deaths

• 8 February – Christopher Bassett, Methodist exhorter, 30
• 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?
• *:cy:Stafford Prys|Stafford Prys, publisher, 52?