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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1798 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents Events - March - Historian William Richards returns from Wales to King's Lynn.
- 31 March - George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis, becomes Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire;[1]
- 13 July - William Wordsworth, visiting Wales, writes "[[Tintern Abbey (poem)|Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey on revisiting the banks of the Wye during a tour".
- First recorded use of the word "tramroad", in the minutes of the Brecon and Abergavenny Canal Company.
- "Great Debate" held at Ramoth Chapel in Llanfrothen, Merionethshire, as a result of which John Richard Jones forms the "Scottish Baptist" connexion.
- The Gwyneddigion Society launches its project of publishing ancient Welsh manuscripts.
- William Lort Mansel becomes Master of Trinity College, Cambridge.
- Morgan John Rhys buys a tract of land in the Allegheny mountains of North America for the purpose of founding a Welsh colony, which he names Cambria.
- Clogwyn Du'r Arddu is climbed by the Reverends Peter Williams and W. Bingley, botanists looking for alpine plants on Snowdon.
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