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1728 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1728 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • August - Richard Smalbroke, Bishop of St Davids, commended the treatise on the authority of Scripture by Faustus Socinus, with the result that the work was translated into English and published in 1731 with a dedication to the Queen, Caroline of Ansbach.
  • date unknown
  • The Coronet of Frederick, Prince of Wales, is made, probably by royal goldsmith Samuel Shales, at a cost of £140 5/- (one hundred and forty pounds and five shillings)
  • Poet John Morgan becomes vicar of Matching, Essex, which leads to his commonly being known as John Morgan Matchin.
  • Main Street North Wales, Pennsylvania, originally an old Indian trail, is laid out as the "Great Road".
  • Watkin Williams-Wynn, the future 3rd Baronet, is mayor of Oswestry.

    • New books

  • Richard Lewis, Muscipula, a translation of Edward Holdsworth's Latin satire on the Welsh

    • Music

  • The traditional Welsh folk tune, "The Ash Grove", or something very similar, is featured in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.

    • Births

  • date unknown - John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson, English industrialist, owner of Bersham Ironworks and Brymbo Hall (died 1808)
  • probable - Edward Owen, translator (died 1807)

    • Deaths

  • 13 September - William Gambold, grammarian, 56

    • References

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