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1731 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1731 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • April - Trader Robert Jenkins has his ear cut off by Spanish coast guards in Cuba leading to the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1739.
  • September 22 - Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) writes to the SPCK proposing that a Welsh school be set up at Llanddowror. This marks the beginning of the circulating schools movement.

    • New books

  • Humphrey Lhuyd - Britannicae Descriptionis Commentariolum
  • Edward Samuel - Athrawiaeth yr Eglwys

    • Other

  • 23 April - Henry Fielding's latest work, The Welsh Opera, is performed in Haymarket. It includes personal attacks on the Prince of Wales.

    • Births

  • 20 May - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), poet (died 1788)
  • date unknown
  • Siôn Robert Lewis, author and hymn-writer (died 1806)
  • Aaron Williams, composer (died 1776)

    • Deaths

  • 6 April - David Lloyd, Welsh-born American lawyer, 74
  • 24 April - William Morgan of Tredegar (the elder), 31
  • September - Rowland Ellis, Quaker leader, 81 (in America)
  • 4 September - John Roberts, MP for Denbigh, 59?
  • 9 October - William Stanley, Dean of St Asaph, 84
  • date unknown - Thomas Jones of Lincoln's Inn, founder of the Honourable and Loyal Society of Antient Britons

    • References

    1731 in Wales Wikipedia
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