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1740s in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1740 - 1749 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - Frederick
  • Princess of Wales - Augusta

    • Events

    1740

    1741

    1742

    1743

    1744

    1745

    1746

    1747

    1748

    1749

    New books

    1740

  • John Dyer - The Ruins of Rome
  • Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) - Welsh Piety
  • Zachariah Williams - The Mariners Compass Completed

    • 1742

    1744

  • Jane Brereton - Poems on several occasions (posthumously published)

    • 1746

  • Anna Williams - Life of the Emperor Julian (translation from the French)

    • 1749

  • Zachariah Williams - A True Narrative of certain Circumstances relating to Zachariah Williams in the Charterhouse

    • Music

    1740

  • Howell Harris - Llyfr o Hymneu o Waith Amryw Awdwyr (collection of hymns)

    • 1742

  • Howell Harris & Daniel Rowland - Sail, Dibenion, a Rheolau'r Societies (collection of hymns)

    • 1744

  • William Williams Pantycelyn - Aleluia (hymns: first part)

    • Births

    1740

  • date unknown - Sir Watkin Lewes, politician (d. 1821)

    • 1741

  • January 16 - Hester Thrale, diarist and friend of Dr Johnson (d. 1821)
  • August 20 - Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (d. 1811)
  • September 3 - Owen Jones, antiquary (d. 1814)

    • 1742

  • September 26 - Thomas Jones, landscape painter (d. 1803)
  • December 3 - Sir Erasmus Gower, naval commander (d. 1814)

    • 1745

  • February 14 - David Davis (Castellhywel), poet (d. 1827)

    • 1746

  • September 28 - William Jones, philologist (d. 1794)

    • 1747

  • January - Richard Fenton, poet and author (d. 1821)

    • 1748

  • September 1 - Thomas Johnes, landowner (d. 1816)

    • 1749

  • September 23 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician (d. 1789)

    • Deaths

    1740

  • August 7 - Jane Brereton, poet, 55
  • October 20 - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn, politician, 75?

    • 1741

  • August - David Owen, 29 ("David of the White Rock"), harpist,
  • date unknown
  • Wil Hopcyn, poet, 41?
  • Robert Roberts, theologian, 61?

    • 1743

  • July 15 - John Wynne, bishop, 83?
  • date unknown
  • Thomas Morgan, Deist theologian
  • Robert Wynne, clergyman and academic

    • 1744

  • March 2 - William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, Jacobite, husband of Winifred Herbert

    • 1745

  • May 7 - Sir Thomas Hanmer, politician and literary editor, 68

    • 1746

  • May 21 - Lewis Morris, Welsh-descended Governor of New Jersey, 74

    • 1748

  • August 27 - Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet, 53

    • 1749

  • May - Winifred Herbert, Countess of Nithsdale, 58?
  • August - Angharad James, poet, 72
  • September 26 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, 57

    • References

    1740s in Wales Wikipedia
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