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1760s in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1760 - 1769 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - George (to October 25, 1760) (became George III)
  • Prince of Wales - George (from 1762) (later George IV)
  • Princess of Wales - vacant

    • Events

  • 1760 in Wales
  • 1761 in Wales
  • 1762 in Wales
  • 1763 in Wales
  • 1764 in Wales
  • 1765 in Wales
  • 1766 in Wales
  • 1767 in Wales
  • 1768 in Wales
  • 1769 in Wales

    • New books

  • 1762
  • Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Tri Chydymaith Dyn
  • Oliver Goldsmith - The Life of Richard Nash
  • 1763
  • Goronwy Owen et al. - Diddanwch Teuluaidd
  • 1764
  • Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards
  • 1766
  • David Jones of Trefriw (ed.) - Cydymaith Diddan
  • John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - Drych y Cristion
  • Anna Williams - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
  • 1767
  • Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu) - Traethawd ar Fywyd Ffydd
  • 1768
  • Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Y Farddoneg Fabilonaidd

    • Births

  • 1760
  • 6 July - Thomas Phillips, surgeon and educational benefactor (d. 1851)
  • 8 December - Morgan John Rhys, minister and author (d. 1804)
  • 1761
  • 15 July - Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), writer (d. 1849)
  • 11 October - David Charles, hymn-writer (d. 1834)
  • 1762
  • 12 August - George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV (d. 1830)
  • 1763
  • August - Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and author (d. 1836)
  • 1764
  • 29 April - Julia Ann Hatton, novelist (d. 1838)
  • 20 June - Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi), first Unitarian minister in Wales (d. 1833)
  • date unknown - Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London (d. 1833)
  • 1766
  • March William Turner, industrialist (d. 1853)
  • 6 December - Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet (d. 1850)
  • 25 December - Christmas Evans, preacher (d. 1838)
  • 1768
  • August - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanical artist (d. 1819)
  • 17 September - Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn (d. 1854)
  • 24 September - Sharon Turner, historian (d. 1847)

    • Deaths

  • 1760
  • April - David Lewis, poet
  • 25 October - King George II of Great Britain, former Prince of Wales, 76
  • 1761
  • 8 April - Griffith Jones Llanddowror, pioneer in education, 77
  • 1762
  • 3 February - Beau Nash, leader of fashion, 87
  • 1763
  • 25 November - Richard Morris, father of the noted Morris brothers ("Morrisiaid Môn"), 89
  • 1764
  • 18 June - Christmas Samuel, minister and writer, 90
  • 22 June - Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, 63
  • 26 September - Joseph Harris, Assay-master of the Royal Mint, 60
  • 1765
  • 10 April - Edward Heylyn, porcelain manufacturer, 70?
  • 11 April - Lewis Morris, hydrographer and writer, eldest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 64
  • 1767
  • 11 September - Theophilus Evans, clergyman and historian, 74
  • 17 September - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 28
  • 1768
  • 26 March - Humphrey Owen, academic, 65
  • 1769
  • July - Goronwy Owen, poet, 46

    • References

    1760s in Wales Wikipedia
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