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1761 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
16th 17th 18th 19th 20th

Decades:
  
1740s 1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1761 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • Edward Allgood II (1712–1801) establishes a japannery at Usk [1].
  • Goronwy Owen buys a tobacco and cotton plantation in Virginia.

    • New books

  • Thomas Pennant - British Zoology, volume 1
  • John Wesley - Rules of the United Societies, translated into Welsh by John Evans of Bala.

    • Births

  • 16 February - Priscilla Bertie, 21st Baroness Willoughby de Eresby, Welsh-descended noblewoman and Baroness Gwydyr (died 1828)
  • 15 July - Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), writer (died 1849)
  • 11 October - David Charles, hymn-writer (died 1834)
  • date unknown
  • Charles Heath, Radical printer and writer, twice Mayor of Monmouth, in Worcestershire (died 1831)
  • Elizabeth Whitlock, sister of Sarah Siddons and Julia Ann Hatton
  • Helen Maria Williams, novelist and poet, in Scotland (died 1827)

    • Deaths

  • 4 February - Samuel Davies, Welsh-descended evangelist in America, 37 (pneumonia)
  • 8 April - Griffith Jones Llanddowror, pioneer in education, 77
  • 27 April - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Clapton, Welsh-descended politician, ?31

    • References

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