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1766 in Wales

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Events from the year 1766 in Wales.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
  • Princess of Wales - vacant

    • Events

  • February 19 - Thomas Kymer is granted an Act of Parliament allowing him to construct the Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal.
  • May 12 - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet, marries Margaret, daughter of Rev Hugh Wynn and heiress to the Bodysgallen estate.
  • John, Lord Mountstuart marries Charlotte Jane, granddaughter of Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor.

    • New books

  • David Jones of Trefriw (ed.) - Cydymaith Diddan
  • John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - Drych y Cristion
  • Anna Williams - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse

    • Births

  • March - William Turner, industrialist (died 1853)
  • December 6 - Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet (died 1850)
  • December 25 - Christmas Evans, preacher (died 1838)
  • Martha Llwyd, hymnodist (died 1845)

    • Deaths

  • November 17 - Morgan Morgan, 78, Welsh-born American colonist

    • References

    1766 in Wales Wikipedia
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