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1770s in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1770 - 1779 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 1770 in Wales
  • 1771 in Wales
  • 1772 in Wales
  • 1773 in Wales
  • 1774 in Wales
  • 1775 in Wales
  • 1776 in Wales
  • 1777 in Wales
  • 1778 in Wales
  • 1779 in Wales

    • New books

  • Thomas Churchyard - The Worthines of Wales, a Poem (1776)
  • Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - Casgliad o Bregethau (1776)
  • Williams Evans - A New English-Welsh dictionary: Containing All Words Necessary for Reading an English Author (1771)
  • Elizabeth Griffith - The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated (1775)
  • Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Duwdod Crist (1777)
  • Jinny Jenks - Tour through Wales (1772)
  • Dafydd Jones - Marwnad Enoch Ffransis (1774)
  • Hugh Jones (Maesglasau)
  • Cydymaith yr Hwsmon (1774)
  • Gardd y Caniadau (1776)
  • Robert Jones
  • Lleferydd yr Asyn (1770)
  • Drych i'r Anllythrennog (1778)
  • Iolo Morganwg - Dagrau yr Awen (1772)
  • Nicholas Owen - British Remains (1777)
  • Thomas Pennant - British Zoology, vol. 4 (1777)
  • David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân) - Allwydd y Nef. O gasgliad D.P. Off. (1776)
  • Daniel Rowland - Pum Pregeth ac Amryw o Hymnau (1772)
  • Nathaniel Williams - Dialogus (1778)
  • William Williams Pantycelyn - Ductor Naptiarum: Neu Gyfarwyddwr Priodas (1777)
  • Sir John Wynn - History of the Gwydir Family (posthumously published in 1770)

    • Music

  • Dafydd Jones - Difyrrwch i'r Pererinion, vol. 3

    • Births

  • 1770
  • January 15 - Sir John Edwards, Baronet, politician (died 1850)
  • April 14 - John Evans, explorer (died 1799)
  • April 30 - David Thompson, explorer (died 1857)
  • 1772
  • January 10 - William Jenkins Rees, antiquary (died 1855)
  • July - Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), bard (died 1850)
  • October 25 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (died 1840)
  • 1773
  • November 14 - Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, military leader (died 1865)
  • 1774
  • May - John Elias, preacher (died 1841)
  • June 24 - Azariah Shadrach, writer (died 1844)
  • 1775
  • November 25 - Charles Kemble, actor (died 1854)
  • 1776
  • April - Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer (died 1805)
  • August 2 - Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist and politician (died 1858)
  • 1777
  • June 15 - David Daniel Davis, royal obstetrician (died 1841)
  • August 29 - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848)
  • September 15 - John Jones of Ystrad, MP (died 1842)
  • 1778
  • September 29 - Benjamin Hall, industrialist and politician (died 1817)
  • 1779
  • August 24 - Charles Norris, artist (died 1858)

    • Deaths

  • 1771
  • May 15 - Thomas Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 43
  • date unknown
  • Lewis Hopkin, poet
  • Alban Thomas, doctor, librarian and antiquarian
  • Richard Trevor, former bishop of St David's
  • 1772
  • October 16 - Richard Farrington, antiquary, 71
  • 1773
  • July 21 - Howell Harris, Methodist leader, 59
  • 1774
  • date unknown - Dafydd Nicolas, poet
  • 1775
  • August 14 - Sir Lynch Cotton, 4th Baronet
  • 1776
  • November 1 - Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76
  • date unknown - Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet (in debtors' prison)
  • 1777
  • March 4 - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62
  • April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77
  • July 1 - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, 64
  • August 30 - Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer, 66
  • December 18 - William Lloyd, translator, 60
  • 1778
  • October 6 - William Worthington, priest and author, 74
  • 1779
  • December 11 - "Madam" Bridget Bevan, philanthropist, 81

    • References

    1770s in Wales Wikipedia
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