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1771 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1771 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • December
  • First meeting of the Cymdeithas y Gwyneddigion is held; Owen Jones is its president.
  • Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, marries Charlotte Grenville.

    • New books

  • David Williams - The Philosopher, in Three Conversations
  • Williams Evans - A New English-Welsh dictionary: Containing All Words Necessary for Reading an English Author

    • Music

  • Elis Roberts - Tair Rhan Oes Dyn
  • Peter Williams (1722-1796) - Hymns on Various Subjects (includes "Prayer for Strength", the first English translation of the hymn "Cwm Rhondda")

    • Births

  • 14 May - Robert Owen, socialist (d. 1858)

    • Deaths

  • 15 May - Thomas Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 43
  • date unknown
  • Lewis Hopkin, poet
  • Richard Trevor, former bishop of St David's

    • References

    1771 in Wales Wikipedia
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