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1774 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1774 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband on a visit to North Wales.
  • John Wilkinson takes out a patent for cannon-boring at his works in Bersham.
  • An Act of Parliament establishes the Improvement Commissioners, responsible for paving, cleaning streets and providing oil lamp lighting in Cardiff.
  • Morris Castle completed.
  • Edward Jones, an "exhorter" at Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields, and a lay preacher, begins holding Welsh-language services in Cock Lane, Smithfield, London.

    • New books

  • Hugh Hughes - Rheolau Bywyd Dynol (translation of Robert Dodsley's The Oeconomy of Human Life
  • Dafydd Jones - Marwnad Enoch Ffransis
  • Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) - Cydymaith yr Hwsmon

    • Music

  • William Williams Pantycelyn - Ychydig Hymnau (hymns)

    • Paintings

  • Thomas Jones - The Bard

    • Births

  • 16 January - Daniel Evans, independent minister (died 1835)
  • May - John Elias, preacher (died 1841)
  • 24 June - Azariah Shadrach, writer (died 1844)
  • date unknown - Sir John Waters, military commander (died 1842)

    • Deaths

  • 4 July - William Price, High Sheriff of Merionethshire and Caernarvonshire, 84
  • date unknown
  • Rowland Jones, philologist, 57
  • Dafydd Nicolas, poet
  • John Pugh Pryse, politician

    • References

    1774 in Wales Wikipedia
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