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1775 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1775 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 19 April - Outbreak of the American Revolutionary War:
  • Anthony Bacon obtains munitions contracts for his ironworks.
  • Fort Belan built commanding the western end of the Menai Strait by Thomas Wynn.
  • 8 September - An earthquake measuring 5.1 is felt in Swansea.
  • 18 September - Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband Henry on a visit to France.

    • New books

  • Edward Evans - An Address delivered before the Association of Ministers at Dref Wen, near Newcastle Emlyn, with two Hymns
  • Elizabeth Griffith - The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated
  • Nicholas Owen (attr.) - History of the Island of Anglesea

    • Music

  • Dafydd Jones - Hymnau a Chaniadau Ysprydol (hymns and psalms)
  • Morgan Rhys - Golwg o Ben Nebo, 3rd ed. (collection of hymns)
  • Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin) arrives in London.

    • Births

  • 22 February - John Hughes, minister and author (died 1854)
  • ?7 May - John Parry, minister and author (died 1846)
  • 25 November - Charles Kemble, actor (died 1854)
  • date unknown
  • John Jones (Archdeacon of Merioneth), Anglican priest and writer (died 1834)
  • John Roberts, Anglican priest and writer (died 1829)

    • Deaths

  • 14 August - Sir Lynch Cotton, 4th Baronet
  • 12 April - William Vaughan (MP), politician

    • References

    1775 in Wales Wikipedia
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