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1777 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1777 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 1 March - David Samwell, at sea between New Zealand and Tahiti with Captain Cook, writes a pennillion.
  • 22 July - The business partnership between Anthony Bacon and William Brownrigg is dissolved.
  • Thomas Pennant marries Anne Mostyn, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet.
  • Francis Towne and John White go on a painting tour of North Wales.

    • New books

  • Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Duwdod Crist
  • Nicholas Owen - British Remains
  • Thomas Pennant - British Zoology, vol. 4
  • William Williams Pantycelyn - Ductor Naptiarum: Neu Gyfarwyddwr Priodas

    • Births

  • 15 June - David Daniel Davis, royal obstetrician (died 1841)
  • 29 August - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848)
  • 15 September - John Jones of Ystrad, MP (died 1842)
  • 7 November - Richard Bassett, priest (died 1852)
  • date unknown
  • William Camden Edwards, engraver (died 1855)
  • Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (died 1864)

    • Deaths

  • 4 March - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62
  • 5 April - Thomas Lewis, politician, 86
  • April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77
  • 19 May - Button Gwinnett, American political leader of Welsh parentage, 41
  • 1 July - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, 64
  • 30 August - Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer, 66
  • 18 December - William Lloyd, translator, 60

    • References

    1777 in Wales Wikipedia
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