1700s in Wales

Events

• Quaker emigrant Rowland Ellis is elected to represent Philadelphia in the provincial assembly.

• November - Humphrey Humphreys becomes Bishop of Hereford, and is replaced as Bishop of Bangor by John Evans.
• Humphrey Mackworth becomes MP for Cardiganshire.
• Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, is temporarily removed from his position after being found guilty of simony and maladministration.

• 23rd Regiment of Foot granted the title The Welsh Regiment of Fusiliers.

• Thomas Griffiths and a small group of followers settle at Welsh Tract, Delaware, where they found the Welsh Tract Baptist church.
• Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, marries Lady Essex Finch.

• Jane Kemeys marries Sir John Tynte, 2nd Baronet, resulting in an alliance between two important families and the beginning of the Kemeys-Tynte dynasty.
• July - Richard Vaughan of Corsygedol becomes Constable of Harlech Castle.

• George Bull becomes Bishop of St David's.

• Crickhowell Bridge rebuilt in stone.
• Humphrey Mackworth's company grants £20 a year towards a charity school at Esgair Hir mine in Cardiganshire, £30 a year towards a minister there, and £20 a year towards a charity school at Neath.

• Edmund Meyrick sets up a school at Carmarthen.
• Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, marries Cecil Mathew of Castell y Mynach in Pentyrch.

New books

• David Maurice - Cynffwrdd i'r gwan Gristion, neu'r gorsen ysig

• Ellis Wynne - Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc

• Robert Nelson - A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England

• Myles Davies - The Recantation of Mr. Pollett, a Roman priest
• Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus

• William Jones - Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos

• Edward Lhuyd - Archaeologia Britannica, vol. 1: Glossography

Births

• 8 March – William Morgan the elder, of Tredegar, politician
• date unknown - Guto Nyth Brân, legendary athlete
• probable – Lewis Evans, surveyor

• date unknown - Richard Trevor, bishop

• 20 May - Thomas Morgan, judge
• date unknown - Humphrey Owen, academic

• 2 February - Richard Morris, one of the celebrated Morris brothers of Anglesey
• probable - Henry Arthur Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis

• May - Ann Maddocks, the "maid of Cefn Ydfa"

• 6 May - William Morris, botanist, one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey

• 1 February - Frederick, Prince of Wales

• 8 December - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist
• date unknown - John Pettingall, antiquary

• date unknown
• *Joseph Hoare, academic
• *David Williams, schoolmaster

Deaths

• 27 June - Hugh Owen, Independent minister, 60?
• 11 July - William Williams, Speaker of the House of Commons, 66
• September – Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet, politician
• 8 December - Edward Harley, politician, 76
• 16 December - Thomas Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 36

• date unknown - Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet

• January - James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey, 31
• 25 March - Lewis Wogan, High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire, age unknown

• 10 May - Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, 62

• May - William Wynne, historian

• date unknown - Lionel Wafer, explorer, 65

• date unknown - Edward Ravenscroft, dramatist

• 1 December - William Wogan, politician

• 30 June - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist, 49

• 20 May - John Trevor lawyer and politician, expelled Speaker of the House of Commons, c.80

• 7 March - John Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 49
• 22 August - Sir Thomas Powell, 1st Baronet, politician, about 55
• 29 August - Charles Williams, merchant, 87

• 18 January - Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley, Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, 62
• 25 July - Rev Thomas Griffith, 80, first pastor of Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Delaware, USA.
• 29 November - William Jones, 49, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford.
• 15 December - Francis Edwardes, politician

• 4 March - Samuel Hallifax, Bishop of St Asaph, 57
• 20 March - Thomas Richards of Coychurch, cleric and lexicographer, 80
• 24 August - John Worgan, organist and composer, 66
• 16 October - Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader, c.79
• 5 November - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary, 65