1710 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1710 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

21 March - A verdict is given in the trial of High Church clergyman Henry Sacheverell, leading to riots breaking out in a number of places, including Wrexham, where a rabble breaks the windows of dissenters' homes and their meeting house.
10 June - Watkin Williams-Wynn, heir to a baronetcy, establishes the "Cycle of the White Rose", a Jacobite group, in North Wales.
30 September - John Ellis becomes Rector of Llandwrog and is made a canon of Bangor Cathedral.
October/November - In the 1710 British general election:
*John Meyrick becomes MP for Cardigan Boroughs.
*Sir Thomas Powell, 1st Baronet, becomes MP for Carmarthenshire.
*Sir Edward Stradling, 5th Baronet, becomes MP for Cardiff.
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*John Wynne obtains permission from the bishop's court to change the name of Trelawnyd to "Newmarket", in his quest to make it a centre of the lead industry.
*A committee of the House of Commons declares Sir Humphrey Mackworth guilty of "many notorious and scandalous frauds". These included secretly diverting shares into his own account and using the proceeds to pay his own expenses.
*A Visitation of the Archdeaconry of Carmarthen to Llandissilio finds that, out of about 120 families in the parish, 40 attend church at Easter, 20 at Whitsuntide and 20 at Christmas and notes that "the Minister suffers in his reputation for being addicted to drinking and swearing".
*William Fleetwood, Bishop of St Asaph, encourages his clergy to preach in the Welsh language.