1711 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1711 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley
- Lord Lieutenant of South Wales – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
- Bishop of Bangor – John Evans
- Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler
- Bishop of St Asaph – William Fleetwood
- Bishop of St Davids – Philip Bisse
Events
- 23 August - Baptist minister Rev Abel Morgan is seen off by his congregation at Rhydwilim prior to embarking for a future in America.
- 23 September - Christmas Samuel is ordained at the request of his congregation at Panteg.
- unknown date
- *Thomas Durston begins printing Welsh language books at Shrewsbury.
- *Newtown Square Friends Meeting House is founded by Welsh immigrants in the Great Valley of Pennsylvania.
- *Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford, becomes Custos Rotulorum of Montgomeryshire.
Arts and literature
New books
- Jonathan Edwards - A Vindication of the Doctrine of Original Sin from the exceptions of Dr. Daniel Whitby
- William Jones - Analysis per quantitatum series, fluxiones ac differentias
- ''Y Llyfr Gweddi Gyffredin y Cydymaith Goreu: Yn y Tŷ a'r Stafell''
Births
- approximate date
- *Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer
- *Josiah Owen, Presbyterian minister and controversialist
- *Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader