1718 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1718 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera)
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby
- Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly
- Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler
- Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne
- Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley
Events
- February - Prince George William of Wales falls ill ; his parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are allowed by King George I to visit him at Kensington Palace, despite having been banished from the royal presence a few months earlier.
- 11 July - Howell Davis, mate of the Cadogan, is captured by Edward England and decides join the pirates. Davis would subsequently capture another Welsh sailor, Bartholomew Roberts, and turn him to piracy.
- 9 November - Theophilus Evans is ordained by the Bishop of St David's.
- date unknown - The first permanent printing press in Wales is established at Adpar, Cardiganshire.
Arts and literature
New books
- Ifan Gruffudd & Samuel Williams - Pedwar o Ganuau
- Thomas Taylor - The Principality of Wales exactly described...
- Alban Thomas - ''Cân o Senn i'w hen Feistr Tobacco''
Births
- July - William Jones, Methodist exhorter
- date unknown - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet
Deaths
- 17 February - Prince George William of Wales, the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, aged three months
- 30 April - Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet,
- 1 May - Robert Daniell, coloniser of The Carolinas, 71 or 72
- 26 December - Mary Steele, wife of Sir Richard Steele, 40
- date unknown
- *Sir Edward Broughton of Marchwiel, former High Sheriff of Denbighshire
- *William Evans, dissenting minister
- *Sir William Myddelton, 4th Baronet, of Chirk