1728 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1728 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

4 February - Thomas Sherlock is consecrated Bishop of Bangor.
August - Richard Smalbroke, Bishop of St Davids, commends the treatise on the authority of Scripture by Faustus Socinus, with the result that the work is translated into English and published in 1731 with a dedication to the Queen, Caroline of Ansbach.
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*The Coronet of Frederick, Prince of Wales, is made, probably by royal goldsmith Samuel Shales, at a cost of £140 5/-
*Poet John Morgan becomes vicar of Matching, Essex, which leads to his commonly being known as John Morgan Matchin.
*Main Street North Wales, Pennsylvania, originally an old Indian trail, is laid out as the "Great Road".
*Watkin Williams-Wynn, the future 3rd Baronet, is mayor of Oswestry.

Richard Lewis, Muscipula, a translation of Edward Holdsworth's Latin satire on the Welsh
John Roderick, ''Grammadeg Cymraeg''

The traditional Welsh folk tune, "The Ash Grove", or something very similar, is featured in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.

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* John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson, English industrialist, owner of Bersham Ironworks and Brymbo Hall
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* Daines Barrington, judge in North Wales