1730s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1730–1739 to Wales and its people.
Arts and literature
New books
1730- Joseph Harris - A Treatise on Navigation
- James Lewis & Christmas Samuel - Y Cyfrif Cywiraf o'r Pechod Gwreiddiol
- William Wotton - Cyfreithjeu Hywel Dda ac eraill, seu Leges Wallicae
- Humphrey Lhuyd - Britannicae Descriptionis Commentariolum
- Edward Samuel - Athrawiaeth yr Eglwys
- David Evans - The Minister of Christ and his Flock
- Jeremy Owen - Golwg ar y Beiau
- Edmund Curll - ''The Life of Robert Price... one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas''
Births
1731- date unknown - Siôn Robert Lewis, author and hymn-writer
- 5 October - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, lawyer and politician
- 3 July - Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke
- 24 October - Thomas Henry, apothecary
- date unknown - Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough, politician
- 13 May - Thomas Williams of Llanidan, industrialist
- 31 August - Princess Augusta, eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales
- date unknown - Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, politician and slave-owner
- 4 June - Prince George, eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales
- date unknown - David Williams, philosopher
- 14 March - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales
- date unknown
- *Richard Crawshay, industrialist
- *Thomas Edwards, dramatist and poet
Deaths
1730- August - Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet, 21
- December - Owen Gruffydd, poet
- date unknown - Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, politician
- 6 April - David Lloyd, Welsh-born American lawyer
- September - Rowland Ellis, Quaker leader
- 2 February - Robert Price, judge, 79
- 22 January - Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
- date unknown
- *John Morgan, poet
- *Sir Robert Myddelton, 5th Baronet
- *John Myddelton of Chirk Castle, politician
- 2 June - Francis Gwyn, politician, 85?
- 14 June - John Hanbury, industrialist, 70?
- 13 July - Ellis Wynne, clergyman and writer, 63
- 14 February - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, 52
- 20 November - Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, consort of King George II of Great Britain and former Princess of Wales, 54
- date unknown - Guto Nyth Brân, legendary athlete, 37
1739