1731 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1731 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales – George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar; Thomas Morgan
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
- Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Sherlock
- Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris
- Bishop of St Asaph – Francis Hare
- Bishop of St Davids – Richard SmalbrokeElias Sydall
Events
- April - Trader Robert Jenkins has his ear cut off by Spanish coast guards in Cuba leading to the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1739.
- September 22 - Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) writes to the SPCK proposing that a Welsh school be set up at Llanddowror. This marks the beginning of the circulating schools movement.
Arts and literature
New books
- Humphrey Lhuyd - Britannicae Descriptionis Commentariolum
- Edward Samuel - ''Athrawiaeth yr Eglwys''
Other
- 23 April - Henry Fielding's latest work, The Welsh Opera, is performed in Haymarket. It includes personal attacks on Frederick, Prince of Wales.
Births
- 20 May - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), poet
- date unknown
- *Siôn Robert Lewis, author and hymn-writer
- *Aaron Williams, composer
Deaths
- January - Thomas Jones of Lincoln's Inn, founder of the Honourable and Loyal Society of Antient Britons
- 6 April - David Lloyd, Welsh-born American lawyer, 74
- 24 April - William Morgan of Tredegar (the elder), Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, 31
- September - Rowland Ellis, Quaker leader, 81
- 4 September - John Roberts, MP for Denbigh, 59?
- 9 October - William Stanley, Dean of St Asaph, 85