1736 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1736 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

17 April - Frederick, Prince of Wales, marries Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London.
4 July - Isaac Maddox is consecrated Bishop of St Asaph. Maddox continues to reside in south-east England and rarely visits the diocese.
28 July - John Harris, Bishop of Llandaff, becomes Dean of Wells Cathedral in succession to Isaac Maddox.
Thomas Frye paints the Prince of Wales for the Worshipful Company of Saddlers.
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*Sixty soldiers are drowned after their vessel is wrecked on the Wolves rocks near Flat Holm; the incident leads to the building of a lighthouse on the island.
*Howell Harris opens a school.
*Fortunatus Wright marries Mary, daughter of William Bulkeley, in Dublin.

Rees Ellis - "A Summer Carol"
Anthony Ellys - A Plea for the Sacramental Test as best Security for the Church established, and very conducive to the Welfare of the State
John Reynolds - ''Heraldry Displayed''

6 July - Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, soldier and politician, of Welsh ancestry
10 July - David Jones, Church of England priest and an early supporter of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism
31 August - David Ellis, clergyman, poet and transcriber of manuscripts
22 October - John Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian
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*Charles Morgan, politician
*Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough, politician