1739 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1739 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
- Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Herring
- Bishop of Llandaff – Matthias Mawson
- Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox
- Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett
Events
- March - Diarist William Bulkeley of Brynddu is a bearer at the funeral of Richard Bulkeley, 5th Viscount Bulkeley, and leaves an account in his diary.
- 20 May - The roof of St Mary's Church, Swansea, collapses into the nave just before a Sunday morning service; the congregation is waiting outside for the officiating priest, who is running late.
- date unknown
- *Samuel and Nathaniel Buck tour Wales to produce the first of their prints of the country, following on from their prints of England.
- *A new parish church is completed at Willington Worthenbury near Wrexham, designed by Richard Trubshaw.
Arts and literature
New books
- Rowland Ellis - A Salutation to the Britains
- John Reynolds - ''The Scripture Genealogy and Display of Herauldry''
Births
- January - Thomas Edwards, dramatist and poet
- 14 March - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales
- 3 April - Hugh Davies, botanist
- date unknown - Richard Crawshay, industrialist
Deaths
- 5 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, 65
- 6 June - John Griffith, MP for Caernarvonshire, about 52