1740s in Wales

Arts and literature

New books

• John Dyer - The Ruins of Rome
• Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) - Welsh Piety
• Zachariah Williams - The Mariners Compass Completed

• Jane Brereton - Poems on several occasions

• Anna Williams - Life of the Emperor Julian

• Zachariah Williams - ''A True Narrative of certain Circumstances relating to Zachariah Williams in the Charterhouse''

Music

• Howell Harris - Llyfr o Hymneu o Waith Amryw Awdwyr

• Howell Harris & Daniel Rowland - Sail, Dibenion, a Rheolau'r Societies

• William Williams Pantycelyn - ''Aleluia''

Births

• date unknown - Sir Watkin Lewes, politician

• January 16 - Hester Thrale, diarist and friend of Dr Johnson
• August 20 - Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon
• September 3 - Owen Jones, antiquary

• September 26 - Thomas Jones, landscape painter
• December 3 - Sir Erasmus Gower, naval commander

• February 14 - David Davis (Castellhywel), poet

• September 28 - William Jones, philologist

• January - Richard Fenton, poet and author

• September 1 - Thomas Johnes, landowner

• September 23 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician

Deaths

• August 7 - Jane Brereton, poet, 55
• October 20 - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn, politician, 75?

• August - David Owen, 29, harpist,
• date unknown
• *Wil Hopcyn, poet, 41?
• *Robert Roberts, theologian, 61?

• July 15 - John Wynne, bishop, 83?
• date unknown
• *Thomas Morgan, Deist theologian
• *Robert Wynne, clergyman and academic

• March 2 - William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, Jacobite, husband of Winifred Herbert

• May 7 - Sir Thomas Hanmer, politician and literary editor, 68

• May 21 - Lewis Morris, Welsh-descended Governor of New Jersey, 74

• August 27 - Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet, 53

• May - Winifred Herbert, Countess of Nithsdale, 58?
• August - Angharad James, poet, 72
• September 26 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, 57