1745 in Wales

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 – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – vacant
• Bishop of Bangor – Matthew Hutton
• Bishop of Llandaff – John Gilbert
• Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Lisle
• Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor

Events

• Following the failure of the Jacobite Rebellion, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, is suspected of involvement and seeks protection from his father-in-law, Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort.

Arts and literature

New books

• Anonymous
• *An Expostulatory Epistle to the Welsh Knight..., etc
• *''An Apology for the Welsh Knight..., etc''

Music

• Ancient British Music, Part 2

Births

• 13 January – Robert Jones, Rhoslan, writer
• 14 February – David Davis (Castellhywel), poet
• 15 July – Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet, industrialist
• date unknown – Thomas Redmond, artist

Deaths

• 22 October – William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis, 80
• date unknown – Erasmus Lewes, Anglican clergyman