1750s in Wales

Arts and literature

New books

• Griffith Hughes - Natural History of Barbados
• Daniel Rowland - Ymddiddan rhwng Methodist Uniawngred ac un Cyfeiliornus

• Theophilus Evans - A History of Modern Enthusiasm

• John Dyer - The Fleece
• Elizabeth Griffith - A Series of Genuine Letters between Henry and Frances
• Joseph Harris - An Essay Upon Money and Coins
• Joshua Thomas - ''Tystiolaeth y Credadyn''

Music

• William Williams (Pantycelyn) - Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 1

• William Williams (Pantycelyn) - Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 2

• Morgan Rhys - Golwg o Ben Nebo, ar Wlad yr Addewid

• Elis Roberts - "Argulus"

• Elis Roberts - "Jeils"

• William Williams (Pantycelyn) - ''Rhai Hymnau a Chaniadau Duwiol''

Births

• June - William Morgan, actuary

• 22 January - David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr), poet
• 15 October - David Samwell, naval surgeon and companion of Captain Cook

• 2 January - Nicholas Owen, priest and antiquary
• 18 January - Josiah Boydell, painter
• March - Edward Jones, harpist
• date unknown
• *Richard Llwyd, poet and writer
• *Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist

• date unknown - Charles Hassall, surveyor

• 22 February - Henry Nevill, 2nd Earl of Abergavenny
• 5 July - Sarah Siddons, actress
• 14 October - Thomas Charles of Bala, priest

• 7 June - Edward Davies, writer
• 23 June - Thomas Jones, mathematician
• date unknown - Thomas Jones of Denbigh, minister and author

• date unknown - Sir Thomas Foley, admiral

• August - Sir Thomas Picton, soldier

• 16 March - Sir John Nicholl, politician and judge
• 7 August - William Owen Pughe, lexicographer
• 18 October - Theophilus Jones, historian

Deaths

• 9 January - Henry Herbert, 9th Earl of Pembroke, 56
• 29 November - Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel
• date unknown - Sir Samuel Pennant, Lord Mayor of London

• 31 March - Frederick, Prince of Wales, 44
• date unknown - Thomas Mathews, admiral, 75

• 31 May - "Madam" Sidney Griffith, Methodist supporter

• 10 January - Erasmus Lewis, writer and civil servant, 83
• March - Henry Vaughan, Radnorshire landowner, 33
• 12 July - Zachariah Williams, inventor, 81

• 30 June - Edward Wynne, lawyer and landowner

• date unknown - Lewis Evans, surveyor, 56?

• December - John Dyer, poet, 56

• 24 January - William Wogan, religious writer, 79
• 18 March - Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury and former Bishop of Bangor, 65
• 24 March - Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet, 53

• 11 August - John Heylyn, Welsh-descended priest, 74
• 2 November - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist, 50
• date unknown - Isaac Maddox, Bishop of St Asaph, 62