1768 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1768 to Wales and its people..

Incumbents

2 March - Rowland Pugh, a local miner, discovers the "Great Lode" of copper on Parys Mountain and is rewarded with a bottle of whisky and a rent-free house for his lifetime.
By May - Kymer's Canal opens.
16 May - Evan Lloyd is fined £50 after being found guilty of libel against William Price.
24 August - A seminary is founded at Trefeca-isaf for the training of evangelical preachers, with financial assistance from Selina, Countess of Huntingdon.
10 December - Richard Wilson is a founder member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
Oldest Jews' burial ground in Wales established at Swansea.
The Ladies of Llangollen meet for the first time in Ireland.
Controversial Bishop of Bangor John Egerton is translated to the see of Lichfield in England.

John Griffith - ''Some Brief Remarks upon Sundry Important Subjects... principally addressed to the... Quakers... ''

14 May - In Dublin, a concert takes place for the benefit of "Jones", a resident of Britain Street, where music will be performed on "that most admired instrument, the Welsh Harp".

14 March - Owen Rees, Calvinist minister, 50/51
26 March - Humphrey Owen, academic, 65
13 May - Princess Louisa, daughter of the former Prince and Princess of Wales, 19
31 August - Henrietta Nevill, Baroness Bergavenny, 38
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*Robert Morris, industrialist
*Hannah Pritchard, actress