1776 in Wales
This article is about the significance of the year 1776 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Wynn
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford ; George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
- Bishop of Bangor – John Moore
- Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington
- Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley
- Bishop of St Davids – James Yorke
Events
- 4 July – United States Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia. Sixteen of the 56 signatories are of Welsh descent, Francis Lewis having been born in Llandaff.
- 22 July – Sir Richard Philipps, 7th Baronet, is created 1st Baron Milford in the peerage of Ireland.
- 24 August – Herbert Mackworth is created a baronet.
- dates unknown
- *John, Lord Mountstuart is created Baron Cardiff of Cardiff Castle.
- *Sir Thomas Wynn, 3rd Baronet, is created Baron Newborough in the Peerage of Ireland.
Arts and literature
New books
- Thomas Churchyard – The Worthines of Wales, a Poem
- Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) – Casgliad o Bregethau
- Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) – Gardd y Caniadau
- David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân) – ''Allwydd y Nef. O gasgliad D.P. Off.''
Music
- Aaron Williams - Collection of hymn-tunes
Births
- 18 February – John Parry, composer
- April – Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer
- 2 August – Thomas Assheton Smith II, landowner, industrialist, politician, and sportsman
- 20 October – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet, politician
- dates unknown
- *John Bryan
- *William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament
Deaths
- 26 January – Evan Lloyd, poet, 41
- 6 April – Hugh Hughes, poet, 83
- 4 July – Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet
- 6 September – Joshua Parry, Nonconformist minister and writer, 67
- 1 November – Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76
- December – John Edwards, poet, 76/77
- 10 December – Robert Hay Drummond, Bishop of St Asaph 1748–1761, 65
- dates unknown
- *William Evans, lexicographer, age unknown
- *Aaron Williams, composer, about 45