1774 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1774 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 - William Vaughan
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Robert Clive
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
- Bishop of Bangor – John Ewer John Moore
- Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington
- Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley
- Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss ; James Yorke
Events
- July - Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband on a visit to North Wales.
- unknown dates
- *John Wilkinson takes out a patent for cannon-boring at his works in Bersham.
- *An Act of Parliament establishes the Improvement Commissioners, responsible for paving, cleaning streets and providing oil lamp lighting in Cardiff.
- *Construction work is completed on Morris Castle, "Wales's first block of flats".
- *Edward Jones, an "exhorter" at Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields, and a lay preacher, begins holding Welsh-language services in Cock Lane, Smithfield, London.
Arts and literature
New books
- Hugh Hughes - Rheolau Bywyd Dynol (translation of Robert Dodsley's The Oeconomy of Human Life
- Dafydd Jones - Marwnad Enoch Ffransis
- Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) - ''Cydymaith yr Hwsmon''
Music
- William Williams Pantycelyn - ''Ychydig Hymnau''
Paintings
- Thomas Jones - The Bard
- Richard Wilson - ''Llyn y Cau, Cadair Idris''
Births
- 16 January - Daniel Evans, independent minister
- May - John Elias, preacher
- 24 June - Azariah Shadrach, writer
- date unknown - Sir John Waters, military commander
Deaths
- 13 January - John Pugh Pryse, politician, 34
- 4 July - William Price, High Sheriff of Merionethshire and Caernarvonshire, 84
- 28 October - John Ewer, Bishop of Bangor, about 70
- date unknown
- *Rowland Jones, philologist, 57
- *Dafydd Nicolas, poet