1718 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1718 to Wales and its people.

← 1717 1716 1715 1714 1713 1718 in Wales → 1719 1720 1721 1722 1723
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1718 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George II)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach

Events

• February - Prince George William of Wales falls ill (later diagnosed as a heart disease); his parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are allowed by King George I to visit him at Kensington Palace, despite having been banished from the royal presence a few months earlier.[1]
• 11 July - Howell Davis, mate of the Cadogan, is captured by Edward England and decides join the pirates.[2] Davis would subsequently capture another Welsh sailor, Bartholomew Roberts, and turn him to piracy.
• 9 November - Theophilus Evans is ordained by the Bishop of St David's.[3]
• date unknown - The first permanent printing press in Wales is established at Adpar, Cardiganshire.[4]

Arts and literature

New books

• Ifan Gruffudd & Samuel Williams - Pedwar o Ganuau[5]
• Thomas Taylor - The Principality of Wales exactly described... (the first atlas of Wales to be published)[6]
• Alban Thomas - Cân o Senn i'w hen Feistr Tobacco[7]

Births

• July - William Jones, Methodist exhorter (died c.1773)[8]
• date unknown - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet (died 1794)[9]

Deaths

• 17 February - Prince George William of Wales, the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, aged three months
• 30 April - Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet,[10]
• 1 May - Robert Daniell, coloniser of The Carolinas, 71 or 72[11]
• 26 December - Mary Steele, wife of Sir Richard Steele, 40[12]
• date unknown
  • Sir Edward Broughton of Marchwiel, former High Sheriff of Denbighshire[13]
  • William Evans, dissenting minister[14]
  • Sir William Myddelton, 4th Baronet, of Chirk[15]

See also

• 1718 in Scotland

References

1. Van der Kiste, John (1997) George II and Queen Caroline. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. ISBN 0-7509-1321-5
2. Breverton, Terry (2003). The Book of Welsh Pirates and Buccaneers. Sain Tathan: Glyndwr Publishing. ISBN 1-903529-09-3.
3. Enid Pierce Roberts. "EVANS, THEOPHILUS". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
4. Sir William Llewelyn Davies. "CARTER , ISAAC". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
5. Meic Stephens (1998). Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru. University of Wales Press. p. 805. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.
6. National Library of Wales; M. Gwyneth Lewis (1977). The printed maps of Radnorshire, 1578-1900. The Library. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-901833-81-5.
7. Trysorfa y plant: cyhoeddiad misol i ieuenctyd (in Welsh). P.M. Evans. 1913. p. 35.
8. William Griffith. "JONES, WILLIAM". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
9. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "WILLIAMS, Sir HUGH". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
10. LEAVES OF A STUNTED SHRUB Vol Two. Richard Baldwin Cook. 2009. pp. 1–3. ISBN 978-0-9791257-6-8.
11. George William Logan (1874). A Record of the Logan Family of Charleston, South Carolina. pp. 16.
12. George Atherton Aitken (1968). The Life of Richard Steele. Ardent Media. p. 192.
13. A. H. Dodd. "BROUGHTON family of Marchwiel, Denbs". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
14. Thomas Richards. "EVANS, WILLIAM". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.
15. A. H. Dodd. "MYDDELTON". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 February 2017.