1770s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1770 - 1779 to Wales and its people.

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Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 1770 in Wales
• 1771 in Wales
• 1772 in Wales
• 1773 in Wales
• 1774 in Wales
• 1775 in Wales
• 1776 in Wales
• 1777 in Wales
• 1778 in Wales
• 1779 in Wales

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Churchyard - The Worthines of Wales, a Poem (1776)
• Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - Casgliad o Bregethau (1776)
• Williams Evans - A New English-Welsh dictionary: Containing All Words Necessary for Reading an English Author (1771)
• Elizabeth Griffith - The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated (1775)
• Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Duwdod Crist (1777)
• Jinny Jenks - Tour through Wales (1772)
• Dafydd Jones - Marwnad Enoch Ffransis (1774)
• Hugh Jones (Maesglasau)
  • Cydymaith yr Hwsmon (1774)
  • Gardd y Caniadau (1776)
• Robert Jones
  • Lleferydd yr Asyn (1770)
  • Drych i'r Anllythrennog (1778)
• Iolo Morganwg - Dagrau yr Awen (1772)
• Nicholas Owen - British Remains (1777)
• Thomas Pennant - British Zoology, vol. 4 (1777)
• David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân) - Allwydd y Nef. O gasgliad D.P. Off. (1776)
• Daniel Rowland - Pum Pregeth ac Amryw o Hymnau (1772)
• Nathaniel Williams - Dialogus (1778)
• William Williams Pantycelyn - Ductor Naptiarum: Neu Gyfarwyddwr Priodas (1777)
• Sir John Wynn - History of the Gwydir Family (posthumously published in 1770)

Music

• Dafydd Jones - Difyrrwch i'r Pererinion, vol. 3

Births

• 1770
  • 15 January - Sir John Edwards, Baronet, politician (died 1850)
  • 14 April - John Evans, explorer (died 1799)
  • 30 April - David Thompson, explorer (died 1857)
• 1772
  • 10 January - William Jenkins Rees, antiquary (died 1855)
  • July - Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), bard (died 1850)
  • 25 October - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (died 1840)
• 1773
  • 14 November - Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, military leader (died 1865)
• 1774
  • May - John Elias, preacher (died 1841)
  • 24 June - Azariah Shadrach, writer (died 1844)
• 1775
  • 25 November - Charles Kemble, actor (died 1854)
• 1776
  • April - Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer (died 1805)
  • 2 August - Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist and politician (died 1858)
• 1777
  • 15 June - David Daniel Davis, royal obstetrician (died 1841)
  • 29 August - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848)
  • 15 September - John Jones of Ystrad, MP (died 1842)
• 1778
  • 29 September - Benjamin Hall, industrialist and politician (died 1817)
• 1779
  • 24 August - Charles Norris, artist (died 1858)

Deaths

• 1771
  • 15 May - Thomas Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 43
  • date unknown
    • Lewis Hopkin, poet
    • Alban Thomas, doctor, librarian and antiquarian
    • Richard Trevor, former bishop of St David's
• 1772
  • 16 October - Richard Farrington, antiquary, 71
• 1773
  • 21 July - Howell Harris, Methodist leader, 59
• 1774
  • date unknown - Dafydd Nicolas, poet
• 1775
  • 14 August - Sir Lynch Cotton, 4th Baronet
• 1776
  • 1 November - Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76
  • date unknown - Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet (in debtors' prison)
• 1777
  • 4 March - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62
  • April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77
  • 1 July - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, 64
  • 30 August - Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer, 66
  • 18 December - William Lloyd, translator, 60
• 1778
  • 6 October - William Worthington, priest and author, 74
• 1779
  • 11 December - "Madam" Bridget Bevan, philanthropist, 81