1786 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1760s; 1770s; 1780s; 1790s; 1800s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1786 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1786 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

25 December - Plymouth ironworks is leased to Richard Hill.
The Kinmel estate is sold to the Rev Edward Hughes for £42,000.[1]
Abraham Rees completes his edition of Chambers 's Encyclopaedia, and is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his work.
Charles Pratt is created Earl Camden.

David Samwell - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook
Hester Lynch Piozzi - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life[2]
Helen Maria Williams - Poems[3]

William Ellis - Ychydig o Hymnau a Chaniadau Newyddion (collection of hymns)[4]
Benjamin Francis - Aleluia (collection of hymns)

21 January - Anthony Bacon, ironmaster, 67
2 July (bur.) - John Ystumllyn, gardener, "first well-recorded black person of North Wales"
16 September - Edward Parry, poet and hymn-writer, 63

H. J. Habakkuk (1994). Marriage, Debt, and the Estates System: English Landownership, 1650-1950. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-820398-8.
Hester Lynch Piozzi (1786). Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: during the last twenty years of his life. Printed for T. Cadell.
Kennedy, Deborah, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press (June 2002). ISBN 0-8387-5511-9.
Y Bywgraffiadur Cymreig hyd 1940. Paratowyd dan nawdd Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorion. Anrhydeddus Gymdeithas y Cymmrodorioa. 1953.

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