1766 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales; 1766 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Events from the year 1766 in Wales.

Incumbents

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

Events

19 February - Thomas Kymer is granted an Act of Parliament allowing him to construct the Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal.[1]
12 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet, marries Margaret, daughter of Rev Hugh Wynn and heiress to the Bodysgallen estate.
12 November - John, Lord Mountstuart marries Charlotte Jane, granddaughter of Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor.[2]
unknown date - The Welsh-language periodical Yr Awstralydd is launched by William Meirion Evans in Australia.[3]

Arts and literature

English language

Anna Williams - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse[4]

Welsh language

David Jones of Trefriw (ed.) - Cydymaith Diddan[5]
John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - Drych y Cristion[6]

Music

Elis Roberts - Oliffernes a Jiwdath[7]

Paintings

Richard Wilson - Meleager and Atalanta

Births

March - William Turner, industrialist (died 1853)
6 December - Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet (died 1850)[8]
25 December - Christmas Evans, preacher (died 1838)
Martha Llwyd, hymnodist (died 1845)

Deaths

1 January - James Francis Edward Stuart, 77, nominally Prince of Wales from his birth until 1701[9]
19 January - Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne, landowner*Morgan, Gerald (1993). "The Trawsgoed inheritance". Ceredigion. XII (1): 33.CS1 maint: ref=harv (link)
30 January - John Jeffreys, 59, politician[10]
June - Evan Edwards, 32, harpist[11]
17 November - Morgan Morgan, 78, Welsh-born American colonist (in America)[12]

References

Joseph Priestley (1831). Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways of Great Britain: As a Reference to Nichols, Priestley & Walker's New Map of Inland Navigation,. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. pp. 365.
Thomas Nicholas (1872). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales: Containing a Record of All Ranks of the Gentry ... with Many Ancient Pedigrees and Memorials of Old and Extinct Families. Longmans, Green, Reader. p. 619.
James Jupp; Director Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies James Jupp (October 2001). The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins. Cambridge University Press. p. 740. ISBN 978-0-521-80789-0.
Teresa Barnard (15 April 2016). Anna Seward: A Constructed Life: A Critical Biography. Routledge. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-317-18067-8.
Ffion Mair Jones (14 June 2010). 'The Bard is a Very Singular Character': Iolo Morganwg, Marginalia and Print Culture. University of Wales Press. p. 422. ISBN 978-1-78316-407-3.
Thomas Isfryn Jones. "ROBERTS, John (Siôn Robert Lewis; 1731-1806), author, almanack-maker, and hymn-writer". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
Gruffydd Glyn Evans. "ROBERTS, ELIS (d. 1789), cooper, ballad-writer, and composer of interludes". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
Stephen Joseph Williams. "WILLIAMS, ROBERT (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu; 1766-1850), poet". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
Deborah C. Fisher (2006). Princes of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-7083-2003-7.
"JEFFREYS, John (1706–66), of the Priory, Brecon, and Sheen, Surr". The History of Parliament (1715-1754). Retrieved 3 April 2016.
Robert David Griffith. "EDWARDS, EVAN (1734-1766), harpist". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
Callahan, James Morton (1912). Butcher, Bernard Lee (ed.). Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia. 3. Lewis Historical Publishers. p. 950.

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[1] Joseph Priestley (1831). Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways of Great Britain: As a Reference to Nichols, Priestley & Walker's New Map of Inland Navigation,. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. pp. 365.

[2] Thomas Nicholas (1872). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales: Containing a Record of All Ranks of the Gentry ... with Many Ancient Pedigrees and Memorials of Old and Extinct Families. Longmans, Green, Reader. p. 619.

[3] James Jupp; Director Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies James Jupp (October 2001). The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins. Cambridge University Press. p. 740. ISBN 978-0-521-80789-0.

[4] Teresa Barnard (15 April 2016). Anna Seward: A Constructed Life: A Critical Biography. Routledge. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-317-18067-8.

[5] Ffion Mair Jones (14 June 2010). 'The Bard is a Very Singular Character': Iolo Morganwg, Marginalia and Print Culture. University of Wales Press. p. 422. ISBN 978-1-78316-407-3.

[6] Thomas Isfryn Jones. "ROBERTS, John (Siôn Robert Lewis; 1731-1806), author, almanack-maker, and hymn-writer". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 September 2019.

[7] Gruffydd Glyn Evans. "ROBERTS, ELIS (d. 1789), cooper, ballad-writer, and composer of interludes". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.

[8] Stephen Joseph Williams. "WILLIAMS, ROBERT (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu; 1766-1850), poet". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.

[9] Deborah C. Fisher (2006). Princes of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-7083-2003-7.

[10] "JEFFREYS, John (1706–66), of the Priory, Brecon, and Sheen, Surr". The History of Parliament (1715-1754). Retrieved 3 April 2016.

[11] Robert David Griffith. "EDWARDS, EVAN (1734-1766), harpist". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.

[12] Callahan, James Morton (1912). Butcher, Bernard Lee (ed.). Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia. 3. Lewis Historical Publishers. p. 950.