1700s in Wales

• Prince of Wales - George (from 1714) (later George II)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach (from 1714)

1700

• Quaker emigrant Rowland Ellis is elected to represent Philadelphia in the provincial assembly.

1701

• November - Humphrey Humphreys becomes Bishop of Hereford, and is replaced as Bishop of Bangor by John Evans.
• Humphrey Mackworth becomes MP for Cardiganshire.
• Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, is temporarily removed from his position after being found guilty of simony and maladministration.

1702

• 23rd Regiment of Foot granted the title The Welsh Regiment of Fusiliers.

1703

• Thomas Griffiths and a small group of followers settle at Welsh Tract, Delaware, where they found the Welsh Tract Baptist church.
• Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, marries Lady Essex Finch.

1704

• Jane Kemeys marries Sir John Tynte, 2nd Baronet, resulting in an alliance between two important families and the beginning of the Kemeys-Tynte dynasty.
• July - Richard Vaughan of Corsygedol becomes Constable of Harlech Castle.

1705

• George Bull becomes Bishop of St David's.

1706

• Crickhowell Bridge rebuilt in stone.
• Humphrey Mackworth's company grants £20 a year towards a charity school at Esgair Hir mine in Cardiganshire, £30 a year towards a minister there, and £20 a year towards a charity school at Neath.

1707

1708

• Edmund Meyrick sets up a school at Carmarthen.
• Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, marries Cecil Mathew of Castell y Mynach in Pentyrch.

1709

1702

• David Maurice - Cynffwrdd i'r gwan Gristion, neu'r gorsen ysig (translation from work of Theophilus Dorrington)

1703

• Ellis Wynne - Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc

1704

• Robert Nelson - A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England

1705

• Myles Davies - The Recantation of Mr. Pollett, a Roman priest
• Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus (the letters of Katherine Philips (posthumously published)

1706

• William Jones - Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos

1707

• Edward Lhuyd - Archaeologia Britannica, vol. 1: Glossography

1700

• March 8 – William Morgan the elder, of Tredegar, politician (d. 1731)
• date unknown - Guto Nyth Brân, legendary athlete (d. 1737)
• probable – Lewis Evans, surveyor (d. 1756)

1701

• date unknown - Richard Trevor, bishop (d. 1771)

1702

• May 20 - Thomas Morgan, judge (d. 1769)
• date unknown - Humphrey Owen, academic (d. 1768)

1703

• February 2 - Richard Morris, one of the celebrated Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1779)[1]
• probable - Henry Arthur Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis (d. 1772)

1704

• May - Ann Maddocks, the "maid of Cefn Ydfa" (d. 1727)

1705

• May 6 - William Morris, botanist, one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1763)

1707

• February 1 - Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 1751)

1708

• December 8 - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist (d. 1759)
• date unknown - John Pettingall, antiquary (d. 1781)

1709

• date unknown
  • Joseph Hoare, academic (d. 1802)
  • David Williams, schoolmaster (d. 1784)

1700

• June 27 - Hugh Owen, Independent minister, 60?
• July 11 - William Williams, Speaker of the House of Commons, 66
• September – Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet, politician
• December 8 - Edward Harley, politician, 76
• December 16 - Thomas Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 36 (smallpox)

1701

• date unknown - Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet (in a duel)

1702

• January - James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey, 31
• 25 March - Lewis Wogan, High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire, age unknown[2]

1703

• May 10 - Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, 62

1704

• May - William Wynne, historian

1705

• date unknown - Lionel Wafer, explorer, 65

1707

• date unknown - Edward Ravenscroft, dramatist

1708

• December 1 - William Wogan, politician

1709

• June 30 - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist, 49

1717

• May 20 - John Trevor lawyer and politician, expelled Speaker of the House of Commons, c.80