1759 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1759 to Wales and its people.

1759
in
Wales

Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1730s
  • 1740s
  • 1750s
  • 1760s
  • 1770s
See also:
1759 in
Great Britain
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

Events

  • 19 September - The Dowlais Iron Company is formed.
  • date unknown - Evan Davies resigns as head of the Welsh Academy, following a rift between the Presbyterian and Congregational Fund Boards.[1]

Arts and literature

New books

  • Blodeu-gerdd Cymry (ed. Dafydd Jones)
  • Mathias Maurice - Social Religion Exemplify'd[2]
  • John Wesley - Primitive Physick, translated by John Evans of Bala

Music

Births

Deaths

References

  1. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Davies, Evan (1694?-1770), Independent minister and tutor". Welsh Biography Online. Retrieved 30 March 2020.
  2. Gwilym Lleyn (1869). Cambrian Bibliography: Containing an Account of the Books Printed in the Welsh Language, Or Relating to Wales, from the Year 1546 to the End of the Eighteenth Century; with Biographical Notices. Printed and pub. by J. Pryse. pp. 455.
  3. Welsh Biography Online. Accessed 28 May 2014
  4. "William Aubrey". The National Library of Wales - Dictionary of Welsh Biography.
  5. The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: "Heylyn, John" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  6. Browne Willis (1801). Willis' Survey of St. Asaph, considerably enlarged and brought down to the present time. By E. Edwards. p. 152.
  7. Stewart, Mary Margaret. "Williams, Sir Charles Hanbury". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/29488. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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