1766 in Wales

1766
in
Wales

Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1740s
  • 1750s
  • 1760s
  • 1770s
  • 1780s
See also:
1766 in
Great Britain
Ireland
Scotland

Events from the year 1766 in Wales.

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

English language

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

Births

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

  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.
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