1778 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1750s; 1760s; 1770s; 1780s; 1790s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1778 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1778 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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- A furnace is built at Sirhowy by Thomas Atkinson and William Barrow of London. This is the first stage of the Tredegar ironworks.[1]
- Elizabeth Baker leaves her job as secretary to Hugh Vaughan at Hengwrt to live in the adjoining house of Doluwcheogryd.[2]

Blind harpist John Parry and his son David play Handel's choruses on two Welsh harps at the court of King George III of Great Britain.[4]

21 August - Lewis Weston Dillwyn, porcelain manufacturer, naturalist and politician (died 1855)[5]
September - William Howels, preacher (died 1832)[6]
29 September - Benjamin Hall, industrialist and politician (died 1817)[7]
20 November - Thomas Williams (Gwilym Morgannwg), poet (died 1835)[8]
24 November - Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, admiral (died 1845)[9]
date unknown - David Rowlands, naval surgeon (died 1846)

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"Thomas Pennant, A tour in Wales". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 4 October 2018.
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Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Dillwyn family". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Howells, William" . Dictionary of National Biography. 28. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
David Williams. "Hall, Benjamin (1778-1817), industrialist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
Thomas John Morgan. "Williams, Thomas (Gwilym Morgannwg; 1778-1835), poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 January 2020.
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Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological Society. 1914. p. 104.

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