1716 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1690s; 1700s; 1710s; 1720s; 1730s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1716 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1716 to Wales and its people.

Incumbent[]

January John Evans, Bishop of Bangor, is translated to Meath in Ireland, leaving Wales without any Welsh-speaking bishops for a prolonged period.^[1]
27 July Griffith Jones becomes rector of Llanddowror, under the patronage of his brother-in-law Sir John Philipps, 4th Baronet.^[2]
9 November – In London, Caroline of Ansbach, Princess of Wales, gives birth to a stillborn son, Prince Augustus George of Wales.^[3]

Myles Davies - Athenae Britannicae (six vols., London)^[4]
Welsh translation of works by Tertullian and Cyprian, probably by John Morgan of Matchin^[5]

26 January - Daniel Williams, theologian, 72?
8 May - Thomas Allgood I, originator of the japanning industry at Pontypool and Usk^[7]
29 September - David Edwards, Independent minister, 56^[8]
date unknown - Howell Powell, Congregational minister^[9]

^ Richard Brown (4 January 2002). Church and State in Modern Britain 1700-1850. Routledge. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-134-98270-7.
^ Jeremy Gregory; Jeffrey Scott Chamberlain (2003). The National Church in Local Perspective: The Church of England and the Regions, 1660-1800. Boydell Press. p. 277. ISBN 978-0-85115-897-6.
^ H. Eugene Lehman (13 October 2011). Lives of England's Reigning and Consort Queens. Author House. p. 539. ISBN 978-1-4634-3055-9.
^ John James Jones. "DAVIES, MYLES (or MILES) DAVIES (1662-1715?), religious controversialist and bibliographer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORGAN JOHN ('John Morgan of Matchin', 1688? - 1734?),". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "DAVIES, HOWEL (c.1716-1770), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
^ Robert Stephen. "ALLGOOD family, of Pontypool and Usk". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
^ Thomas Eurig Davies. "EDWARDS, DAVID (1660-1716), Independent minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
^ John Dyfnallt Owen. "POWELL, HOWELL (d. 1716), Congregational minister". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.