1731 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1731 to Wales and its people.
Incumbent[]
Events[]
- April - Trader Robert Jenkins has his ear cut off by Spanish coast guards in Cuba leading to the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1739.[1]
- September 22 - Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) writes to the SPCK proposing that a Welsh school be set up at Llanddowror. This marks the beginning of the circulating schools movement.
Arts and literature[]
New books[]
- Humphrey Lhuyd - Britannicae Descriptionis Commentariolum[2]
- Edward Samuel - Athrawiaeth yr Eglwys[3]
Other[]
- 23 April - Henry Fielding's latest work, The Welsh Opera, is performed in Haymarket. It includes personal attacks on the Prince of Wales.[4]
Births[]
- 20 May - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), poet (died 1788)
- date unknown
- , author and hymn-writer (died 1806)
- Aaron Williams, composer (died 1776)
Deaths[]
- 6 April - David Lloyd, Welsh-born American lawyer, 74
- 24 April - William Morgan of Tredegar (the elder), 31
- September - Rowland Ellis, Quaker leader, 81 (in America)
- 4 September - John Roberts, MP for Denbigh, 59?
- 9 October - William Stanley, Dean of St Asaph, 84
- date unknown - Thomas Jones of Lincoln's Inn, founder of the Honourable and Loyal Society of Antient Britons
References[]
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 303. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Robert Watt (1824). Bibliotheca Britannica: Authors. A. Constable. p. 604.
- ^ 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. Printed and pub. by J. Pryse. pp. 358.
- ^ Loftis, John. The Politics of Drama in Augustan England. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963. p. 105
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