1740 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1720s; 1730s; 1740s; 1750s; 1760s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1740 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Events from the year 1740 in Wales.

Incumbent[]

6 November - Charles Wesley records in his diary a visit to the family home at Cardiff.^[1]
date unknown - William Williams Pantycelyn becomes a deacon^[2] and is appointed curate to Theophilus Evans at Llanfaes.^[3]

23 February - Benjamin Evans, Congregational minister and author (died 1821)^[4]
26 December - John Williams (Ioan Rhagfyr), musician (died 1821)
date unknown - Sir Watkin Lewes, politician (died 1821)

3 April - Thomas Dominic Williams, Roman Catholic bishop, 78/9^[5]
7 August - Jane Brereton, poet, 55
3 October - Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford, politician, 76
20 October - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn, politician, 75?
date unknown
- Enoch Francis, Baptist
- John Morris, youngest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 34 (died at sea during an attack on Cartagena)^[6]

^ Daniel Williams. "GLASCOTT, CRADOCK (1743-1831), an Evangelical cleric". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
^ Evan David Evans (1976). A History of Wales, 1660-1815. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-0624-6.
^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "WILLIAMS, WILLIAM (1717-1791), Methodist cleric, author, and hymn-writer". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 August 2018.
^ Robert David Griffith. "WILLIAMS, JOHN (Ioan Rhagfyr; 1740-1821), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 November 2018.
^ "Bishop Thomas Dominic Williams, O.P." Catholic-Hierarchy.org. David M. Cheney. Retrieved 21 June 2011.
^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORRIS, JOHN (1706-1740), sailor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 29 November 2018.