1743 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales; 1743 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Events from the year 1743 in Wales.

Incumbent[]

January 2 - Edward Willes is consecrated Bishop of St David's.^[1]
April 21 - Thomas Herring becomes Archbishop of York and is replaced as Bishop of Bangor by Matthew Hutton. Both men go on to serve as Archbishop of Canterbury.^[2]
June 8 - William Bulkeley completes the first of his diaries.
November - John Thomas replaces Isaac Maddox as Bishop of St Asaph,^[3] but within a short time is translated to the bishopric of Lincoln and is himself replaced at St Asaph by Samuel Lisle.
date unknown
- William Williams (Pantycelyn) is refused ordination as a priest because of his Methodist activities; from this time on he commits himself entirely to the Methodist movement.
- A notable eisteddfod is held at Llansantffraid Glyn Ceiriog in Powys.^[4]
- Griffith Hughes returns from his travels in America and Barbados, and presents a hitherto unknown substance, asbestos, to the Royal Society.^[5]

May - Dafydd Siôn Siâms, musician, poet, and book-binder (died 1831)^[6]
2 May – William Parry, portrait painter (died 1791)
30 July - Philip Yorke, genealogist (died 1804)
date unknown
- Abraham Rees, encyclopaedist (died 1825)
- Sir John Stepney, 8th Baronet, politician (died 1811)

6 March - Arthur Bevan, barrister and husband of Bridget Bevan, 56^[7]
15 July - John Wynne, bishop, 85^[8]
date unknown
- Thomas Morgan, Deist theologian
- Robert Wynne, priest and academic

^ Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae. 1854. p. 305.
^ Sidney Leslie Ollard; Philip Charles Walker (21 March 2013). Archbishop Herring's Visitation Returns, 1743. Cambridge University Press. p. 32. ISBN 978-1-108-05877-3.
^ s. austin allibone (1876). A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors. p. 2388.
^ Wales (1870). Geirlyfr bywgraffiadol o enwogion Cymru, etc. [By I. Foulkes.]. I. Foulkes. p. 569.
^ Stearns, Raymond Phineas: Science in the British colonies of America, (Univ. of Illinois, 1970) p 357
^ Welsh Biography Online
^ Welsh Biography Online
^ Welsh Biography Online