1751 in Wales
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Events from the year 1751 in Wales.
Incumbent[]
- Monarch – George II
Events[]
- 20 April - George, eldest son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, succeeds his father as Prince of Wales.
- September - Richard Morris co-founds the Cymmrodorion Society in London.[1]
- inherits his brother's Caernarfonshire estate.
Arts and literature[]
New books[]
- William Williams (Pantycelyn) - Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 1[2]
Music[]
- William Williams (Pantycelyn) - Hosanna i Fab Dafydd, part 1
Births[]
- 22 January - David Richards (Dafydd Ionawr), poet (died 1827)
- 15 October - David Samwell (Dafydd Ddu Feddyg), naval surgeon, companion of Captain Cook and bard (died 1798)
Deaths[]
- 31 March - Frederick, Prince of Wales, 44 (pulmonary embolism)[3]
- 20 September - Anne Vaughan, Duchess of Bolton, 61/62[4]
- 2 October - Thomas Mathews, admiral, 75[5]
- 19 December - Princess Louise of Wales, queen of Denmark and Norway, 27[6]
References[]
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "MORRIS, RICHARD". Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "WILLIAMS, WILLIAM". Retrieved 14 June 2017.
- ^ "No. 9042". The London Gazette. 23 March 1750. p. 1.
- ^ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume II, page 213.
- ^ The Mat(t)hews Family: An Anthology of Mathews Lineages. 1970. p. 89.
- ^ The English Illustrated Magazine. Macmillan and Company. 1896. p. 309.
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