1766 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales; 1766 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Events from the year 1766 in Wales.

Incumbent[]

Monarch – George III

Events[]

19 February - Thomas Kymer is granted an Act of Parliament allowing him to construct the Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal.^[1]
12 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet, marries Margaret, daughter of Rev Hugh Wynn and heiress to the estate.
12 November - John, Lord Mountstuart marries Charlotte Jane, granddaughter of Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor.^[2]
unknown date - The Welsh-language periodical Yr Awstralydd is launched by William Meirion Evans in Australia.^[3]

Arts and literature[]

New books[]

English language[]

Anna Williams - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse^[4]

Welsh language[]

(ed.) - Cydymaith Diddan^[5]
- Drych y Cristion^[6]

Music[]

Elis Roberts - Oliffernes a Jiwdath^[7]

Paintings[]

Richard Wilson - Meleager and Atalanta

Births[]

March - William Turner, industrialist (died 1853)
6 December - Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet (died 1850)^[8]
25 December - Christmas Evans, preacher (died 1838)^[9]
unknown date - Martha Llwyd, hymnodist (died 1845)

Deaths[]

1 January - James Francis Edward Stuart, 77, nominally Prince of Wales from his birth until 1701^[10]
19 January - Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne, landowner^[11]
30 January - John Jeffreys, 59, politician^[12]
June - Evan Edwards, 32, harpist^[13]
17 November - Morgan Morgan, 78, Welsh-born American colonist (in America)^[14]

References[]

^ Joseph Priestley (1831). Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways of Great Britain: As a Reference to Nichols, Priestley & Walker's New Map of Inland Navigation. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. pp. 365.
^ Thomas Nicholas (1872). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales: Containing a Record of All Ranks of the Gentry ... with Many Ancient Pedigrees and Memorials of Old and Extinct Families. Longmans, Green, Reader. p. 619.
^ James Jupp; Director Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies James Jupp (October 2001). The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins. Cambridge University Press. p. 740. ISBN 978-0-521-80789-0.
^ Teresa Barnard (15 April 2016). Anna Seward: A Constructed Life: A Critical Biography. Routledge. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-317-18067-8.
^ Ffion Mair Jones (14 June 2010). 'The Bard is a Very Singular Character': Iolo Morganwg, Marginalia and Print Culture. University of Wales Press. p. 422. ISBN 978-1-78316-407-3.
^ Thomas Isfryn Jones. "ROBERTS, John (Siôn Robert Lewis; 1731-1806), author, almanack-maker, and hymn-writer". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
^ Gruffydd Glyn Evans. "ROBERTS, ELIS (d. 1789), cooper, ballad-writer, and composer of interludes". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
^ Stephen Joseph Williams. "WILLIAMS, ROBERT (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu; 1766-1850), poet". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
^ D. Densil Morgan (2008). Wales and the Word: Historical Perspectives on Religion and Welsh Identity. University of Wales Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-7083-2121-8.
^ Deborah C. Fisher (2006). Princes of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-7083-2003-7.
^ Morgan, Gerald (1993). "The Trawsgoed inheritance". Ceredigion. XII (1): 33.
^ "JEFFREYS, John (1706–66), of the Priory, Brecon, and Sheen, Surr". The History of Parliament (1715-1754). Retrieved 3 April 2016.
^ Robert David Griffith. "EDWARDS, EVAN (1734-1766), harpist". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
^ Callahan, James Morton (1912). Butcher, Bernard Lee (ed.). Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia. 3. Lewis Historical Publishers. p. 950.

[1] Joseph Priestley (1831). Historical Account of the Navigable Rivers, Canals, and Railways of Great Britain: As a Reference to Nichols, Priestley & Walker's New Map of Inland Navigation. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown & Green. pp. 365.

[2] Thomas Nicholas (1872). Annals and Antiquities of the Counties and County Families of Wales: Containing a Record of All Ranks of the Gentry ... with Many Ancient Pedigrees and Memorials of Old and Extinct Families. Longmans, Green, Reader. p. 619.

[3] James Jupp; Director Centre for Immigration and Multicultural Studies James Jupp (October 2001). The Australian People: An Encyclopedia of the Nation, Its People and Their Origins. Cambridge University Press. p. 740. ISBN 978-0-521-80789-0.

[4] Teresa Barnard (15 April 2016). Anna Seward: A Constructed Life: A Critical Biography. Routledge. p. 152. ISBN 978-1-317-18067-8.

[5] Ffion Mair Jones (14 June 2010). 'The Bard is a Very Singular Character': Iolo Morganwg, Marginalia and Print Culture. University of Wales Press. p. 422. ISBN 978-1-78316-407-3.

[6] Thomas Isfryn Jones. "ROBERTS, John (Siôn Robert Lewis; 1731-1806), author, almanack-maker, and hymn-writer". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 September 2019.

[7] Gruffydd Glyn Evans. "ROBERTS, ELIS (d. 1789), cooper, ballad-writer, and composer of interludes". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.

[8] Stephen Joseph Williams. "WILLIAMS, ROBERT (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu; 1766-1850), poet". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.

[9] D. Densil Morgan (2008). Wales and the Word: Historical Perspectives on Religion and Welsh Identity. University of Wales Press. p. 17. ISBN 978-0-7083-2121-8.

[10] Deborah C. Fisher (2006). Princes of Wales. University of Wales Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-7083-2003-7.

[11] Morgan, Gerald (1993). "The Trawsgoed inheritance". Ceredigion. XII (1): 33.

[12] "JEFFREYS, John (1706–66), of the Priory, Brecon, and Sheen, Surr". The History of Parliament (1715-1754). Retrieved 3 April 2016.

[13] Robert David Griffith. "EDWARDS, EVAN (1734-1766), harpist". Welsh Biography Online. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 11 March 2018.

[14] Callahan, James Morton (1912). Butcher, Bernard Lee (ed.). Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West Virginia. 3. Lewis Historical Publishers. p. 950.

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