1782 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1760s; 1770s; 1780s; 1790s; 1800s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1782 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1782 to Wales and its people.

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March - Lloyd Kenyon is appointed Attorney-General.^[1]
12 April - In the Battle of the Saintes, the British fleet defeat the French after a campaign in which Admiral Sir Thomas Foley has played a major part.^[2]
27 September - Francis Homfray leases a mill from Anthony Bacon of Cyfarthfa ironworks. (Under the terms of a new Parliamentary Act, Bacon, as an MP, is disqualified from holding government munitions contracts.)
William Owen Pughe and Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn) meet in London.
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William Gilpin - Observations on the River Wye and several parts of South Wales, etc. relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the summer of the year 1770^[3]
Thomas Pennant - Journey to Snowdon, volume 1
John Walters - Translated Specimens of Welsh Poetry

William Williams Pantycelyn - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion (second in a series of hymn collections)^[4]

March - John Evans, anti-Methodist clergyman, 79
27 April - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, politician, 71^[6]
15 May - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54^[7]
25 August - Lady Catherine Hamilton, formerly Catherine Barlow of Colby, heiress to an estate in south Pembrokeshire which passed to her nephew Charles Francis Greville^[8]
November - John Parry, harpist, 72?

^ Michael Levey; Sir Thomas Lawrence; National Portrait Gallery (Great Britain) (1979). Sir Thomas Lawrence, 1769-1830. National Portrait Gallery.
^ William Stewart (9 September 2009). Admirals of the World: A Biographical Dictionary, 1500 to the Present. McFarland. pp. 131–. ISBN 978-0-7864-8288-7.
^ William Gilpin (2005). Observations on the River Wye. Pallas Athene. ISBN 978-1-84368-004-8.
^ "The Printed Works of William Williams, Pantycelyn". National Library of Wales. Retrieved 22 October 2018.
^ Sir William Nott (1854). Memoirs and correspondence of Major-General Sir William Nott. Hurst and Blackett. pp. 297–.
^ John Debrett (1814). England: 1. G. Woodfall. p. 281.
^ William George Constable (1953). Richard Wilson. Routledge & Kegan Paul. p. 15.
^ Thomas M. McCoog (2003). Promising Hope: Essays on the Suppression and Restoration of the English Province of the Society of Jesus. Institutum Historicum Societatis Iesu. ISBN 978-88-7041-597-1.