1766 in Wales
Encyclopedia
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1766 to Wales
and its people
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Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
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Incumbents
- Prince of WalesPrince of WalesPrince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
- George, Prince RegentGeorge IV of the United KingdomGeorge IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later... - Princess of WalesPrincess of WalesPrincess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
- vacant
Events
- February 19 - Thomas Kymer is granted an Act of Parliament allowing him to construct the Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal.
- May 12 - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet, marries Margaret, daughter of Rev Hugh Wynn and heiress to the Bodysgallen estate.
- John, Lord MountstuartJohn Stuart, 1st Marquess of ButeJohn Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute, PC, FRS was a British nobleman.He was the son of the 3rd Earl of Bute and the former Mary Wortley Montagu, a granddaughter of the 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull and great-granddaughter of the 1st Earl of Sandwich...
marries Charlotte Jane, granddaughter of Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor.
New books
- David Jones of Trefriw (ed.) - Cydymaith Diddan
- John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - Drych y Cristion
- Anna WilliamsAnna WilliamsAnna Williams may refer to:*Anna Eliza Williams, , supercentenarian and oldest person in the world upon her death*Anna Wessels Williams, pioneering female doctor and bacteriologist who helped develop the diphtheria antitoxin...
- Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
Births
- March - William TurnerWilliam TurnerWilliam Turner MA was an English divine and reformer, a physician and a natural historian. He studied medicine in Italy, and was a friend of the great Swiss naturalist, Conrad Gessner...
, industrialist (d. 1853) - December 6 - Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet (d. 1850)
- December 25 - Christmas EvansChristmas EvansChristmas Evans was a Welsh Nonconformist minister, regarded as one of the greatest preachers in the history of Wales....
, preacher (d. 1838)