1740s in Wales explained

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1740–1749 to Wales and its people.

Events

1740 in Wales

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1742 in Wales

1743 in Wales

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1745 in Wales

1746 in Wales

1747 in Wales

1748 in Wales

1749 in Wales

Arts and literature

New books

1740

• John Dyer - The Ruins of Rome
• Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) - Welsh Piety
• Zachariah Williams - The Mariners Compass Completed

1742

1744

• Jane Brereton - Poems on several occasions (posthumously published)

1746

• Anna Williams - Life of the Emperor Julian (translation from the French)

1749

• Zachariah Williams - A True Narrative of certain Circumstances relating to Zachariah Williams in the Charterhouse

Music

1740

• Howell Harris - Llyfr o Hymneu o Waith Amryw Awdwyr (collection of hymns)

1742

• Howell Harris & Daniel Rowland - Sail, Dibenion, a Rheolau'r Societies (collection of hymns)

1744

• William Williams Pantycelyn - Aleluia (hymns: first part)

Births

1740

• date unknown - Sir Watkin Lewes, politician (d. 1821)

1741

• January 16 - Hester Thrale, diarist and friend of Dr Johnson (d. 1821)
• August 20 - Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (d. 1811)
• September 3 - Owen Jones, antiquary (d. 1814)

1742

• September 26 - Thomas Jones, landscape painter (d. 1803)
• December 3 - Sir Erasmus Gower, naval commander (d. 1814)

1745

• February 14 - David Davis (Castellhywel), poet (d. 1827)

1746

• September 28 - William Jones, philologist (d. 1794)

1747

• January - Richard Fenton, poet and author (d. 1821)

1748

• September 1 - Thomas Johnes, landowner (d. 1816)

1749

• September 23 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician (d. 1789)

Deaths

1740

• August 7 - Jane Brereton, poet, 55
• October 20 - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn, politician, 75?

1741

• August - David Owen, 29 ("David of the White Rock"), harpist,
• date unknown
  • Wil Hopcyn, poet, 41?
  • Robert Roberts, theologian, 61?

1743

• July 15 - John Wynne, bishop, 83?
• date unknown
  • Thomas Morgan, Deist theologian
  • Robert Wynne, clergyman and academic

1744

• March 2 - William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, Jacobite, husband of Winifred Herbert

1745

• May 7 - Sir Thomas Hanmer, politician and literary editor, 68

1746

• May 21 - Lewis Morris, Welsh-descended Governor of New Jersey, 74

1748

• August 27 - Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet, 53

1749

• May - Winifred Herbert, Countess of Nithsdale, 58?
• August - Angharad James, poet, 72
• September 26 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, 57