1739 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1739 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

March - Diarist William Bulkeley of Brynddu is a bearer at the funeral of Richard Bulkeley, 5th Viscount Bulkeley.
The roof of St Mary's Church, Swansea, collapses into the nave just before a Sunday morning service.
Samuel and Nathaniel Buck produce the first of their prints of Wales.
A new parish church is built at Willington Worthenbury.

March 14 - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1767)
April 3 - Hugh Davies, botanist (died 1821))
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- Richard Crawshay, industrialist (died 1810)
- Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), dramatist and poet (died 1810)

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