1742 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1742 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- July - The result of the previous year's election for Denbighshire is overturned in favour of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet.
- Howell Harris, Daniel Rowland and their converts form the Methodist Association in Wales. One of these, William Prichard, is exiled with his family from Glasfryn Fawr and relocates to Plas Penmynydd, Anglesey.
Arts and literature
New books
- Richard Farrington - Twenty Sermons
- Morgan John Lewis - Sail, Dibenion, a Rheolau'r Societies
Music
- John Parry Ddall - Antient British Music
Births
- 26 September - Thomas Jones, landscape painter (d. 1803)
- 3 December - Sir Erasmus Gower, naval commander (d. 1814)
Deaths
- January - Hugh Williams (of Chester), politician, 47?
- 2 March (buried) - Moses Williams, antiquarian scholar, 57
- 8 June - Robert Jones, landowner
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