1743 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1743 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

January 2 - Edward Willes is consecrated Bishop of St David's.
April 21 - Thomas Herring becomes Archbishop of York and is replaced as Bishop of Bangor by Matthew Hutton. Both men go on to serve as Archbishop of Canterbury.
June 8 - William Bulkeley completes the first of his diaries.
William Williams (Pantycelyn) is refused ordination as a priest because of his Methodist activities; from this time on he commits himself entirely to the Methodist movement.
John Thomas replaces Isaac Maddox as Bishop of St Asaph, but within a short time is translated to the bishopric of Lincoln and is himself replaced at St Asaph by Samuel Lisle.

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

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