1700s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1700 - 1709 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales (from 1714)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach (from 1714)
Events
1700
- Quaker emigrant Rowland Ellis is elected to represent Philadelphia in the provincial assembly.
1701
- November - Humphrey Humphreys becomes Bishop of Hereford, and is replaced as Bishop of Bangor by John Evans.
- Sir Humphrey Mackworth becomes MP for Cardiganshire.
- Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, is temporarily removed from his position after being found guilty of simony and maladministration.
1702
- 23rd Regiment of Foot granted the title The Welsh Regiment of Fusiliers.
1703
- Thomas Griffiths and a small group of followers settle at Welsh Tract, Delaware, where they found the Welsh Tract Baptist church.
- Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, marries Lady Essex Finch.
1704
- Jane Kemeys marries Sir John Tynte, 2nd Baronet, resulting in an alliance between two important families and the beginning of the Kemeys-Tynte dynasty.
- July - Richard Vaughan of Corsygedol becomes Constable of Harlech Castle.
1705
- George Bull becomes Bishop of St David's.
1706
- Crickhowell Bridge rebuilt in stone.
- Sir Humphrey Mackworth's company grants £20 a year towards a charity school at Esgair Hir mine in Cardiganshire, £30 a year towards a minister there, and £20 a year towards a charity school at Neath.
1708
- Edmund Meyrick sets up a school at Carmarthen.
- Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, marries Cecil Mathew of Castell y Mynach in Pentyrch.
New books
1702
- David Maurice - Cynffwrdd i'r gwan Gristion, neu'r gorsen ysig (translation from work of Theophilus Dorrington)
1703
- Ellis Wynne - Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc
1704
- Robert Nelson - A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England
1705
- Myles Davies - The Recantation of Mr. Pollett, a Roman priest
- Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus (the letters of Katherine Philips (posthumously published)
1706
- William Jones - Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos
1707
- Edward Lhuyd - Archaeologia Britannica, vol. 1: Glossography
Births
1700
- March 8 – William Morgan the elder, of Tredegar, politician (d. 1731)
- date unknown - Guto Nyth Brân, legendary athlete (d. 1737)
- probable – Lewis Evans, surveyor (d. 1756)
1701
- date unknown - Richard Trevor, bishop (d. 1771)
1702
- May 20 - Thomas Morgan, judge (d. 1769)
- date unknown - Humphrey Owen, academic (d. 1768)
1703
- February 2 - Richard Morris, one of the celebrated Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1779)
- probable - Henry Arthur Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis (d. 1772)
1704
- May - Ann Maddocks, the "maid of Cefn Ydfa" (d. 1727)
1705
- May 6 - William Morris, botanist, one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1763)
1707
- February 1 - Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 1751)
1708
- December 8 - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist (d. 1759)
- date unknown - John Pettingall, antiquary (d. 1781)
1709
- date unknown
- Joseph Hoare, academic (d. 1802)
- David Williams, schoolmaster (d. 1784)
Deaths
1700
- June 27 - Hugh Owen, Independent minister, 60?
- July 11 - William Williams, Speaker of the House of Commons, 66
- September – Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet, politician
- December 8 - Sir Edward Harley, politician, 76
- December 16 - Thomas Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 36 (smallpox)
1701
- date unknown - Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet (in a duel)
1702
- January - James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey, 31
- date unknown - Lewis Wogan, High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire,
1703
- May 10 - Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, 62
1704
- May - William Wynne, historian
1705
- date unknown - Lionel Wafer, explorer, 65
1707
- date unknown - Edward Ravenscroft, dramatist
1708
- December 1 - William Wogan, politician
1709
- June 30 - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist, 49
1717
- May 20 - Sir John Trevor lawyer and politician, expelled Speaker of the House of Commons, c.80