1740 in Wales

1740 in Wales

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1740 in: Great Britain • Ireland

Other events of 1740

Events from the year 1740 in Wales.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Frederick, Prince of Wales
• Princess of Wales - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha

Events

• November 6 - Charles Wesley records in his diary a visit to the Glascott family home at Cardiff.
• William Williams Pantycelyn is appointed curate to Theophilus Evans at Llanfaes.

Arts and literature

New books

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

Music

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

Births

• 23 February - Benjamin Evans, Congregational minister and author (d. 1821)
• date unknown - Sir Watkin Lewes, politician (died 1821)

Deaths

• 3 April - Thomas Dominic Williams, Roman Catholic bishop
• 7 August - Jane Brereton, poet, 55
• 3 October - Price Devereux, 9th Viscount Hereford, politician, 76
• 20 October - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn, politician, 75?
• date unknown - Enoch Francis, Baptist