1760s in Wales

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Other events of the decade

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1760 - 1769 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

1762
- Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Tri Chydymaith Dyn
- Oliver Goldsmith - The Life of Richard Nash
1763
- Goronwy Owen et al. - Diddanwch Teuluaidd
1764
- Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards
1766
- David Jones of Trefriw (ed.) - Cydymaith Diddan
- John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - Drych y Cristion
- Anna Williams - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
1767
- Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu) - Traethawd ar Fywyd Ffydd
1768
- Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Y Farddoneg Fabilonaidd

1760
- July 6 - Thomas Phillips, surgeon and educational benefactor (d. 1851)
- December 8 - Morgan John Rhys, minister and author (d. 1804)
1761
- July 15 - Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), writer (d. 1849)
- October 11 - David Charles, hymn-writer (d. 1834)
1762
- August 12 - George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV (d. 1830)
1763
- August - Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and author (d. 1836)
1764
- April 29 - Julia Ann Hatton, novelist (d. 1838)
- June 20 - Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi), first Unitarian minister in Wales (d. 1833)
- date unknown - Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London (d. 1833)
1766
- March William Turner, industrialist (d. 1853)
- December 6 - Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet (d. 1850)
- December 25 - Christmas Evans, preacher (d. 1838)
1768
- August - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanical artist (d. 1819)
- September 17 - Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn (d. 1854)
- September 24 - Sharon Turner, historian (d. 1847)

1760
- April - David Lewis, poet
- October 25 - King George II of Great Britain, former Prince of Wales, 76
1761
- April 8 - Griffith Jones Llanddowror, pioneer in education, 77
1762
- February 3 - Beau Nash, leader of fashion, 87
1763
- November 25 - Richard Morris, father of the noted Morris brothers ("Morrisiaid Môn"), 89
1764
- June 18 - Christmas Samuel, minister and writer, 90
- June 22 - Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, 63
- September 26 - Joseph Harris, Assay-master of the Royal Mint, 60
1765
- April 10 - Edward Heylyn, porcelain manufacturer, 70?
- April 11 - Lewis Morris, hydrographer and writer, eldest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 64
1767
- September 11 - Theophilus Evans, clergyman and historian, 74
- September 17 - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 28
1768
- March 26 - Humphrey Owen, academic, 65
1769
- July - Goronwy Owen, poet, 46