1778 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1778 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- A furnace is built at Sirhowy by Thomas Atkinson and William Barrow of London. This is the first stage of the Tredegar ironworks.
Arts and literature
New books
- Robert Jones - Drych i'r Anllythrennog
- Thomas Pennant - Tour in Wales
- Nathaniel Williams - Dialogus
Music
Births
- September 29 - Benjamin Hall, industrialist and politician (died 1817)
- November - Sir Salusbury Pryce Humphreys, admiral (died 1845)
Deaths
- April 25 - James Relly, Methodist minister, 56?
- October 6 - William Worthington, clergyman and author, 74
- date unknown - William Owen, Royal Navy officer