1782 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1782 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

March - Lloyd Kenyon is appointed Attorney-General.
April 12 - In the Battle of the Saintes, the British fleet defeat the French after a campaign in which Admiral Sir Thomas Foley has played a major part.
September 27 - Francis Homfray leases a mill from Anthony Bacon of Cyfarthfa ironworks. (Under the terms of a new Parliamentary Act, Bacon, as an MP, is disqualified from holding government munitions contracts.)
William Owen Pughe and Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn) meet in London.
David Davis (Dafis Castellhywel) settles in Castellhywel.

William Gilpin - Observations on the River Wye and several parts of South Wales, etc. relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty; made in the summer of the year 1770
Thomas Pennant - Journey to Snowdon, volume 1
John Walters - Translated Specimens of Welsh Poetry

William Williams Pantycelyn - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion (second in a series of hymn collections)

March - John Evans, anti-Methodist clergyman, 79
April 27 - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, politician, 71
May 15 - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54
November - John Parry, harpist, 72?
date unknown - Lady Catherine Hamilton, formerly Catherine Barlow of Colby, heiress to an estate in south Pembrokeshire which passed to her nephew Charles Francis Greville.