1777 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1777 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- March 1 - David Samwell, at sea between New Zealand and Tahiti with Captain Cook, writes a pennillion.
- July 22 - The business partnership between Anthony Bacon and William Brownrigg is dissolved.
- Thomas Pennant marries Anne Mostyn, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet.
- Francis Towne and John White go on a painting tour of North Wales.
Arts and literature
New books
- Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Duwdod Crist
- Nicholas Owen - British Remains
- Thomas Pennant - British Zoology, vol. 4
- William Williams Pantycelyn - Ductor Naptiarum: Neu Gyfarwyddwr Priodas
Music
Births
- 15 June - David Daniel Davis, royal obstetrician (died 1841)
- 29 August - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848)
- 15 September - John Jones of Ystrad, MP (died 1842)
- 7 November - Richard Bassett, clergyman (died 1852)
- date unknown
- William Camden Edwards, engraver (died 1855)
- Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (died 1864)
Deaths
- 4 March - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62
- 5 April - Thomas_Lewis, politician, 86
- April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77
- 19 May - Button Gwinnett, American political leader of Welsh parentage, 41
- 1 July - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, 64
- 30 August - Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer, 66
- 18 December - William Lloyd, translator, 60
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