1772 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1772 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• May - Walter Siddons appears on stage at Chester and joins the Kemble family troupe.
• The Stepney family of Prendergast sell their Pembrokeshire estates.
• Henry Herbert is promoted to general, shortly before his death.

Arts and literature

New books

• Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - The Love of our Country
• Jinny Jenks - Tour through Wales
• Iolo Morganwg - Dagrau yr Awen
• Daniel Rowland - Pum Pregeth ac Amryw o Hymnau

Music

• William Williams Pantycelyn writes the words of the missionary hymn "O'er the Gloomy Hills of Darkness".

Births

• 10 January - William Jenkins Rees, antiquary (died 1855)
• July - Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), bard (died 1850)
• 25 October - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (died 1840)

Deaths

• 11 September - Henry Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis,
• 16 October - Richard Farrington, antiquary, 71