1782 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1782 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- March - Lloyd Kenyon is appointed Attorney-General.
- 12 April - 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.
- 27 September - 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.
Arts and literature
New books
- 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
Music
- William Williams Pantycelyn - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion (second in a series of hymn collections)
Births
- 20 January - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845)
- 29 December - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (died 1857)
Deaths
- March - John Evans, anti-Methodist clergyman, 79
- 27 April - William Talbot, 1st Earl Talbot, politician, 71
- 15 May - 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.
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