1740s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1740â1749 to Wales and its people.
Events
Arts and literature
New books
1740
- John Dyer - The Ruins of Rome
- Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) - Welsh Piety
- Zachariah Williams - The Mariners Compass Completed
1742
1744
- Jane Brereton - Poems on several occasions (posthumously published)
1746
- Anna Williams - Life of the Emperor Julian (translation from the French)
1749
- Zachariah Williams - A True Narrative of certain Circumstances relating to Zachariah Williams in the Charterhouse
Music
1740
- Howell Harris - Llyfr o Hymneu o Waith Amryw Awdwyr (collection of hymns)
1742
- Howell Harris & Daniel Rowland - Sail, Dibenion, a Rheolau'r Societies (collection of hymns)
1744
- William Williams Pantycelyn - Aleluia (hymns: first part)
Births
1740
- date unknown - Sir Watkin Lewes, politician (d. 1821)
1741
- January 16 - Hester Thrale, diarist and friend of Dr Johnson (d. 1821)
- August 20 - Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (d. 1811)
- September 3 - Owen Jones, antiquary (d. 1814)
1742
- September 26 - Thomas Jones, landscape painter (d. 1803)
- December 3 - Sir Erasmus Gower, naval commander (d. 1814)
1745
- February 14 - David Davis (Castellhywel), poet (d. 1827)
1746
- September 28 - William Jones, philologist (d. 1794)
1747
- January - Richard Fenton, poet and author (d. 1821)
1748
- September 1 - Thomas Johnes, landowner (d. 1816)
1749
- September 23 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician (d. 1789)
Deaths
1740
- August 7 - Jane Brereton, poet, 55
- October 20 - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn, politician, 75?
1741
- August - David Owen, 29 ("David of the White Rock"), harpist,
- date unknown
- Wil Hopcyn, poet, 41?
- Robert Roberts, theologian, 61?
1743
- July 15 - John Wynne, bishop, 83?
- date unknown
- Thomas Morgan, Deist theologian
- Robert Wynne, clergyman and academic
1744
- March 2 - William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, Jacobite, husband of Winifred Herbert
1745
- May 7 - Sir Thomas Hanmer, politician and literary editor, 68
1746
- May 21 - Lewis Morris, Welsh-descended Governor of New Jersey, 74
1748
1749
- May - Winifred Herbert, Countess of Nithsdale, 58?
- August - Angharad James, poet, 72
- September 26 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, 57