1760s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1760â1769 to Wales and its people.
Events
Arts and literature
New books
- 1762
- Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Tri Chydymaith Dyn
- Oliver Goldsmith - The Life of Richard Nash
- 1763
- Goronwy Owen et al. - Diddanwch Teuluaidd
- 1764
- Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards
- 1766
- David Jones of Trefriw (ed.) - Cydymaith Diddan
- John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - Drych y Cristion
- Anna Williams - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
- 1767
- Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu) - Traethawd ar Fywyd Ffydd
- 1768
- Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Y Farddoneg Fabilonaidd
Music
Births
- 1760
- 6 July - Thomas Phillips, surgeon and educational benefactor (d. 1851)
- 8 December - Morgan John Rhys, minister and author (d. 1804)
- 1761
- 15 July - Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), writer (d. 1849)
- 11 October - David Charles, hymn-writer (d. 1834)
- 1762
- 12 August - George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV (d. 1830)
- 1763
- August - Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and author (d. 1836)
- 1764
- 29 April - Julia Ann Hatton, novelist (d. 1838)
- 20 June - Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi), first Unitarian minister in Wales (d. 1833)
- date unknown - Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London (d. 1833)
- 1766
- March William Turner, industrialist (d. 1853)
- 6 December - Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet (d. 1850)
- 25 December - Christmas Evans, preacher (d. 1838)
- 1768
- August - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanical artist (d. 1819)
- 17 September - Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn (d. 1854)
- 24 September - Sharon Turner, historian (d. 1847)
Deaths
- 1760
- April - David Lewis, poet
- 25 October - King George II of Great Britain, former Prince of Wales, 76
- 1761
- 8 April - Griffith Jones Llanddowror, pioneer in education, 77
- 1762
- 3 February - Beau Nash, leader of fashion, 87
- 1763
- 25 November - Richard Morris, father of the noted Morris brothers ("Morrisiaid Môn"), 89
- 1764
- 18 June - Christmas Samuel, minister and writer, 90
- 22 June - Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, 63
- 26 September - Joseph Harris, Assay-master of the Royal Mint, 60
- 1765
- 10 April - Edward Heylyn, porcelain manufacturer, 70?
- 11 April - Lewis Morris, hydrographer and writer, eldest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 64
- 1767
- 11 September - Theophilus Evans, clergyman and historian, 74
- 17 September - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 28
- 1768
- 26 March - Humphrey Owen, academic, 65
- 1769
- July - Goronwy Owen, poet, 46