1700 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1700 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield
 * Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke


 * Bishop of Bangor – Humphrey Humphreys
 * Bishop of Llandaff – William Beaw
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Edward Jones
 * Bishop of St Davids – vacant

Events

 * date unknown
 * Quaker emigrant Rowland Ellis is elected to represent Philadelphia in the provincial assembly.
 * Evan Evans travels from Wales to become rector of Christ Church, Philadelphia
 * The Gower family immigrates from Worcestershire into Wales.

New books

 * John Jones – The Mysteries of Opium Revealed
 * David Maurice
 * Arweiniwr cartrefol i'r iawn a'r buddiol dderbyniad o Swperyr Arglwydd
 * The Promised Reed; a sermon preach'd … for the support of weak Christians

Births

 * 8 March – William Morgan the elder, of Tredegar, politician (died 1731)
 * May – Sir George Wynne, 1st Baronet, of Leeswood Hall, Flintshire, landowner and politician (died 1756)
 * date unknown
 * John Jones, clergyman and controversialist (died 1770)
 * Benjamin Meredith, Baptist minister (died 1749)
 * Guto Nyth Brân (Griffith Morgan), legendary athlete (died 1737)
 * probable
 * John Edwards (Siôn y Potiau), poet (died 1776)
 * Lewis Evans, surveyor (died 1756)

Deaths

 * 21 January – Henry Somerset, 1st Duke of Beaufort, politician, 70/71
 * 15 March – Hugh Owen, independent minister
 * 11 July – Sir William Williams, 1st Baronet, of Gray's Inn, 65/66
 * 19 July – John Evans, Puritan clergyman and teacher, 51/52
 * 15 September – Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet, about 50 (injuries from a fall)
 * 16 December – Thomas Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 36 (smallpox)
 * probable – Owen Wynne, lawyer and civil servant, about 48