1700s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1700–1709 to Wales and its people.

Events
1700 1701 1702 1703 1704 1705 1706
 * Quaker emigrant Rowland Ellis is elected to represent Philadelphia in the provincial assembly.
 * November - Humphrey Humphreys becomes Bishop of Hereford, and is replaced as Bishop of Bangor by John Evans.
 * Humphrey Mackworth becomes MP for Cardiganshire.
 * Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, is temporarily removed from his position after being found guilty of simony and maladministration.
 * 23rd Regiment of Foot granted the title The Welsh Regiment of Fusiliers.
 * Thomas Griffiths and a small group of followers settle at Welsh Tract, Delaware, where they found the Welsh Tract Baptist church.
 * Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, marries Lady Essex Finch.
 * Jane Kemeys marries Sir John Tynte, 2nd Baronet, resulting in an alliance between two important families and the beginning of the Kemeys-Tynte dynasty.
 * July - Richard Vaughan of Corsygedol becomes Constable of Harlech Castle.
 * George Bull becomes Bishop of St David's.
 * Crickhowell Bridge rebuilt in stone.
 * Humphrey Mackworth's company grants £20 a year towards a charity school at Esgair Hir mine in Cardiganshire, £30 a year towards a minister there, and £20 a year towards a charity school at Neath.

1707

1708


 * Edmund Meyrick sets up a school at Carmarthen.
 * Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, marries Cecil Mathew of Castell y Mynach in Pentyrch.

1709

New books
1702 1703 1704 1705 1706 1707
 * David Maurice - Cynffwrdd i'r gwan Gristion, neu'r gorsen ysig (translation from work of Theophilus Dorrington)
 * Ellis Wynne - Gweledigaetheu y Bardd Cwsc
 * Robert Nelson - A Companion for the Festivals and Fasts of the Church of England
 * Myles Davies - The Recantation of Mr. Pollett, a Roman priest
 * Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus (the letters of Katherine Philips (posthumously published)
 * William Jones - Synopsis Palmariorum Matheseos
 * Edward Lhuyd - Archaeologia Britannica, vol. 1: Glossography

Births
1700
 * 8 March – William Morgan the elder, of Tredegar, politician (d. 1731)
 * date unknown - Guto Nyth Brân, legendary athlete (d. 1737)
 * probable – Lewis Evans, surveyor (d. 1756)

1701
 * date unknown - Richard Trevor, bishop (d. 1771)

1702
 * 20 May - Thomas Morgan, judge (d. 1769)
 * date unknown - Humphrey Owen, academic (d. 1768)

1703 1704
 * 2 February - Richard Morris, one of the celebrated Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1779)
 * probable - Henry Arthur Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis (d. 1772)
 * May - Ann Maddocks, the "maid of Cefn Ydfa" (d. 1727)

1705
 * 6 May - William Morris, botanist, one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1763)

1707
 * 1 February - Frederick, Prince of Wales (d. 1751)

1708
 * 8 December - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist (d. 1759)
 * date unknown - John Pettingall, antiquary (d. 1781)

1709
 * date unknown
 * Joseph Hoare, academic (d. 1802)
 * David Williams, schoolmaster (d. 1784)

Deaths
1700 1701 1702 1703 1704 1705 1707 1708 1709 1717 1720 1725 1790
 * 27 June - Hugh Owen, Independent minister, 60?
 * 11 July - William Williams, Speaker of the House of Commons, 66
 * September – Sir John Aubrey, 2nd Baronet, politician
 * 8 December - Edward Harley, politician, 76
 * 16 December - Thomas Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 36 (smallpox)
 * date unknown - Sir John Hanmer, 3rd Baronet (in a duel)
 * January - James Annesley, 3rd Earl of Anglesey, 31
 * 25 March - Lewis Wogan, High Sheriff of Pembrokeshire, age unknown
 * 10 May - Edward Jones, Bishop of St Asaph, 62
 * May - William Wynne, historian
 * date unknown - Lionel Wafer, explorer, 65
 * date unknown - Edward Ravenscroft, dramatist
 * 1 December - William Wogan, politician
 * 30 June - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist, 49
 * 20 May - John Trevor lawyer and politician, expelled Speaker of the House of Commons, c.80
 * 7 March - John Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 49
 * 22 August - Sir Thomas Powell, 1st Baronet, politician, about 55
 * 29 August - Charles Williams, merchant, 87
 * 18 January - Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley, Lord Lieutenant of North Wales, 62
 * 25 July - Rev Thomas Griffith, 80, first pastor of Welsh Tract Baptist Church, Delaware, USA.
 * 29 November - William Jones, 49, Principal of Jesus College, Oxford.
 * 15 December - Francis Edwardes, politician
 * 4 March - Samuel Hallifax, Bishop of St Asaph, 57
 * 20 March - Thomas Richards of Coychurch, cleric and lexicographer, 80
 * 24 August - John Worgan, organist and composer, 66
 * 16 October - Daniel Rowland, Methodist leader, c.79
 * 5 November - Michael Lort, clergyman, academic and antiquary, 65