1705 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1705 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley
 * Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
 * Bishop of Bangor – John Evans
 * Bishop of Llandaff – William Beaw
 * Bishop of St Asaph – William Beveridge
 * Bishop of St Davids – George Bull (consecrated 29 April)

Events

 * 29 April - George Bull is consecrated Bishop of St David's.
 * May–June - In the 1705 English general election, Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley, becomes MP for Anglesey, and Sir Thomas Powell, 1st Baronet, is MP for Monmouth Boroughs.
 * date unknown - Edward Brereton is replaced as MP for Denbigh after having offended the local gentry.

New books

 * Myles Davies - The Recantation of Mr. Pollett, a Roman priest
 * Thomas Edwardes - Diocesan Episcopacy proved from Holy Scripture
 * Letters of Orinda to Poliarchus (the letters of Katherine Philips (posthumously published)
 * Walter Morgan - The Parson's Jewel

Births

 * 6 May - William Morris, botanist, one of the Morris brothers of Anglesey (d. 1763)
 * date unknown
 * David Evans, Canon of St Asaph (d. 1788)
 * Dafydd Nicolas, poet (d. 1774)

Deaths

 * August - William Richards, author of Wallography, or the Britton described
 * date unknown - Lionel Wafer, explorer, 65