1708 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1708 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 – John Tyler
 * Bishop of St Asaph – William Beveridge (until 5 March); William Fleetwood (from 6 June)
 * Bishop of St Davids – George Bull

Events

 * July - Following the British general election, some changes in representation occur in Wales:
 * Whig Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet, replaces Tory John Meyrick as MP for Pembroke
 * Whig Thomas Windsor replaces Sir Hopton Williams, 3rd Baronet, of the same party, as MP for Monmouthshire
 * Sir John Aubrey, 3rd Baronet, is re-elected as MP for Cardiff, after his opponent, Sir Edward Stradling, 5th Baronet, falls out with his supporters.
 * John Roberts replaces Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, as MP for Denbigh Boroughs
 * October – Edmund Meyrick sets up a school at Carmarthen.
 * Edward Lhuyd is elected a fellow of the Royal Society.
 * Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot of Hensol, marries Cecil Mathew of Castell y Mynach in Pentyrch.

New books

 * Cennad oddiwrth y Ser... (almanac)
 * Jenkin Evans - Catecism Byr i Blant (translation of Mathew Henry's Short Catechism for Children)

Births

 * 8 December - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist (died 1759)
 * date unknown - John Pettingall, antiquary (died 1781)
 * probable
 * Joshua Andrews, Baptist minister (died 1793)
 * Lewis Hopkin, poet and artisan (died 1771)

Deaths

 * 5 March – William Beveridge, Bishop of St Asaph, 71
 * 23 March - Thomas Bulkeley, politician, 75
 * 1 December - William Wogan, judge and politician, about 70