1719 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1719 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 Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne
 * Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby
 * Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly
 * Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler
 * Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne
 * Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley

Events

 * March – The 41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot is raised by Colonel Edmund Fielding as Edmund Fielding's Regiment of Foot.
 * date unknown
 * The Davies brothers of Bersham begin work on the wrought-iron gates at Chirk Castle.
 * The first permanent legal printing press in Wales is established at Adpar by Isaac Carter of Carmarthenshire. It is believed that its first two publications are Cân o Senn i’w hen Feistr Tobacco by Alban Thomas and Cân ar Fesur Triban ynghylch Cydwybod a’i Chynheddfau.
 * On the death without heirs of Sir John Wynne, the Wynnstay estate passes to Jane Thelwall, the great-granddaughter of Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet.
 * The Welsh Charity School in London moves to Ailesbury Chapel, Clerkenwell, where it remains until about 1721.

New books

 * Christmas Samuel – Catecism o'r Scrythur
 * Eglurhad o Gatechism Byrraf y Gymanfa
 * Browne Willis – Survey of Llandaff

Births

 * February – William Edwards, clergyman and bridge engineer (d. 1789)
 * 22 February – Joshua Thomas, writer and Particular Baptist minister (d. 1797)
 * 17 June – Joshua Parry, nonconformist minister and writer (d. 1776)
 * 30 November – Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, future Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
 * date unknown – Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1769)

Deaths

 * 11 January – Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet, 90
 * 4 April – Thomas Powys, judge, 70/71
 * 19 June – Captain Howell Davis, pirate, ca 29
 * 11 October – Samuel Jones, Dissenting minister and tutor