1720s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1720–1729 to Wales and its people.

Events
1720

1721
 * Charles Hanbury Williams succeeds to the estate of his godfather, and takes the surname Williams.

1722
 * December 30 - Bridget Vaughan marries Arthur Bevan, a barrister.

1723

1724

1725
 * A charity school is built at Caerleon-on-Usk as the result of a bequest from Charles Williams.

1726
 * 4 May - Ann Thomas (the "Maid of Cefn Ydfa") marries Anthony Maddocks.
 * Silvanus Bevan is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on the recommendation of Sir Isaac Newton.

1727
 * 26 July - Prince Frederick, son of the Prince of Wales, is created Baron Snowdon by his grandfather, King George I of Great Britain.

1728
 * The Piercefield estate is sold for £3,366, 5.6d to Thomas Rous of Wotton-under-Edge.

1729


 * 8 January - Prince Frederick, son of King George II, is created Prince of Wales, nearly two years after his father's accession.
 * 1 March - A St. David's Society is established by Welsh immigrants in Philadelphia.
 * 19 October - John Harris becomes Bishop of Llandaff.
 * Zachariah Williams is admitted as a poor brother pensioner of the Charterhouse in London.

New books
1721 1723 1724 1725 1729
 * Ellis Pugh - Annerch ir Cymru (first Welsh book published in America)
 * Henry Rowlands - Mona Antiqua Restaurata
 * Christmas Samuel - Llun Agrippa
 * Owen Wynne - The Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins
 * Dafydd Lewys - Golwg ar y Byd
 * Christmas Samuel - Golwg ar y Testament Newydd

Births
1720 1722 1723 1724 1725 1726
 * July 22 - Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1769)
 * May 9 - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian (d. 1795)
 * February 23 - Richard Price, philosopher (d. 1791)
 * March 5 - Princess Mary of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
 * April - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (d. 1811)
 * December 4 - Princess Louise of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1751)
 * May - Llewellin Penrose, painter
 * September 7 - Francis Homfray, industrialist (d. 1798)
 * June 14 - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (d. 1798)
 * William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical (d. 1795)

Deaths
1720 1721 1722 1723 1724 1725 1729
 * March 7 - John Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 49
 * April/May - Robert Wynne, clergyman and poet
 * August 29 - Charles Williams, merchant, 87
 * December 31 - John Wynne, industrialist
 * July 8 - Elihu Yale, benefactor of Yale University, 72
 * date unknown - Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet
 * February 10 - Bartholomew Roberts, pirate ("Black Bart"), 39 (in battle)
 * November 16 - John Vaughan, reformer, 59
 * December 28 - Sir Charles Lloyd, 1st Baronet, of Milfield, politician, 61
 * March 22 - John Evans, Bishop of Bangor and Meath, 73?
 * June 1 - Erasmus Saunders, clergyman, 54?
 * date unknown - Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley
 * December 15 - Francis Edwardes, politician
 * April 29 - Sir Stephen Glynne, 3rd Baronet, 64
 * September - Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, 35?
 * September 1 - Sir Richard Steele, satirist, 57