1730s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1730–1739 to Wales and its people.

Events

 * 1730
 * 1731
 * 1732
 * 1733
 * 1734
 * 1735
 * 1736
 * 1737
 * 1738
 * 1739

New books
1730 1731 1732 1734
 * Joseph Harris - A Treatise on Navigation
 * James Lewis & Christmas Samuel - Y Cyfrif Cywiraf o'r Pechod Gwreiddiol
 * William Wotton (ed.) - Cyfreithjeu Hywel Dda ac eraill, seu Leges Wallicae (Laws of Hywel Dda)
 * Humphrey Lhuyd - Britannicae Descriptionis Commentariolum
 * Edward Samuel - Athrawiaeth yr Eglwys
 * David Evans - The Minister of Christ and his Flock
 * Jeremy Owen - Golwg ar y Beiau
 * Edmund Curll - The Life of Robert Price … one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas

Births
1731 1732 1734 1736 1737 1738 1739
 * date unknown - Siôn Robert Lewis, author and hymn-writer (d. 1806)
 * 5 October - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, lawyer and politician (d. 1802)
 * 3 July - Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke (d. 1794)
 * 24 October - Thomas Henry, apothecary (d. 1816)
 * date unknown - Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough, politician (d. 1807)
 * 13 May - Thomas Williams of Llanidan, industrialist (d. 1802)
 * 31 August - Princess Augusta, eldest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1813)
 * date unknown - Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, politician and slave-owner (d. 1808)
 * 4 June - Prince George, eldest son of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1820)
 * date unknown - David Williams, philosopher (d. 1816)
 * 14 March - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1767)
 * date unknown
 * Richard Crawshay, industrialist (d. 1810)
 * Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), dramatist and poet (d. 1810)

Deaths
1730 1731 1732 1733 1734 1737 1738 1739
 * August - Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet, 21
 * December - Owen Gruffydd, poet
 * date unknown - Thomas Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, politician
 * 6 April - David Lloyd, Welsh-born American lawyer
 * September - Rowland Ellis, Quaker leader (in America)
 * 2 February - Robert Price, judge, 79
 * 22 January - Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke
 * date unknown
 * John Morgan, poet
 * Sir Robert Myddelton, 5th Baronet
 * John Myddelton of Chirk Castle, politician
 * 2 June - Francis Gwyn, politician, 85?
 * 14 June - John Hanbury, industrialist, 70?
 * 13 July - Ellis Wynne, clergyman and writer, 63
 * 14 February - Charles Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot, 52
 * 20 November - Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, consort of King George II of Great Britain and former Princess of Wales (1714-1727), 54
 * date unknown - Guto Nyth Brân, legendary athlete, 37
 * 27 September - Sir Thomas Stradling, 28 (in a duel)
 * 5 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, 65