1735 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1735 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley
 * Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan
 * Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne
 * Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
 * Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
 * Bishop of Bangor – Charles Cecil (from 15 January)
 * Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Thomas Tanner (until 14 December)
 * Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett

Events

 * 29 January – The Kemeys baronetcy of Cefn Mabli becomes extinct on the death of Sir Charles Kemeys, 4th Baronet. His property at Cefn Mably is inherited by Sir Charles Tynte, 5th Baronet.
 * 20 April – Religious conversion of Howell Harris at Talgarth, marking a beginning of the Welsh Methodist revival.
 * September – Griffith Hughes records in his diary that he has broken his "knee pan" while travelling in Pennsylvania on behalf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel.
 * date unknown – Swansea-born Beau Nash appoints himself Master of Ceremonies at Tunbridge Wells, where a public house is later named after him.

New books

 * Lewis Morris – Tlysau yr Hen Oesoedd

Births

 * 1 March – John Price, librarian (died 1813)
 * 24 June – Barbara Herbert, Countess of Powis, posthumous daughter of Lord Edward Herbert (died 1786)
 * July – Cecil de Cardonnel, 2nd Baroness Dynevor, peeress (died 1793)

Deaths

 * 5 April – Sir Edward Stradling, 5th Baronet, MP for Cardiff and Sheriff of Glamorgan, 62
 * July – John Ellis, antiquarian, 61
 * 14 December – Thomas Tanner, Bishop of St Asaph, 61