1736 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1736 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
 * Bishop of Llandaff – John Harris
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox (from 4 July)
 * Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett

Events

 * 17 April - Frederick, Prince of Wales, marries Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha at the Chapel Royal in St James's Palace, London.
 * 4 July - Isaac Maddox is consecrated Bishop of St Asaph. Maddox continues to reside in south-east England and rarely visits the diocese.
 * 28 July - John Harris, Bishop of Llandaff, becomes Dean of Wells Cathedral in succession to Isaac Maddox.
 * Thomas Frye paints the Prince of Wales for the Worshipful Company of Saddlers.
 * date unknown
 * Sixty soldiers are drowned after their vessel is wrecked on the Wolves rocks near Flat Holm; the incident leads to the building of a lighthouse on the island.
 * Howell Harris opens a school.
 * Fortunatus Wright marries Mary, daughter of William Bulkeley, in Dublin.

New books

 * Rees Ellis - "A Summer Carol"
 * Anthony Ellys - A Plea for the Sacramental Test as best Security for the Church established, and very conducive to the Welfare of the State
 * John Reynolds - Heraldry Displayed

Births

 * 6 July - Daniel Morgan, American pioneer, soldier and politician, of Welsh ancestry (d. 1802)
 * 10 July - David Jones, Church of England priest and an early supporter of Welsh Calvinistic Methodism (d. 1810)
 * 31 August - David Ellis, clergyman, poet and transcriber of manuscripts (d. 1795)
 * 22 October - John Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian (d. 1769)
 * date unknown
 * Charles Morgan, politician (d. 1787)
 * Thomas Wynn, 1st Baron Newborough, politician (d. 1807)

Deaths

 * June - Edward Prideaux Gwyn, about 38
 * November? - Griffith Wynn, translator, about 76
 * 22 November - Thomas Lewis, politician, owner of The Van estate, 56/57
 * date unknown - Edward Kemys, MP for Monmouth Boroughs, about 43