1739 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1739 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 – Thomas Herring
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Matthias Mawson (from 18 February)
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Isaac Maddox
 * Bishop of St Davids – Nicholas Clagett

Events

 * March - Diarist William Bulkeley of Brynddu is a bearer at the funeral of Richard Bulkeley, 5th Viscount Bulkeley, and leaves an account in his diary.
 * 20 May - The roof of St Mary's Church, Swansea, collapses into the nave just before a Sunday morning service; the congregation is waiting outside for the officiating priest, who is running late.
 * date unknown
 * Samuel and Nathaniel Buck tour Wales to produce the first of their prints of the country, following on from their prints of England.
 * A new parish church is completed at Willington Worthenbury near Wrexham, designed by Richard Trubshaw.

New books

 * Rowland Ellis - A Salutation to the Britains (2nd London edition)
 * John Reynolds - The Scripture Genealogy and Display of Herauldry

Births

 * January - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), dramatist and poet (died 1810)
 * 14 March - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1767)
 * 3 April - Hugh Davies, botanist (died 1821)
 * date unknown - Richard Crawshay, industrialist (died 1810)

Deaths

 * 5 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, 65
 * 6 June - John Griffith, MP for Caernarvonshire, about 52