1740s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1740–1749 to Wales and its people.

Events

 * 1740 in Wales
 * 1741 in Wales
 * 1742 in Wales
 * 1743 in Wales
 * 1744 in Wales
 * 1745 in Wales
 * 1746 in Wales
 * 1747 in Wales
 * 1748 in Wales
 * 1749 in Wales

New books
1740 1742
 * John Dyer - The Ruins of Rome
 * Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) - Welsh Piety
 * Zachariah Williams - The Mariners Compass Completed

1744 1746 1749
 * Jane Brereton - Poems on several occasions (posthumously published)
 * Anna Williams - Life of the Emperor Julian (translation from the French)
 * Zachariah Williams - A True Narrative of certain Circumstances relating to Zachariah Williams in the Charterhouse

Music
1740 1742 1744
 * Howell Harris - Llyfr o Hymneu o Waith Amryw Awdwyr (collection of hymns)
 * Howell Harris & Daniel Rowland - Sail, Dibenion, a Rheolau'r Societies (collection of hymns)
 * William Williams Pantycelyn - Aleluia (hymns: first part)

Births
1740 1741 1742 1745 1746 1747 1748 1749
 * date unknown - Sir Watkin Lewes, politician (d. 1821)
 * January 16 - Hester Thrale, diarist and friend of Dr Johnson (d. 1821)
 * August 20 - Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Carnarvon (d. 1811)
 * September 3 - Owen Jones, antiquary (d. 1814)
 * September 26 - Thomas Jones, landscape painter (d. 1803)
 * December 3 - Sir Erasmus Gower, naval commander (d. 1814)
 * February 14 - David Davis (Castellhywel), poet (d. 1827)
 * September 28 - William Jones, philologist (d. 1794)
 * January - Richard Fenton, poet and author (d. 1821)
 * September 1 - Thomas Johnes, landowner (d. 1816)
 * September 23 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician (d. 1789)

Deaths
1740 1741 1743 1744 1745 1746 1748 1749
 * August 7 - Jane Brereton, poet, 55
 * October 20 - Sir William Williams, 2nd Baronet, of Gray's Inn, politician, 75?
 * August - David Owen, 29 ("David of the White Rock"), harpist,
 * date unknown
 * Wil Hopcyn, poet, 41?
 * Robert Roberts, theologian, 61?
 * July 15 - John Wynne, bishop, 83?
 * date unknown
 * Thomas Morgan, Deist theologian
 * Robert Wynne, clergyman and academic
 * March 2 - William Maxwell, 5th Earl of Nithsdale, Jacobite, husband of Winifred Herbert
 * May 7 - Sir Thomas Hanmer, politician and literary editor, 68
 * May 21 - Lewis Morris, Welsh-descended Governor of New Jersey, 74
 * August 27 - Sir Robert Salusbury Cotton, 3rd Baronet, 53
 * May - Winifred Herbert, Countess of Nithsdale, 58?
 * August - Angharad James, poet, 72
 * September 26 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, 57