1745 in Wales

Events from the year 1745 in Wales.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, 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 – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne
 * Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – vacant
 * Bishop of Bangor – Matthew Hutton
 * Bishop of Llandaff – John Gilbert
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Lisle
 * Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor

Events

 * Following the failure of the Jacobite Rebellion, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, is suspected of involvement and seeks protection from his father-in-law, Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort.

New books

 * Anonymous
 * An Expostulatory Epistle to the Welsh Knight..., etc
 * An Apology for the Welsh Knight..., etc

Music

 * Ancient British Music, Part 2 (unpublisher)

Births

 * 13 January – Robert Jones, Rhoslan, writer (died 1829)
 * 14 February – David Davis (Castellhywel), poet (died 1827)
 * 15 July – Sir John Morris, 1st Baronet, industrialist (died 1819)
 * date unknown – Thomas Redmond, artist (died 1785)

Deaths

 * 22 October – William Herbert, 2nd Marquess of Powis, 80
 * date unknown – Erasmus Lewes, Anglican clergyman