1760s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1760–1769 to Wales and its people.

Events

 * 1760 in Wales
 * 1761 in Wales
 * 1762 in Wales
 * 1763 in Wales
 * 1764 in Wales
 * 1765 in Wales
 * 1766 in Wales
 * 1767 in Wales
 * 1768 in Wales
 * 1769 in Wales

New books

 * 1762
 * Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Tri Chydymaith Dyn
 * Oliver Goldsmith - The Life of Richard Nash
 * 1763
 * Goronwy Owen et al. - Diddanwch Teuluaidd
 * 1764
 * Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards
 * 1766
 * David Jones of Trefriw (ed.) - Cydymaith Diddan
 * John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - Drych y Cristion
 * Anna Williams - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
 * 1767
 * Evan Thomas (Ieuan Fardd Ddu) - Traethawd ar Fywyd Ffydd
 * 1768
 * Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Y Farddoneg Fabilonaidd

Births

 * 1760
 * 6 July - Thomas Phillips, surgeon and educational benefactor (d. 1851)
 * 8 December - Morgan John Rhys, minister and author (d. 1804)
 * 1761
 * 15 July - Walter Davies (Gwallter Mechain), writer (d. 1849)
 * 11 October - David Charles, hymn-writer (d. 1834)
 * 1762
 * 12 August - George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV (d. 1830)
 * 1763
 * August - Peter Bailey Williams, clergyman and author (d. 1836)
 * 1764
 * 29 April - Julia Ann Hatton, novelist (d. 1838)
 * 20 June - Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi), first Unitarian minister in Wales (d. 1833)
 * date unknown - Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London (d. 1833)
 * 1766
 * March William Turner, industrialist (d. 1853)
 * 6 December - Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet (d. 1850)
 * 25 December - Christmas Evans, preacher (d. 1838)
 * 1768
 * August - Sydenham Teak Edwards, botanical artist (d. 1819)
 * 17 September - Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn (d. 1854)
 * 24 September - Sharon Turner, historian (d. 1847)

Deaths

 * 1760
 * April - David Lewis, poet
 * 25 October - King George II of Great Britain, former Prince of Wales, 76
 * 1761
 * 8 April - Griffith Jones Llanddowror, pioneer in education, 77
 * 1762
 * 3 February - Beau Nash, leader of fashion, 87
 * 1763
 * 25 November - Richard Morris, father of the noted Morris brothers ("Morrisiaid Môn"), 89
 * 1764
 * 18 June - Christmas Samuel, minister and writer, 90
 * 22 June - Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, 63
 * 26 September - Joseph Harris, Assay-master of the Royal Mint, 60
 * 1765
 * 10 April - Edward Heylyn, porcelain manufacturer, 70?
 * 11 April - Lewis Morris, hydrographer and writer, eldest of the Morris brothers of Anglesey, 64
 * 1767
 * 11 September - Theophilus Evans, clergyman and historian, 74
 * 17 September - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son of Frederick, Prince of Wales, 28
 * 1768
 * 26 March - Humphrey Owen, academic, 65
 * 1769
 * July - Goronwy Owen, poet, 46