1764 in Wales

Events from the year 1764 in Wales.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan
 * Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Wynn
 * Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
 * Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice
 * Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
 * Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth
 * Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – William Vaughan
 * Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne
 * Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton
 * Bishop of Llandaff – John Ewer
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Richard Newcome
 * Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Squire

Events

 * January – South Wales industrialist Anthony Bacon succeeds John Wilkes as MP for Aylesbury.
 * February – Thomas Nowell, the new principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford, marries Sarah Munday, daughter of the Mayor of Oxford.
 * 21 June – Humphrey Edwards, physician, begins a voyage round the world as physician on the HMS Tamar (1758).

English language

 * Rowland Jones – The Origin of Language and Nations
 * Gabriel Powell – Survey of Gower

Welsh language

 * Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) – Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards
 * David Powell – Sail yr Athrawiaeth Gatholic
 * Morgan Rhys – Golwg o Ben Nebo

Music

 * 31 March – "Jones" performs on the Welsh harp at a benefit concert in Dublin, "in the true Spirit and Taste peculiar to the Genius of his Country".

Births

 * 29 April – Ann Hatton ("Ann of Swansea"), English novelist (d. 1838)
 * 20 June – Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi), first Unitarian minister in Wales (d. 1833)
 * 20 July – Sir Robert Williams, 9th Baronet, politician (died 1830)
 * 27 July – John Thelwall, English-born orator, writer, political reformer, journalist and poet (died 1834)
 * date unknown
 * William Crawshay I, ironmaster (d. 1834)
 * Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London (d. 1833)

Deaths

 * 17 March – Uvedale Tomkins Price, politician, Steward of the Courts for Denbigh, 78
 * 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
 * October – Richard Lathrop, bookseller and printer, age unknown
 * date unknown – John Richards, preacher and poet, about 44