1768 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1768 to Wales and its people..

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 – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer


 * Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton
 * Bishop of Llandaff – John Ewer
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Richard Newcome
 * Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss (from 30 November)

Events

 * 2 March - Rowland Pugh, a local miner, discovers the "Great Lode" of copper on Parys Mountain and is rewarded with a bottle of whisky and a rent-free house for his lifetime.
 * By May - Kymer's Canal opens.
 * 16 May - Evan Lloyd is fined £50 after being found guilty of libel against William Price.
 * 24 August - A seminary is founded at Trefeca-isaf for the training of evangelical preachers, with financial assistance from Selina, Countess of Huntingdon.
 * 10 December - Richard Wilson is a founder member of the Royal Academy of Arts.
 * Oldest Jews' burial ground in Wales established at Swansea.
 * The Ladies of Llangollen meet for the first time in Ireland.
 * Controversial Bishop of Bangor John Egerton is translated to the see of Lichfield in England.

English language

 * John Griffith - Some Brief Remarks upon Sundry Important Subjects … principally addressed to the … Quakers … 

Welsh language

 * Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant) - Y Farddoneg Fabilonaidd
 * William Williams Pantycelyn - Tri Wyr o Sodom

Music

 * 14 May - In Dublin, a concert takes place for the benefit of "Jones", a resident of Britain Street, where music will be performed on "that most admired instrument, the Welsh Harp".

Births

 * 29 March - Sir Robert Vaughan, 2nd Baronet, landowner (died 1843)
 * 17 May (in Brunswick, Germany) - Caroline of Brunswick, future Princess of Wales (died 1821)
 * 5 August - Sydenham Edwards, botanical artist (died 1819)
 * 17 September - Edward Lloyd, 1st Baron Mostyn (died 1854) (died 1854)
 * 22 November - William Williams (Gwilym Twrog), poet (died 1836)
 * date unknown
 * John Bird, landscape artist (died 1829)
 * Thomas Parry, merchant (died 1824)

Deaths

 * 14 March - Owen Rees, Calvinist minister, 50/51
 * 26 March - Humphrey Owen, academic, 65
 * 13 May - Princess Louisa, daughter of the former Prince and Princess of Wales, 19 (consumption)
 * 31 August - Henrietta Nevill, Baroness Bergavenny, 38
 * date unknown
 * Robert Morris, industrialist
 * Hannah Pritchard, actress