1770s in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1770–1779 to Wales and its people.

Events

 * 1770 in Wales
 * 1771 in Wales
 * 1772 in Wales
 * 1773 in Wales
 * 1774 in Wales
 * 1775 in Wales
 * 1776 in Wales
 * 1777 in Wales
 * 1778 in Wales
 * 1779 in Wales

New books

 * Thomas Churchyard - The Worthines of Wales, a Poem (1776)
 * Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - Casgliad o Bregethau (1776)
 * Williams Evans - A New English-Welsh dictionary: Containing All Words Necessary for Reading an English Author (1771)
 * Elizabeth Griffith - The Morality of Shakespeare's Drama Illustrated (1775)
 * Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Duwdod Crist (1777)
 * Jinny Jenks - Tour through Wales (1772)
 * Dafydd Jones - Marwnad Enoch Ffransis (1774)
 * Hugh Jones (Maesglasau)
 * Cydymaith yr Hwsmon (1774)
 * Gardd y Caniadau (1776)
 * Robert Jones
 * Lleferydd yr Asyn (1770)
 * Drych i'r Anllythrennog (1778)
 * Iolo Morganwg - Dagrau yr Awen (1772)
 * Nicholas Owen - British Remains (1777)
 * Thomas Pennant - British Zoology, vol. 4 (1777)
 * David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân) - Allwydd y Nef. O gasgliad D.P. Off. (1776)
 * Daniel Rowland - Pum Pregeth ac Amryw o Hymnau (1772)
 * Nathaniel Williams - Dialogus (1778)
 * William Williams Pantycelyn - Ductor Naptiarum: Neu Gyfarwyddwr Priodas (1777)
 * Sir John Wynn - History of the Gwydir Family (posthumously published in 1770)

Music

 * Dafydd Jones - Difyrrwch i'r Pererinion, vol. 3

Births

 * 1770
 * 15 January - Sir John Edwards, Baronet, politician (died 1850)
 * 14 April - John Evans, explorer (died 1799)
 * 30 April - David Thompson, explorer (died 1857)
 * 1772
 * 10 January - William Jenkins Rees, antiquary (died 1855)
 * July - Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), bard (died 1850)
 * 25 October - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (died 1840)
 * 1773
 * 14 November - Stapleton Cotton, 1st Viscount Combermere, military leader (died 1865)
 * 1774
 * May - John Elias, preacher (died 1841)
 * 24 June - Azariah Shadrach, writer (died 1844)
 * 1775
 * 25 November - Charles Kemble, actor (died 1854)
 * 1776
 * April - Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer (died 1805)
 * 2 August - Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist and politician (died 1858)
 * 1777
 * 15 June - David Daniel Davis, royal obstetrician (died 1841)
 * 29 August - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848)
 * 15 September - John Jones of Ystrad, MP (died 1842)
 * 1778
 * 29 September - Benjamin Hall, industrialist and politician (died 1817)
 * 1779
 * 24 August - Charles Norris, artist (died 1858)

Deaths

 * 1771
 * 15 May - Thomas Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 43
 * date unknown
 * Lewis Hopkin, poet
 * Alban Thomas, doctor, librarian and antiquarian
 * Richard Trevor, former bishop of St David's
 * 1772
 * 16 October - Richard Farrington, antiquary, 71
 * 1773
 * 21 July - Howell Harris, Methodist leader, 59
 * 1774
 * date unknown - Dafydd Nicolas, poet
 * 1775
 * 14 August - Sir Lynch Cotton, 4th Baronet
 * 1776
 * 1 November - Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76
 * date unknown - Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet (in debtors' prison)
 * 1777
 * 4 March - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62
 * April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77
 * 1 July - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, 64
 * 30 August - Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer, 66
 * 18 December - William Lloyd, translator, 60
 * 1778
 * 6 October - William Worthington, priest and author, 74
 * 1779
 * 11 December - "Madam" Bridget Bevan, philanthropist, 81