1777 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1777 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw
 * 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 – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart
 * Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (from 10 June)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
 * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer


 * Bishop of Bangor – John Moore
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley
 * Bishop of St Davids – James Yorke

Events

 * 1 March - David Samwell, at sea between New Zealand and Tahiti with Captain Cook, writes a pennillion.
 * 22 July - The business partnership between Anthony Bacon and William Brownrigg is dissolved.
 * Thomas Pennant marries, as his second wife, Anne Mostyn, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet.
 * Francis Towne and John White go on a painting tour of North Wales.

New books

 * Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Duwdod Crist
 * Nicholas Owen - British Remains
 * Thomas Pennant - British Zoology, vol. 4
 * William Williams Pantycelyn - Ductor Naptiarum: Neu Gyfarwyddwr Priodas

Music

 * Harpist Edward Jones performs at Covent Garden.

Births

 * 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)
 * 7 November - Richard Bassett, Methodist minister (died 1852)
 * date unknown
 * William Camden Edwards, engraver (died 1855)
 * Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (died 1864)

Deaths

 * 4 March - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62
 * 5 April - Thomas Lewis, politician, 86
 * April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77
 * 19 May - Button Gwinnett, American political leader of Welsh parentage, 41 (killed in duel)
 * 28 June - Chase Price, lawyer and politician, 45/6
 * 1 July - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, 64
 * 30 August - Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer, 66
 * 18 December - William Lloyd, translator, 60
 * 23 December - Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, architect who worked in the borders of Wales and England, about 54