1783 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1783 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet (until 1 August) Henry Paget (from 1 August)
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw
 * Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
 * Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
 * Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
 * 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
 * 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 (until 26 April) John Warren (from 26 April)
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley
 * Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell (from 6 July)

Events

 * 20 August - Thomas Charles marries Sally Jones and settles in Bala.
 * 26 September - Industrialist and slave-owner Richard Pennant is created 1st Baron Penrhyn in the county of Lough.
 * Welsh emigrant Evan Williams founds a whiskey distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, United States, which will still be operating in the 21st century.

New books

 * Julia Ann Hatton - Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects

Music

 * Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion o Fawl i'r Oen

Births

 * 11 February - Thomas Richard, minister (died 1856)
 * 16 March - Henry Williams-Wynn, politician (died 1856)
 * May - Cadwaladr Jones, minister and literary editor (died 1867)
 * unknown dates
 * Hugh Jones, archdeacon of Essex (died 1869)

Deaths

 * 19 June - Henry Lloyd, soldier and military writer
 * 7 August - Thomas Llewellyn, Baptist minister and writer, 63?
 * 2 September - Edward Edwards, academic
 * 6 September - Anna Williams, friend of Dr Johnson, 77?
 * 16 December - Sir William James, 1st Baronet, naval commander, 61-62