1787 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1787 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget
 * Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw (until 24 May); Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (from 8 June)
 * 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 – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
 * Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer


 * Bishop of Bangor – John Warren
 * Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
 * Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley
 * Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell

Events

 * March - Hester Piozzi returns from Italy with her second husband.
 * November - Richard Crawshay uses puddling at the Cyfarthfa ironworks.
 * December - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), shortly before his death, sells his manuscript collection.
 * date unknown
 * Thomas Charles opens his first Sunday school, at Hengoed.
 * The first Cymmrodorion Society is disbanded.
 * Iolo Morganwg spends time as a prisoner in Cardiff jail.
 * Construction of Margam orangery begins.

New books

 * John Thelwall - Poems upon various subjects

Music

 * Elis Roberts - Pedwar Chwarter y Flwyddyn
 * Nathaniel Williams - Ychydig o Hymnau Newyddion
 * William Williams Pantycelyn - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion

Sport

 * 27 February - Royal British Bowmen, an archery society, formed in Wrexham.

Births

 * 26 May - Richard Jones, printer (died 1855)
 * 8 June - William Conybeare, geologist (died 1857)
 * 9 July - Taliesin Williams, poet and author (died 1847)
 * 2 October - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), historian (died 1848)

Deaths

 * 3 February - Philip David, Independent minister, 77
 * 24 May - Charles Morgan of Dderw, politician, 50
 * 18 June - John Egerton, controversial Bishop of Bangor 1756–1768, 65
 * 3 November - Robert Lowth, Bishop of St David's 1766, 76
 * date unknown
 * William Elias, poet, 79