# 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

## Arts and literature
### 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