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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1709 to Wales and its people.
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley[1][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of South Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan, Brecknockshire, Cardiganshire, Carmarthenshire, Monmouthshire, Pembrokeshire, Radnorshire) – Thomas Herbert, 8th Earl of Pembroke[1][3]
- 19 July - David Parry is appointed keeper of the Ashmolean Museum, in succession to Edward Lhuyd.[8]
- 1 December - William Gambold, son of John Gambold of Puncheston, becomes rector of Puncheston with Llanychaer.[9]
- date unknown
- Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) takes charge of a school at Laugharne.[10]
- The "Company of Mine Adventures", headed by Humphrey Mackworth, goes bankrupt.[11]
- Humphrey Foulkes becomes rector of Marchwiel.)[12]
New books
- Edward Holdsworth - The mouse-trap; or, The Welsh engagement with the mice (a mock-heroic satire on the Welsh people, published anonymously)[13]
- March - William Wynn, clergyman and poet (died 1760)[14]
- 11 June - Philip David, Independent minister (died 1787)
- date unknown
- Sir William Glynne, 5th Baronet (died 1730)[15]
- Joseph Hoare, academic (died 1802)
- David Williams, schoolmaster (died 1784)[16]
- 22 January - Henry Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Chirbury, politician, 54[17]
- 6 June - James Herbert, politician, about 55[18]
- 30 June - Edward Lhuyd, naturalist and antiquary, 49[19]
- 22 August - John Jones, clergyman and physician, 63/64[20]
- August - Huw Morus, poet, 86/87[21]
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