1776 in Wales

This article is about the significance of the year 1776 to Wales and its people.

← 1775 1774 1773 1772 1771 1776 in Wales → 1777 1778 1779 1780 1781
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1750s 1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s
See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1776 in Great Britain Scotland Elsewhere

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Wynn^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (from 10 June)^[9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford (until 21 November); George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (from 21 November)^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer^[10][2]

• Bishop of Bangor – John Moore^[11]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington^[12]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley^[13]
• Bishop of St Davids – James Yorke^[14]

Events

• 4 July – United States Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia. Sixteen of the 56 signatories are of Welsh descent, Francis Lewis having been born in Llandaff.^[15][16]
• 22 July – Sir Richard Philipps, 7th Baronet, is created 1st Baron Milford in the peerage of Ireland.^[17]
• 24 August – Herbert Mackworth is created a baronet.^[18]
• dates unknown
  • John, Lord Mountstuart is created Baron Cardiff of Cardiff Castle.
  • Sir Thomas Wynn, 3rd Baronet, is created Baron Newborough in the Peerage of Ireland.^[19]

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Churchyard – The Worthines of Wales, a Poem^[20]
• Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) – Casgliad o Bregethau
• Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) – Gardd y Caniadau
• David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân) – Allwydd y Nef. O gasgliad D.P. Off.^[21]

Music

• Aaron Williams - Collection of hymn-tunes^[22]

Births

• 18 February – John Parry, composer (d. 1851)^[23]
• April (baptized 21 April) – Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer (d. 1805)^[24]
• 2 August – Thomas Assheton Smith II, landowner, industrialist, politician, and sportsman (d. 1858)
• 20 October – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1831)
• dates unknown
  • John Bryan (died 1856)^[25]
  • William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament (d. 1843)^[26]

Deaths

• 26 January – Evan Lloyd, poet, 41^[27]
• 6 April – Hugh Hughes ("Y Bardd Coch"), poet, 83^[28]
• 4 July – Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet (in debtors' prison)^[29][30]
• 6 September – Joshua Parry, Nonconformist minister and writer, 67^[31]
• 1 November – Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76^[32]
• December – John Edwards ("Sion y Potiau"), poet, 76/77^[33]
• 10 December – Robert Hay Drummond, Bishop of St Asaph 1748–1761, 65^[34]
• dates unknown
  • William Evans, lexicographer, age unknown^[35]
  • Aaron Williams, composer, about 45^[36]