1739 in Wales
| |||||
| Centuries: |
| ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Decades: |
| ||||
| See also: |
| ||||
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1739 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- March - Diarist William Bulkeley of Brynddu is a bearer at the funeral of Richard Bulkeley, 5th Viscount Bulkeley.
- The roof of St Mary's Church, Swansea, collapses into the nave just before a Sunday morning service.
- Samuel and Nathaniel Buck produce the first of their prints of Wales.
- A new parish church is built at Willington Worthenbury.
Arts and literature
New books
- John Reynolds - The Scripture Genealogy and Display of Herauldry
Births
- January - Thomas Edwards (Twm o'r Nant), dramatist and poet (died 1810)
- March 14 - Prince Edward, Duke of York and Albany, second son and third child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1767)
- April 3 - Hugh Davies, botanist (died 1821))
- date unknown - Richard Crawshay, industrialist (died 1810)
Deaths
- May 5 - Sir Roger Mostyn, 3rd Baronet, 65
- June - John Griffith, MP for Caernarvonshire
References
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, January 18, 2015. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.