1776 in Wales

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

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
• Princess of Wales - vacant

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.^[1][2]
• 22 July - Sir Richard Philipps, 7th Baronet, is created 1st Baron Milford in the peerage of Ireland.
• John, Lord Mountstuart is created Baron Cardiff of Cardiff Castle.
• Sir Thomas Wynn, 3rd Baronet, is created Baron Newborough.
• Herbert Mackworth is created a baronet.

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Churchyard - The Worthines of Wales, a Poem
• 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.

Music

Births

• 21 April (bapt.) - Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer (died 1805)
• 2 August - Thomas Assheton Smith II, landowner, industrialist, politician and sportsman (died 1858)
• unknown - William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament (died 1843)

Deaths

• 26 January - Evan Lloyd, poet, 41
• 1 November - Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76
• date unknown
  • John Edwards (Sion y Potlau), poet, c.76
  • Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet (in debtors' prison)

References

1. "Welsh in the New World". A Brief History of Wales. GoBritannia!. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
2. Williams, David (Summer 1942). "The Contribution of Wales to the United States of America". National Library of Wales Journal (GENUKI) 2 (3/4). Retrieved 2014-05-07.