1729 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales Timeline of Welsh history 1729 in Great Britain Scotland Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1730 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Frederick (from 8 January)
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 8 January - Prince Frederick, son of King George II, is created Prince of Wales, nearly two years after his father's accession.
• 1 March - A St. David's Society is established by Welsh immigrants in Philadelphia.
• 13 March - Bussy Mansel, 4th Baron Mansel, marries Barbara Villiers, daughter of William Villiers, 2nd Earl of Jersey.
• 19 October - John Harris becomes Bishop of Llandaff.
• date unknown
  • Zachariah Williams is admitted as a poor brother pensioner of the Charterhouse in London.
  • Lewis Morris, eldest of the noted Morris brothers of Anglesey, becomes a customs official.

Arts and literature

New books

• Christmas Samuel - Golwg ar y Testament Newydd

Births

• 6 January - Anne Penny, née Hughes, poet (died 1784)
• probable - Joseph Turner, architect (died 1807)

Deaths

• 29 April - Sir Stephen Glynne, 3rd Baronet, 64
• June - Thomas Baddy, Independent minister and author
• September - Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, 35?
• 1 September - Sir Richard Steele, satirist, 57