1731 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1731 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- April - Trader Robert Jenkins has his ear cut off by Spanish coast guards in Cuba leading to the War of Jenkins' Ear in 1739.[1]
- September 22 - Griffith Jones (Llanddowror) writes to the SPCK proposing that a Welsh school be set up at Llanddowror. This marks the beginning of the circulating schools movement.
Arts and literature
New books
- Humphrey Lhuyd - Britannicae Descriptionis Commentariolum
- Edward Samuel - Athrawiaeth yr Eglwys
Other
- 23 April - Henry Fielding's latest work, The Welsh Opera, is performed in Haymarket. It includes personal attacks on the Prince of Wales.[2]
Births
- 20 May - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), poet (died 1788)
- date unknown
- Siôn Robert Lewis, author and hymn-writer (died 1806)
- Aaron Williams, composer (died 1776)
Deaths
- 6 April - David Lloyd, Welsh-born American lawyer, 74
- 24 April - William Morgan of Tredegar (the elder), 31
- September - Rowland Ellis, Quaker leader, 81 (in America)
- 4 September - John Roberts, MP for Denbigh, 59?
- 9 October - William Stanley, Dean of St Asaph, 84
- date unknown - Thomas Jones of Lincoln's Inn, founder of the Honourable and Loyal Society of Antient Britons
References
- ^ Williams, Hywel (2005). Cassell's Chronology of World History. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson. p. 303. ISBN 0-304-35730-8.
- ^ Loftis, John. The Politics of Drama in Augustan England. Oxford: Clarendon, 1963. p. 105