1772 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1772 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- May - Walter Siddons appears on stage at Chester and joins the Kemble family troupe.
- The Stepney family of Prendergast sell their Pembrokeshire estates.
- Henry Herbert is promoted to general, shortly before his death.
Arts and literature
New books
- Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) - The Love of our Country
- Jinny Jenks - Tour through Wales
- Iolo Morganwg - Dagrau yr Awen
- Daniel Rowland - Pum Pregeth ac Amryw o Hymnau
Music
- William Williams Pantycelyn writes the words of the missionary hymn "O'er the Gloomy Hills of Darkness".
Births
- 10 January - William Jenkins Rees, antiquary (died 1855)
- July - Edward Hughes (Y Dryw), bard (died 1850)
- 25 October - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (died 1840)
Deaths
- 11 September - Henry Arthur Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis,
- 16 October - Richard Farrington, antiquary, 71