1777 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1777 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Princess of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Prince of Wales - vacant
Events
- 1 March - David Samwell, at sea between New Zealand and Tahiti with Captain Cook, writes a pennillion.
- 22 July - The business partnership between Anthony Bacon and William Brownrigg is dissolved.
- Thomas Pennant marries Anne Mostyn, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet.
- Francis Towne and John White go on a painting tour of North Wales.
Arts and literature
New books
- Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Duwdod Crist
- Nicholas Owen - British Remains
- Thomas Pennant - British Zoology, vol. 4
- William Williams Pantycelyn - Ductor Naptiarum: Neu Gyfarwyddwr Priodas
Music
- Harpist Edward Jones performs at Covent Garden.[1]
Births
- 15 June - David Daniel Davis, royal obstetrician (died 1841)[2]
- 29 August - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848)[3]
- 15 September - John Jones of Ystrad, MP (died 1842)[4]
- 7 November - Richard Bassett, Methodist minister (died 1852)[5]
- date unknown
- William Camden Edwards, engraver (died 1855)
- Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (died 1864)
Deaths
- 4 March - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62[6]
- 5 April - Thomas Lewis, politician, 86[7]
- April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77
- 19 May - Button Gwinnett, American political leader of Welsh parentage, 41 (killed in duel)[8]
- 1 July - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, 64
- 30 August - Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer, 66
- 18 December - William Lloyd, translator, 60
References
- ^ Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1982). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Hough to Keyse. SIU Press. pp. 231–. ISBN 978-0-8093-0919-1.
- ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Davis, David Daniel (1777-1841), physician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
- ^ Benjamin George Owens. "James, John (1777-1848), Baptist minister, hymn writer, bookbinder, and printer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
- ^ David Williams. "Jones, John (1777-1841), 'of Ystrad', politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
- ^ Gomer Morgan Roberts. "Bassett, Richard (1777-1852), Methodist cleric". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 12 June 2019.
- ^ David Gwenallt Jones. "RICHARD, EDWARD (1714-1777), schoolmaster, scholar, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
- ^ "LEWIS, Thomas (1690-1777), of Harpton Court, nr. Radnor". History of Parliament Online (1754-1790). Retrieved 1 January 2019.
- ^ "Button Gwinnett". Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Retrieved 5 October 2018.