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Шаблон:Use Welsh English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1718 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley[1][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera)[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby[1][3][4]
- Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly[5]
- Bishop of Llandaff – John Tyler[6]
- Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne[7]
- Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley[8]
Events
- February - Prince George William of Wales falls ill (later diagnosed as a heart disease); his parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are allowed by King George I to visit him at Kensington Palace, despite having been banished from the royal presence a few months earlier.[9]
- 11 July - Howell Davis, mate of the Cadogan, is captured by Edward England and decides join the pirates.[10] Davis would subsequently capture another Welsh sailor, Bartholomew Roberts, and turn him to piracy.
- 9 November - Theophilus Evans is ordained by the Bishop of St David's.[11]
- date unknown - The first permanent printing press in Wales is established at Adpar, Cardiganshire.[12]
Arts and literature
New books
- Ifan Gruffudd & Samuel Williams - Pedwar o Ganuau[13]
- Thomas Taylor - The Principality of Wales exactly described... (the first atlas of Wales to be published)[14]
- Alban Thomas - Cân o Senn i'w hen Feistr Tobacco[15]
Births
- July - William Jones, Methodist exhorter (died c.1773)[16]
- date unknown - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet (died 1794)[17]
Deaths
- 17 February - Prince George William of Wales, the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, aged three months
- 30 April - Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet,[18]
- 1 May - Robert Daniell, coloniser of The Carolinas, 71 or 72[19]
- 26 December - Mary Steele, wife of Sir Richard Steele, 40[20]
- date unknown
See also
References
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- ↑ From: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014
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