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Шаблон:Use Welsh English Шаблон:Use dmy dates Шаблон:Year in Wales header Events from the year 1756 in Wales.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley[1][2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth[3]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice[4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet[1]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry (until 13 January); Howell Gwynne (from 13 January)[5][1]
- Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce (until 4 June);[6] John Egerton (from 4 July)[7]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome[8]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond[9]
- Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys[10]
Events
- 5 January - An article appears in The New York Mercury, criticising the work of Lewis Evans in identifying boundaries in his General Map of the Middle British Colonies in America.[11]
- Spring - Completion of Britain's longest single-span bridge (at this date), William Edwards' Old Bridge, Pontypridd, over the River Taff, at the third (or fourth) attempt.[12]
- Lewis Morris loses his post as collector of tolls at Aberdyfi.[13]
Arts and literature
New books
Music
- Elis Roberts - "Argulus"
Births
- January - Richard Griffiths, industrial pioneer who opened up transport links into the Rhondda (died 1826)[16]
- 7 June - Edward Davies ("Celtic" Davies), writer (died 1831)
- 23 June - Thomas Jones, mathematician (died 1807)[17]
- 4 July - John Evans, surgeon and cartographer (died 1846)
- 18 November - Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's (died 1837)
- date unknown
- Thomas Jones of Denbigh, minister and author (died 1820)[18]
- Simon Lloyd, Methodist preacher (died 1836)
Deaths
- 12 June - Lewis Evans, surveyor, 56?[11]
- 5 August - Sir George Wynne, 1st Baronet, landowner and politician, 56[19]
- 14 September - William Parry, antiquarian and fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 69[20]
- 23 September - John Talbot, judge and MP for Brecon, about 43/44[21]
- 28 October - Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort, 47[22]
References
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