1756 in Wales

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
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry (until 13 January); Howell Gwynne (from 13 January)
• Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce (until 4 June); John Egerton (from 4 July)
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Newcome
• Bishop of St Asaph – Robert Hay Drummond
• Bishop of St Davids – Anthony Ellys

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.
• 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.
• Lewis Morris loses his post as collector of tolls at Aberdyfi.

Arts and literature

New books

• Hugh Hughes – Cywydd Galarnadd am ynys Minorca...
• Sion Kadwaladr – Einion a Gwenllian

Music

• Elis Roberts – "Argulus"

Births

• January – Richard Griffiths, industrial pioneer who opened up transport links into the Rhondda (died 1826)
• 7 June – Edward Davies ("Celtic" Davies), writer (died 1831)
• 23 June – Thomas Jones, mathematician (died 1807)
• 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)
• Simon Lloyd, Methodist preacher (died 1836)

Deaths

• 12 June – Lewis Evans, surveyor, 56?
• 5 August – Sir George Wynne, 1st Baronet, landowner and politician, 56
• 14 September – William Parry, antiquarian and fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 69
• 23 September – John Talbot, judge and MP for Brecon, about 43/44
• 28 October – Charles Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort, 47

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