1774 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1774 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Wynn
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - William Vaughan
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Robert Clive (until 2 November)
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

• Bishop of Bangor – John Ewer (until 28 October) John Moore
• Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley
• Bishop of St Davids – Charles Moss (until 2 June); James Yorke (from 26 June)

Events

• July - Dr Samuel Johnson accompanies Hester Thrale and her husband on a visit to North Wales.
• unknown dates
• John Wilkinson takes out a patent for cannon-boring at his works in Bersham.
• An Act of Parliament establishes the Improvement Commissioners, responsible for paving, cleaning streets and providing oil lamp lighting in Cardiff.
• Construction work is completed on Morris Castle, "Wales's first block of flats".
• Edward Jones, an "exhorter" at Whitefield's Tabernacle, Moorfields, and a lay preacher, begins holding Welsh-language services in Cock Lane, Smithfield, London.

Arts and literature

New books

• Hugh Hughes - Rheolau Bywyd Dynol (translation of Robert Dodsley's The Oeconomy of Human Life
• Dafydd Jones - Marwnad Enoch Ffransis
• Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) - Cydymaith yr Hwsmon

Music

• William Williams Pantycelyn - Ychydig Hymnau (hymns)

Paintings

• Thomas Jones - '
• Richard Wilson - Llyn y Cau, Cadair Idris