1776 in Wales

This article is about the significance of the year 1776 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 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (from 10 June)
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford (until 21 November); George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (from 21 November)
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

• Bishop of Bangor – John Moore
• Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley
• Bishop of St Davids – James Yorke

Events

• 4 July – United States Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia. Sixteen of the 56 signatories are of Welsh descent, Francis Lewis having been born in Llandaff.
• 22 July – Sir Richard Philipps, 7th Baronet, is created 1st Baron Milford in the peerage of Ireland.
• 24 August – Herbert Mackworth is created a baronet.
• dates unknown
• John, Lord Mountstuart is created Baron Cardiff of Cardiff Castle.
• Sir Thomas Wynn, 3rd Baronet, is created Baron Newborough in the Peerage of Ireland.

Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Churchyard – The Worthines of Wales, a Poem
• Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) – Casgliad o Bregethau
• Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) – Gardd y Caniadau
• David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân) – '