1786 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1786 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
• 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
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet (until 16 January); Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (from 11 June)
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley
• Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell

Events

• 25 December - Plymouth ironworks is leased to Richard Hill.
• The Kinmel estate is sold to the Rev Edward Hughes for £42,000.
• Abraham Rees completes his edition of Chambers 's Encyclopaedia, and is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his work.
• Charles Pratt is created Earl Camden.

Arts and literature

New books

• David Samwell - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook
• Hester Lynch Piozzi - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life
• Helen Maria Williams - Poems

Music

• William Ellis - Ychydig o Hymnau a Chaniadau Newyddion (collection of hymns)
• - Aleluia (collection of hymns)

Births

• 6 April - John Humffreys Parry, barrister and antiquary (died 1825)
• May - , printer and inventor (died 1865)
• 22 June - , minister and author (died 1864)
• 22 July - , MP for Denbigh (died 1837)

Deaths

• 16 January - Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet, politician, about 55
• 21 January - Anthony Bacon, ironmaster, 67
• 12 March - Barbara Herbert, Countess of Powis, 51
• 2 July (bur.) - John Ystumllyn, gardener, "first well-recorded black person of North Wales"
• 16 September - , poet and hymn-writer, 63

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