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 - PoemsKennedy, Deborah, Helen Maria Williams and the Age of Revolution. Bucknell University Press (June 2002). .

Music William Ellis - Ychydig o Hymnau a Chaniadau Newyddion (collection of hymns) Benjamin Francis - Aleluia (collection of hymns)

Births 6 April - John Humffreys Parry, barrister and antiquary (died 1825) May - John Jones, printer and inventor (died 1865) 22 June - Ellis Evans, minister and author (died 1864) 22 July - John Edward Madocks, 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 - Edward Parry, poet and hymn-writer, 63

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