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) –
Music Aaron Williams - Collection of hymn-tunes
Births 18 February – John Parry, composer (d. 1851) April (baptized 21 April) – Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer (d. 1805) 2 August – Thomas Assheton Smith II, landowner, industrialist, politician, and sportsman (d. 1858) 20 October – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1831) dates unknown John Bryan (died 1856) William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament (d. 1843)
Deaths 26 January – Evan Lloyd, poet, 41 6 April – Hugh Hughes ("Y Bardd Coch"), poet, 83 4 July – Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet (in debtors' prison) 6 September – Joshua Parry, Nonconformist minister and writer, 67 1 November – Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76 December – John Edwards ("Sion y Potiau"), poet, 76/77 10 December – Robert Hay Drummond, Bishop of St Asaph 1748–1761, 65 dates unknown William Evans, lexicographer, age unknown Aaron Williams, composer, about 45
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