This article is about the particular significance of the year 1766 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan 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 – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - William Vaughan Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne (until 12 July); Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer (from 16 July)
Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton Bishop of Llandaff – John Ewer Bishop of St Asaph – Richard Newcome Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Squire (until 7 May); Robert Lowth (from 14 June); Charles Moss (from 30 November)
Events 19 February - Thomas Kymer is granted an Act of Parliament allowing him to construct the Kidwelly and Llanelly Canal. 12 May - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet, marries Margaret, daughter of Rev Hugh Wynn and heiress to the Bodysgallen estate. July - Maurice Morgann becomes an under-secretary to the Earl of Shelburne, then Secretary of State for the South. In November he is made secretary of the Province of New Jersey. 12 November - John, Lord Mountstuart marries Charlotte Jane, granddaughter of Thomas Windsor, 1st Viscount Windsor. unknown date - The Welsh-language periodical Yr Awstralydd is launched by William Meirion Evans in Australia.
Arts and literature New books English language Evan Lloyd - The Powers of the Pen Anna Williams - Miscellanies in Prose and Verse
Welsh language David Jones of Trefriw (ed.) - Cydymaith Diddan Dafydd Jones - Salmau Dafydd Lloffion Prydyddiaeth ... Mr. Rees Prichard John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - Drych y Cristion William Williams Pantycelyn - Ffarwel Weledig, part 2
Music Elis Roberts - Oliffernes a Jiwdath
Paintings Richard Wilson - Meleager and Atalanta
Births March - William Turner, industrialist (died 1853) 10 November - John Jones (Jac Glan-y-gors), satirical poet and radical pamphleteer (died 1821) 6 December - Robert Williams (Robert ap Gwilym Ddu), poet (died 1850) 18 December - Charles Lloyd, dissenting minister and schoolmaster (died 1829) 25 December - Christmas Evans, preacher (died 1838) unknown date Martha Llwyd, hymnodist (died 1845) Henry Parry, clergyman and antiquarian (died 1854)
Deaths 1 January - James Francis Edward Stuart, 77, nominally Prince of Wales from his birth until 1701 19 January - Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne, landowner 30 January - John Jeffreys, 59, politician June - Evan Edwards, 32, harpist 7 May - Samuel Squire, 51/52, Bishop of St Davids 17 November - Morgan Morgan, 78, Welsh-born American colonist (in America) date unknown - Milbourn Bloom, independent minister
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