This article is about the particular significance of the year 1718 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729 Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera) Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755 Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly Bishop of Llandaff – John TylerFrom: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014 Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley
Events February - Prince George William of Wales falls ill (later diagnosed as a heart disease); his parents, the Prince and Princess of Wales, are allowed by King George I to visit him at Kensington Palace, despite having been banished from the royal presence a few months earlier.Van der Kiste, John (1997) George II and Queen Caroline. Stroud, Gloucestershire: Sutton Publishing. 11 July - Howell Davis, mate of the Cadogan, is captured by Edward England and decides join the pirates. Davis would subsequently capture another Welsh sailor, Bartholomew Roberts, and turn him to piracy. 9 November - Theophilus Evans is ordained by the Bishop of St David's. date unknown - The first permanent printing press in Wales is established at Adpar, Cardiganshire.
Arts and literature
New books Ifan Gruffudd & Samuel Williams - Pedwar o Ganuau Thomas Taylor - The Principality of Wales exactly described... (the first atlas of Wales to be published) Alban Thomas - Cân o Senn i'w hen Feistr Tobacco
Births July - William Jones, Methodist exhorter (died c.1773) date unknown - Sir Hugh Williams, 8th Baronet (died 1794)
Deaths 17 February - Prince George William of Wales, the second son of the Prince and Princess of Wales, aged three months 30 April - Sir James Morgan, 4th Baronet, 1 May - Robert Daniell, coloniser of The Carolinas, 71 or 72 26 December - Mary Steele, wife of Sir Richard Steele, 40 date unknown Sir Edward Broughton of Marchwiel, former High Sheriff of Denbighshire William Evans, dissenting minister Sir William Myddelton, 4th Baronet, of Chirk
See also 1718 in Scotland
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