1777 in Wales
Encyclopedia
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1777 to Wales
and its people
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Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
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Incumbents
- Princess of WalesPrincess of WalesPrincess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
- George, Princess RegentGeorge IV of the United KingdomGeorge IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later... - Prince of WalesPrince of WalesPrince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
- vacant
Events
- March 1 - David SamwellDavid SamwellDavid Samwell was a Welsh naval surgeon and poet. He was an important supporter of Welsh cultural organisations and was known by the pseudonym Dafydd Ddu Feddyg.-Personal history:...
, at sea between New Zealand and Tahiti with Captain Cook, writes a pennillion. - July 22 - The business partnership between Anthony BaconAnthony Bacon (industrialist)Anthony Bacon was an English-born merchant and industrialist who was significantly responsible for the emergence of Merthyr Tydfil as the iron-smelting centre of Britain.-Background:...
and William BrownriggWilliam BrownriggWilliam Brownrigg M.D. F.R.S. was a doctor and scientist, who practised at Whitehaven in Cumberland. While there, William Brownrigg carried out experiments that won him not only a place in The Royal Society but the prized Copley Medal....
is dissolved. - Thomas PennantThomas PennantThomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century...
marries Anne Mostyn, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet. - Francis TowneFrancis TowneFrancis Towne was a British watercolour landscape painter.-Biography:Towne was born in Isleworth in Middlesex the son of a corn chandler. In 1752 he was apprenticed to a leading coach painter in London, Thomas Brookshead...
and John White go on a painting tour of North Wales.
New books
- Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Duwdod Crist
- Nicholas OwenNicholas OwenNicholas David Arundel Owen is a British journalist and television presenter. He now works for the BBC, presenting on the BBC News channel and BBC One.-Biography:...
- British Remains - Thomas PennantThomas PennantThomas Pennant was a Welsh naturalist and antiquary.The Pennants were a Welsh gentry family from the parish of Whitford, Flintshire, who had built up a modest estate at Bychton by the seventeenth century...
- British Zoology, vol. 4 - William Williams PantycelynWilliam Williams PantycelynWilliam Williams Pantycelyn , also known as Williams Pantycelyn and Pantycelyn, is generally acknowledged as Wales' most famous hymn writer. He was also one of the key leaders of the 18th century Welsh Methodist revival, along with Daniel Rowland and Howell Harris. As a poet and prose writer he is...
- Ductor Naptiarum: Neu Gyfarwyddwr Priodas
Births
- June 15 - David Daniel DavisDavid Daniel DavisDavid Daniel Davis M.D. F.R.C.P. was a British physician.Born David Davies in Llandyfaelog in Wales, he received his M.D. from the University of Glasgow in 1801. He set up his practice as a physician in Sheffield, living in Paradise Square from 1803 to 1812...
, royal obstetrician (died 1841) - August 29 - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848)
- September 15 - John Jones of YstradJohn Jones of YstradJohn Jones "of Ystrad" , was a Welsh politician, MP for Carmarthen from 1821 to 1832.He was born in King Street, Carmarthen, the son of a solicitor. Educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, he went on to Lincoln's Inn to qualify as a barrister...
, MP (died 1842)
Deaths
- March 4 - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62
- April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77
- July 1 - Sir John Glynne, 6th BaronetSir John Glynne, 6th BaronetSir John Glynne, 6th Baronet was a Welsh politician and landowner.Glynne was the third son of Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, and succeeded to the baronetcy after the successive deaths of his father and elder brothers in 1729 and 1730...
, 64 - August 30 - Dafydd JonesDafydd JonesDafydd Jones is a retired Welsh rugby union footballer, who played in the back row for the Llanelli Scarlets in the Magners League. He has also played for Wales...
, hymn-writer, 66 - December 18 - William Lloyd, translator, 60