1759 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1759 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1759 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George III)
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 19 September - The Dowlais Iron Company is formed.
• date unknown - Evan Davies resigns as head of the Welsh Academy, following a rift between the Presbyterian and Congregational Fund Boards.^[1]

Arts and literature

New books

• Blodeu-gerdd Cymry (ed. Dafydd Jones)
• John Wesley - Primitive Physick, translated by John Evans of Bala

Music

• William Williams (Pantycelyn) - Rhai Hymnau a Chaniadau Duwiol

Births

• 1 January - Joseph Foster-Barham, owner of the Trecŵn estate (died 1832)^[2]
• 11 February - John Rice Jones, Welsh-born American politician (died 1824)
• 16 March - Sir John Nicholl, politician and judge (died 1838)
• 7 August - William Owen Pughe, lexicographer (died 1835)
• 10 September - George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke (died 1827)
• 18 October - Theophilus Jones, historian (died 1812)
• date unknown - David Thomas ("Dafydd Ddu Eryri"), (died 1822)

Deaths

• 11 August - John Heylyn, Welsh-descended clergyman, 74
• 27 September - Isaac Maddox, Bishop of St Asaph, 62
• 2 November - Charles Hanbury Williams, diplomat and satirist, 50

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