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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1728 to Wales and its people.




Incumbents


Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – George Cholmondeley, 2nd Earl of Cholmondeley
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Sir William Morgan of Tredegar
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 2nd Viscount Lisburne
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – James Brydges, 1st Duke of Chandos
Bishop of Bangor – Thomas Sherlock (from 4 February)
Bishop of Llandaff – Robert Clavering
Bishop of St Asaph – Francis Hare
Bishop of St Davids – Richard Smalbroke




Events


4 February - Thomas Sherlock is consecrated Bishop of Bangor.
August - Richard Smalbroke, Bishop of St Davids, commends the treatise on the authority of Scripture by Faustus Socinus, with the result that the work is translated into English and published in 1731 with a dedication to the Queen, Caroline of Ansbach.
date unknown
The Coronet of Frederick, Prince of Wales, is made, probably by royal goldsmith Samuel Shales, at a cost of £140 5/- (one hundred and forty pounds and five shillings)
Poet John Morgan becomes vicar of Matching, Essex, which leads to his commonly being known as John Morgan Matchin.
Main Street North Wales, Pennsylvania, originally an old Indian trail, is laid out as the "Great Road".
Watkin Williams-Wynn, the future 3rd Baronet, is mayor of Oswestry.




Arts and literature






= New books

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Richard Lewis, Muscipula, a translation of Edward Holdsworth's Latin satire on the Welsh
John Roderick, Grammadeg Cymraeg




= Music

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The traditional Welsh folk tune, "The Ash Grove", or something very similar, is featured in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.




Births


date unknown
John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson, English industrialist, owner of Bersham Ironworks and Brymbo Hall (died 1808)
probable
Daines Barrington, judge in North Wales (died 1800
Edward Owen, translator (died 1807)




Deaths


13 September - William Gambold, grammarian, 56




References

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• Henry Brydges, Adipati Chandos ke-2
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• Teh
• Samudra Selatan
• Hannah Glasse
• Daftar sejarawan
• 1728 in Wales
• List of years in Wales
• Frederick, Prince of Wales
• Prince of Wales
• 1728 in Great Britain
• William, Prince of Wales
• Arthur, Prince of Wales
• List of governors of dependent territories in the 18th century
• Charles III
• Edward VII