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This article is about the significance of the year 1776 to Wales and its people.




Incumbents


Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw
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 – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (from 10 June)
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford (until 21 November); George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (from 21 November)
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Bishop of Bangor – John Moore
Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington
Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley
Bishop of St Davids – James Yorke




Events


4 July – United States Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia. Sixteen of the 56 signatories are of Welsh descent, Francis Lewis having been born in Llandaff.
22 July – Sir Richard Philipps, 7th Baronet, is created 1st Baron Milford in the peerage of Ireland.
24 August – Herbert Mackworth is created a baronet.
dates unknown
John, Lord Mountstuart is created Baron Cardiff of Cardiff Castle.
Sir Thomas Wynn, 3rd Baronet, is created Baron Newborough in the Peerage of Ireland.




Arts and literature






= New books

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Thomas Churchyard – The Worthines of Wales, a Poem
Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) – Casgliad o Bregethau
Hugh Jones (Maesglasau) – Gardd y Caniadau
David Powell (Dewi Nantbrân) – Allwydd y Nef. O gasgliad D.P. Off.




= Music

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Aaron Williams - Collection of hymn-tunes




Births


18 February – John Parry, composer (d. 1851)
April (baptized 21 April) – Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer (d. 1805)
2 August – Thomas Assheton Smith II, landowner, industrialist, politician, and sportsman (d. 1858)
20 October – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet, politician (d. 1831)
dates unknown
John Bryan (died 1856)
William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament (d. 1843)




Deaths


26 January – Evan Lloyd, poet, 41
6 April – Hugh Hughes ("Y Bardd Coch"), poet, 83
4 July – Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet (in debtors' prison)
6 September – Joshua Parry, Nonconformist minister and writer, 67
1 November – Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76
December – John Edwards ("Sion y Potiau"), poet, 76/77
10 December – Robert Hay Drummond, Bishop of St Asaph 1748–1761, 65
dates unknown
William Evans, lexicographer, age unknown
Aaron Williams, composer, about 45




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