1734 in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Frederick
• Princess of Wales - vacant

  Events

• March - In a report to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, missionary Griffith Hughes claims to have travelled over 1,100 miles in the Pennsylvania region in the course of his preaching.
• 30 March - First entry in the diary of William Bulkeley.
• date unknown
• *Original construction of Cilewent Farmhouse, now located at St Fagans National History Museum.
• *Daniel Rowland marries Eleanor Davies of Caer-llugest and is ordained a deacon.

  Arts and literature

New books

English language

• Edmund Curll - The Life of Robert Price … one of the Justices of His Majesty's Court of Common-Pleas

  Welsh language

• Simon Thomas - Athrawiaethau Difinyddawl

  Births

• 20 January - Robert Morris, Welsh-born American merchant
• 15 April - Evan Lloyd, poet
• 3 July - Henry Herbert, 10th Earl of Pembroke
• 24 October - Thomas Henry, apothecary

  Deaths

• 14 June
• *Francis Gwyn, politician, 85
• *John Hanbury, industrialist, 70?
• 13 July - Ellis Wynne, clergyman and writer, 63
• October - Thomas Lloyd, lexicographer, 61?
• 26 December - Salusbury Lloyd, politician,
• date unknown - Elisha Beadles, South Wales-based Quaker leader, 74?