1776 in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – George
• Princess of Wales – vacant

  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.
• dates unknown –
• *Herbert Mackworth is created a baronet.
• *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

• Thomas Churchyard – The Worthines of Wales, a Poem
• Evan Evans – Casgliad o Bregethau
• Hugh Jones – Gardd y Caniadau
• David Powell – Allwydd y Nef. O gasgliad D.P. Off.

  Music

Births

• April – Ann Griffiths, hymn-writer
• 2 August – Thomas Assheton Smith II, landowner, industrialist, politician, and sportsman
• 20 October – Sir Thomas Mostyn, 6th Baronet, politician
• date unknown –
• *William Henry Scourfield, Member of Parliament

  Deaths

• 26 January – Evan Lloyd, poet, 41
• 6 April – Hugh Hughes, poet, 83
• 1 November – Miles Harry, Baptist minister, 76
• December – John Edwards, poet, 76/77
• dates unknown –
• *Sir John Powell Pryce, 6th Baronet
• *William Evans, lexicographer, age unknown
• *Aaron Williams, composer, about 45