1782 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1782 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"

Events

*March - Lloyd Kenyon is appointed Attorney-General.
*April 12 - In the Battle of the Saintes, the British fleet defeat the French after a campaign in which Admiral Sir Thomas Foley has played a major part.
*September 27 - Francis Homfray leases a mill from Anthony Bacon of Cyfarthfa ironworks. (Under the terms of a new Parliamentary Act, Bacon, as an MP, is disqualified from holding government munitions contracts.)
*William Owen Pughe and Robert Hughes (Robin Ddu yr Ail o Fôn) meet in London.
*David Davis (Dafis Castellhywel) settles in Castellhywel.

Arts and literature

New books

*Thomas Pennant - "Journey to Snowdon", volume 1

Music

*William Williams Pantycelyn - "Rhai Hymnau Newyddion" (second in a series of hymn collections)

Births

*January 20 - Sir William Nott, military leader (died 1845)
*December 29 - Sir William Lloyd, soldier and mountaineer (died 1857)

Deaths

*May 15 - Richard Wilson, landscape painter, 54
*November - John Parry, harpist, 72?
*"date unknown" - Lady Catherine Hamilton, formerly Catherine Barlow of Colby, heiress to an estate in south Pembrokeshire which passed to her nephew Charles Francis Greville.