21 March – A verdict is given in the trial of High Church clergyman Henry Sacheverell, leading to riots breaking out in a number of places, including Wrexham, where a rabble breaks the windows of dissenters' homes and their meeting house.[9]
10 June – Watkin Williams-Wynn, heir to a baronetcy, establishes the "Cycle of the White Rose", a Jacobite group, in North Wales.[10]
John Wynne obtains permission from the bishop's court to change the name of Trelawnyd to "Newmarket", in his quest to make it a centre of the lead industry.[14]
A committee of the House of Commons declares Sir Humphrey Mackworth guilty of "many notorious and scandalous frauds". These included secretly diverting shares into his own account and using the proceeds to pay his own expenses.[15]
A Visitation of the Archdeaconry of Carmarthen to Llandissilio finds that, out of about 120 families in the parish, 40 attend church at Easter, 20 at Whitsuntide and 20 at Christmas and notes that "the Minister suffers in his reputation for being addicted to drinking and swearing".[16]
William Fleetwood, Bishop of St Asaph, encourages his clergy to preach in the Welsh language.[17]
^ abJ.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
^Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN9780806313146.
^Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York, NY: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN9781134982707.
^Charles John Abbey (1887). The English Church and Its Bishops 1700-1800. Longmans, Green. pp. 357–359.
