1777 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1777 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Princess of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Prince of Wales - vacant

Events

• 1 March - David Samwell, at sea between New Zealand and Tahiti with Captain Cook, writes a pennillion.
• 22 July - The business partnership between Anthony Bacon and William Brownrigg is dissolved.
• Thomas Pennant marries Anne Mostyn, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet.
• Francis Towne and John White go on a painting tour of North Wales.

Arts and literature

New books

• Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Duwdod Crist
• Nicholas Owen - British Remains
• Thomas Pennant - British Zoology, vol. 4
• William Williams Pantycelyn - Ductor Naptiarum: Neu Gyfarwyddwr Priodas

Music

Births

• 15 June - David Daniel Davis, royal obstetrician (died 1841)
• 29 August - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848)
• 15 September - John Jones of Ystrad, MP (died 1842)
• 7 November - Richard Bassett, priest (died 1852)
• date unknown
  • William Camden Edwards, engraver (died 1855)
  • Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (died 1864)

Deaths

• 4 March - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62
• 5 April - Thomas Lewis, politician, 86
• April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77
• 19 May - Button Gwinnett, American political leader of Welsh parentage, 41
• 1 July - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, 64
• 30 August - Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer, 66
• 18 December - William Lloyd, translator, 60