1762 in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George
• Princess of Wales - vacant

  Events

• Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis, leaves the Whig party.
• Silvanus Bevan is elected a member of the Cymmrodorion.

  Arts and literature

New books

• Thomas Edwards - Tri Chydymaith Dyn
• Oliver Goldsmith - The Life of Richard Nash
• William Williams Pantycelyn - Pantheologia, neu Hanes Holl Grefyddau’r Byd

  Music

• William Williams Pantycelyn - Mor o Wydr

  Births

• 12 August - George, Prince of Wales, later King George IV
• 11 October - David Charles, hymn-writer
• date unknown
• *Samuel Homfray, iron-master
• *William Jones, bookseller, religious writer, and member of the Scotch Baptist church in Finsbury, London.
• *John Williams, evangelical cleric

  Deaths

• 3 February - Beau Nash, leader of fashion, 87
• 2 May - John Salusbury, diarist, 54
• 2 May - Margaret Lloyd, Moravian worker and activist, 53