1769 in Wales

Incumbents

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

  Events

• August
• *John Wesley is turned away from Welshpool town hall by the bailiff when he attempts to preach there during his tour of Wales.
• *Wesley speaks at Newtown, Montgomeryshire, and Llanidloes.
• August/September - Robert Williams, a Welsh travelling preacher, arrives in America, the first licensed preacher to obtain permission from John Wesley to address the Methodist societies there.
• 16 November - Henry Bayley succeeds to the barony of Beaudesert and takes the surname Paget.
• date unknown
• *Daniel Rowland turns down the living of Newport, Pembrokeshire, to stay with his congregation at Llangeitho.
• *Thomas Pennant employs Moses Griffith to illustrate his books of tours.

  Arts and literature

New books

• Elizabeth Griffith - The School for Rakes
• William Williams - Ffarwel Weledig, vol. 3

  Music

• Elis Roberts - Gras a Natur

  Births

• January - David Saunders, poet
• 2 February - Griffith Williams, poet
• 23 March - Benjamin Heath Malkin, antiquary and author
• 6 December - Thomas Morgan, naval chaplain

  Deaths

• 27 March - John Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian, 32
• April - Marmaduke Gwynne, father-in-law of Charles Wesley, 77/78
• 12 April - Thomas Morgan, politician and lawyer, 66
• July - Goronwy Owen, poet, 46
• 19 August - Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician, 49