1728 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1728 to Wales and its people.

← 1727 1726 1725 1724 1723 1728 in Wales → 1729 1730 1731 1732 1733
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s 1740s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1728 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

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

Events

• August - Richard Smalbroke, Bishop of St Davids, commends the treatise on the authority of Scripture by Faustus Socinus, with the result that the work is translated into English and published in 1731 with a dedication to the Queen, Caroline of Ansbach.
• date unknown
  • The Coronet of Frederick, Prince of Wales, is made, probably by royal goldsmith Samuel Shales, at a cost of £140 5/- (one hundred and forty pounds and five shillings)
  • Poet John Morgan becomes vicar of Matching, Essex, which leads to his commonly being known as John Morgan Matchin.[1]
  • Main Street North Wales, Pennsylvania, originally an old Indian trail, is laid out as the "Great Road".
  • Watkin Williams-Wynn, the future 3rd Baronet, is mayor of Oswestry.[2]

Arts and literature

New books

• Richard Lewis, Muscipula, a translation of Edward Holdsworth's Latin satire on the Welsh[3]

Music

• The traditional Welsh folk tune, "The Ash Grove", or something very similar, is featured in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera.

Births

• date unknown - John "Iron-Mad" Wilkinson, English industrialist, owner of Bersham Ironworks and Brymbo Hall (died 1808)[4]
• probable - Edward Owen, translator (died 1807)[5]

Deaths

• 13 September - William Gambold, grammarian, 56[6]

References

1. Edwards, Huw M. (2004). "Morgan, John (1688–1733/4)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online edition, subscription access). Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 April 2008.
2. Cokayne, G.E., ed. (1904). The Complete Baronetage, Volume IV. William Pollard & Co. p. 150.
3. Burt, Daniel S., The Chronology of American Literature: America's literary achievements from the colonial era to modern times, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2004, ISBN 978-0-618-16821-7, retrieved via Google Books
4. Brymbo Steelworks – The last tap, Wrexham County Borough Council
5. Sutton, C. W.; Brown, Sarah Annes (2004). "Owen, Edward (1728/9–1807)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 10 March 2009.
6. Y Bywgraffiadur Ar-lein