1721
in
Wales
Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1700s
  • 1710s
  • 1720s
  • 1730s
  • 1740s
See also:List of years in Wales
Timeline of Welsh history
1721 in
Great Britain
Scotland
Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1721 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Events

  • 11 January – Printer Isaac Carter marries Ann Lewis at Cenarth.[10]
  • May – Prince William, the youngest child of the Prince and Princess of Wales, is taken ill with suspected smallpox; it turns out to be a false alarm, but inoculation becomes popular among aristocratic families as well as the royal family.[11]
  • 30 DecemberBridget Vaughan marries Arthur Bevan, a barrister.

Arts and literature

New books

  • Ellis Pugh – Annerch ir Cymru (first Welsh book published in America)[12]
  • John Prichard Prys – Difyrwch Crefyddol[13]

Births

Deaths

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
  2. Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
  3. Brown, Richard (1991). Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850. London England New York: Routledge. p. 25. ISBN 9781134982707.
  4. West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales. W. Spurrell and son. 1916. p. 167.
  5. "Hoadly, Benjamin". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/13375. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  6. "Reynolds, Richard (1674–1743)" . Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
  7. From: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014
  8. Stephen Hyde Cassan (1829). Lives of the Bishops of Bath. p. 162.
  9. Davies, J. D. "Ottley, Adam". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/63755. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  10. William Llewelyn Davies. "CARTER, ISAAC (d. 1741), printer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
  11. Cedric A. Mims (19 June 2000). The War Within Us: Everyman's Guide to Infection and Immunity. Elsevier. pp. 44–45. ISBN 978-0-08-054267-6.
  12. Bob Owen. "Ellis, Rowland (1650-1731), Welsh-American Quaker". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  13. Ray Looker. "Prys, John Prichard (fl. c. 1704-1721), poet, of Eglwys-ael (Llangadwaladr) in Anglesey". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 28 March 2019.
  14. "Hughes, Jonathan (1721 - 1805)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
  15. Crowe, Richard (May 2005). "Walters, John (bap. 1721, d. 1797)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 12 February 2009.
  16. "Vaughan, John I (1667-1721), of Trawscoed, Llanafan, Card". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  17. "Boston Erects Tablet in Honor of Elihu Yale". The Harvard Crimson. 25 January 1927. Retrieved 25 June 2011.
  18. Hayton, D. W. (2002). "Williams, Sir Edward (1659-1721)". In Hayton, David; Cruickshanks, Eveline; Handley, Stuart (eds.). The House of Commons 1690-1715. The History of Parliament Trust.
  19. "GLYNNE, Sir William, 2nd Bt. (1663-1721), of Bicester and Ambrosden, Oxon., and Hawarden, Flints". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 27 June 2013.
  20. "Edwards, Thomas (1652 - 1721)". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales.
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