Events from the year 1752 in Wales.

Incumbents

*Lord Lieutenant of North Wales ( Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey,

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, Flintshire, Merionethshire,

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) – George Cholmondeley, 3rd Earl of Cholmondeley * Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan –

Charles Powlett, 3rd Duke of Bolton Charles Powlett (sometimes spelled Paulet), 3rd Duke of Bolton (3 September 168526 August 1754), styled Earl of Wiltshire from 1685 until 1699, and Marquess of Winchester from 1699 until 1722, was a British landowner and Whig politician who sat ...

* Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan * Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 3rd Viscount Lisburne * Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – ''vacant until 1755'' * Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton * Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire –

Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet (c. 1674–1753), of Orielton, Pembrokeshire, was a Welsh Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons between 1695 and 1727. Early life Owen was the eldest surviving son Sir Hugh Owen, 2nd B ...

* Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – William Perry * Bishop of Bangor – Zachary Pearce * Bishop of Llandaff –

Edward Cresset Edward Cresset (c. 1698 – 1755) was an 18th-century Anglican churchman. Cresset was born in Glympton, Oxfordshire and educated at Trinity College, Oxford. He was successively Dean of Clogher; Dean of Hereford; and Bishop of Llandaff The Bis ...

Bishop of St Asaph The Bishop of St Asaph heads the Church in Wales diocese of St Asaph. The diocese covers the counties of Conwy and Flintshire, Wrexham county borough, the eastern part of Merioneth in Gwynedd and part of northern Powys. The Episcopal seat is loca ...

– Robert Hay Drummond * Bishop of St Davids – The Hon. Richard Trevor (until 7 December)

Events

* April - A quarryman is killed in an attempted raid on a granary at Caernarfon. * 5 June - Frances, mother of Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, purchases the Mathafarn estate on her son's behalf. * 9 November - Richard Trevor becomes Bishop of Durham. *''unknown dates'' ** Howell Harris founds the ''Teulu Trefeca'' ("The Trefeca family") **

Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet (1713 – 1 July 1777) was a Welsh politician and landowner. Glynne was the third son of Sir Stephen Glynne, 3rd Baronet, and succeeded to the baronetcy after the successive deaths of his father and elder brothers in ...

, builds

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. ** A turnpike road opens between Wrexham and

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. ** The first Methodist chapel in Caernarfonshire is built on land adjoining Tŷ-mawr farm, Bryncroes.

Arts and literature

New books

* John Evans - ''Some Account of the Welch Charity Schools'' * Theophilus Evans - ''A History of Modern Enthusiasm''

Music

*John Parry - ''A Collection of Welsh, English & Scotch Airs'' *Harri Llwyd - ''Hymnau ar Amryw Ystyriaethau''

Births

* 2 January - Nicholas Owen, priest and antiquary (died

1811 Events January–March * January 8 – An unsuccessful slave revolt is led by Charles Deslondes, in St. Charles and St. James Parishes, Louisiana. * January 17 – Mexican War of Independence – Battle of Calderón Brid ...

) * 18 January **

Josiah Boydell Josiah Boydell (18 January 1752 – 27 March 1817) was a British publisher and painter, whose main achievement was the establishment of the Boydell Shakespeare Gallery with his uncle, John Boydell. Biography Boydell was born in Hawarden, ...

, painter (died 1817) ** John Nash, architect (died

1835 Events January–March * January 7 – anchors off the Chonos Archipelago on her second voyage, with Charles Darwin on board as naturalist. * January 8 – The United States public debt contracts to zero, for the only time in history. ...

) * March - Edward Jones (Bardd y Brenin), harpist (died

1824 May 7: The almost completely deaf Beethoven premieres his Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven) , Ninth Symphony Events January–March * January 8 – After much controversy, Michael Faraday is finally elected as a member of the Royal Society, ...

) *

5 November Events Pre-1600 *1138 – Lý Anh Tông is enthroned as emperor of Vietnam at the age of two, beginning a 37-year reign. *1499 – The '' Catholicon'', written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc in Tréguier, is published; this is the first Bret ...

- Richard Richards, judge (died

1823 Events January–March * January 22 – By secret treaty signed at the Congress of Verona, the Quintuple Alliance gives France a mandate to invade Spain for the purpose of restoring Ferdinand VII (who has been captured by armed revolutio ...

) *

12 December Events Pre-1600 * 627 – Battle of Nineveh: A Byzantine army under Emperor Heraclius defeats Emperor Khosrau II's Persian forces, commanded by General Rhahzadh. *1388 – Maria of Enghien sells the lordship of Argos and Nauplia ...

- Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, politician (died

1822 Events January–March * January 1 – The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus. *January 3 - The famous French explorer, Aimé Bonpland, is made prisoner in Paraguay accused of being a spy. ...

) * ''date unknown'' **

Richard Llwyd Richard Llwyd, also known as The Bard of Snowdon (1752 – 29 December 1835), was a Welsh author, poet and expert on Welsh heraldry and genealogy. His most notable work is the poem ''Beaumaris Bay'', which was published in 1800. Life history Llw ...

, poet and writer (died 1835) ** Thomas Assheton Smith I, industrialist (died 1828)

Deaths

23 April Events Pre-1600 *215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. *599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern ...

- James Bulkeley, 6th Viscount Bulkeley, 35 *

31 May Events Pre-1600 * 455 – Emperor Petronius Maximus is stoned to death by an angry mob while fleeing Rome. *1223 – Mongol invasion of the Cumans: Battle of the Kalka River: Mongol armies of Genghis Khan led by Subutai defeat ...

- "Madam" Sidney Griffith, Methodist (born c.1720) *

17 November Events Pre-1600 * 887 – Emperor Charles the Fat is deposed by the Frankish magnates in an assembly at Frankfurt, leading his nephew, Arnulf of Carinthia, to declare himself king of the East Frankish Kingdom in late November. *1183 &ndas ...

- Thomas Powell, politician, about 51 *''probable'' - Edward Roberts, mayor of Philadelphia, USA (born c.1690)

References

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