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1786 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1786toWales and its people.

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget^[1][2][3][4]
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw^[5]
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley^[6]
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart^[7]
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet^[8]
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis^[2]
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet (until 16 January); Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford (from 11 June)^[2][9]
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer^[10][2]

• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren^[11][12]
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson^[13]
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley^[14]
• Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell^[15]

• 25 December - Plymouth ironworks is leased to Richard Hill.
• The Kinmel estate is sold to the Rev Edward Hughes for £42,000.^[16]
• Abraham Rees completes his edition of Chambers 's Encyclopaedia, and is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in recognition of his work.
• Charles Pratt is created Earl Camden.

• David Samwell - A Narrative of the Death of Captain James Cook
• Hester Lynch Piozzi - Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson, Ll.D., during the last twenty years of his life^[17]
• Helen Maria Williams - Poems^[18]

• William Ellis - Ychydig o Hymnau a Chaniadau Newyddion (collection of hymns)^[19]
• Benjamin Francis - Aleluia (collection of hymns)

• 6 April - John Humffreys Parry, barrister and antiquary (died 1825)^[20]
• May - John Jones, printer and inventor (died 1865)
• 22 June - Ellis Evans, minister and author (died 1864)^[21]
• 22 July - John Edward Madocks, MP for Denbigh (died 1837)

• 16 January - Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet, politician, about 55^[22]
• 21 January - Anthony Bacon, ironmaster, 67^[23]
• 12 March - Barbara Herbert, Countess of Powis, 51^[24]
• 2 July (bur.) - John Ystumllyn, gardener, "first well-recorded black person of North Wales"
• 16 September - Edward Parry, poet and hymn-writer, 63