This article is about the particular significance of the year 1783 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet (until 1 August) Henry Paget (from 1 August) Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne 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 Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Bishop of Bangor – John Moore (until 26 April) John Warren (from 26 April) Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell (from 6 July)
Events 20 August - Thomas Charles marries Sally Jones and settles in Bala. 26 September - Industrialist and slave-owner Richard Pennant is created 1st Baron Penrhyn in the county of Lough. Welsh emigrant Evan Williams founds a whiskey distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, United States, which will still be operating in the 21st century.
Arts and literature New books Julia Ann Hatton - Poems on Miscellaneous Subjects
Music Evan Hughes (Hughes Fawr) - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion o Fawl i'r Oen
Births 11 February - Thomas Richard, minister (died 1856) 16 March - Henry Williams-Wynn, politician (died 1856) May - Cadwaladr Jones, minister and literary editor (died 1867) unknown dates Hugh Jones, archdeacon of Essex (died 1869)
Deaths 19 June - Henry Lloyd, soldier and military writer 7 August - Thomas Llewellyn, Baptist minister and writer, 63? 2 September - Edward Edwards, academic 6 September - Anna Williams, friend of Dr Johnson, 77? 16 December - Sir William James, 1st Baronet, naval commander, 61-62
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