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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1720 - 1729 to Wales and its people. Incumbents- Prince of Wales
- George (until 1727) (became George II)
- Frederick (from January 8, 1729)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach (until 1727)
Events1720 {{main|1720 in Wales}}- Charles Hanbury Williams succeeds to the estate of his godfather, and takes the surname Williams.
1721 {{main|1721 in Wales}}- December 30 - Bridget Vaughan marries Arthur Bevan, a barrister.
1722 {{main|1722 in Wales}}1723 {{main|1723 in Wales}}1724 {{main|1724 in Wales}}- A charity school is built at Caerleon-on-Usk as the result of a bequest from Charles Williams.
1725 {{main|1725 in Wales}}- 4 May - Ann Thomas (the "Maid of Cefn Ydfa") marries Anthony Maddocks.
- Silvanus Bevan is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society on the recommendation of Sir Isaac Newton.
1726 {{main|1726 in Wales}}- 26 July - Prince Frederick, son of the Prince of Wales, is created Baron Snowdon by his grandfather, King George I of Great Britain.
1727 {{main|1727 in Wales}}- The Piercefield estate is sold for £3,366, 5.6d to Thomas Rous of Wotton-under-Edge.
1728 {{main|1728 in Wales}}1729 {{main|1729 in Wales}}- 8 January - Prince Frederick, son of King George II, is created Prince of Wales, nearly two years after his father's accession.
- 1 March - A St. David's Society is established by Welsh immigrants in Philadelphia.
- 19 October - John Harris becomes Bishop of Llandaff.
- Zachariah Williams is admitted as a poor brother pensioner of the Charterhouse in London.
Arts and literatureNew books1721 - Ellis Pugh - Annerch ir Cymru (first Welsh book published in America)
1723 - Henry Rowlands - Mona Antiqua Restaurata
- Christmas Samuel - Llun Agrippa
1724 - Owen Wynne - The Life of Sir Leoline Jenkins
1725 - Dafydd Lewys - Golwg ar y Byd
1729 - Christmas Samuel - Golwg ar y Testament Newydd
MusicBirths1720 - July 22 - Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1769)
1722 - May 9 - Morgan Edwards, Baptist historian (d. 1795)
1723 - February 23 - Richard Price, philosopher (d. 1791)
- March 5 - Princess Mary of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
1724 - April - Joshua Eddowes, printer and bookseller (d. 1811)
- December 4 - Princess Louise of Wales, daughter of the Prince and Princess of Wales (d. 1751)
1725 - May - Llewellin Penrose, painter
- September 7 - Francis Homfray, industrialist (d. 1798)
1726 - June 14 - Thomas Pennant, traveller and writer (d. 1798)
- William Jones, poet, antiquary and radical (d. 1795)
Deaths1720 - March 7 - John Morgan (of Rhiwpera), politician, 49
- April/May - Robert Wynne, clergyman and poet
- August 29 - Charles Williams, merchant, 87
- December 31 - John Wynne, industrialist
1721 - July 8 - Elihu Yale, benefactor of Yale University, 72
- date unknown - Sir William Glynne, 2nd Baronet
1722 - February 10 - Bartholomew Roberts, pirate ("Black Bart"), 39 (in battle)
- November 16 - John Vaughan, reformer, 59
1723 - December 28 - Sir Charles Lloyd, 1st Baronet, of Milfield, politician, 61
1724 - March 22 - John Evans, Bishop of Bangor and Meath, 73?
- June 1 - Erasmus Saunders, clergyman, 54?
- date unknown - Richard Bulkeley, 4th Viscount Bulkeley
1725 - December 15 - Francis Edwardes, politician
1729 - April 29 - Sir Stephen Glynne, 3rd Baronet, 64
- September - Sir Stephen Glynne, 4th Baronet, 35?
- September 1 - Sir Richard Steele, satirist, 57
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