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{{Year in Wales header|1719}}This article is about the particular significance of the year 1719 to Wales and its people. Incumbents- Prince of Wales - George (later George II)
- Princess of Wales - Caroline of Ansbach
Events- March - The 41st (Welch) Regiment of Foot is raised by Colonel Edmund Fielding as Edmund Fielding's Regiment of Foot.[1]
- date unknown
- The wrought-iron gates at Chirk Castle and St Giles' Church, Wrexham, are completed by the Davies Brothers of Bersham.
- The first permanent legal printing press in Wales is established at Adpar by Isaac Carter of Carmarthenshire. It is believed that its first two publications are Cân o Senn i’w hen Feistr Tobacco by Alban Thomas and Cân ar Fesur Triban ynghylch Cydwybod a’i Chynheddfau.[2]
- On the death without heirs of Sir John Wynne, the Wynnstay estate passes to Jane Thelwall, the great-granddaughter of Sir John Wynn, 1st Baronet.
- The Welsh Charity School in London moves to Ailesbury Chapel, Clerkenwell, where it remains until about 1721.[3]
Arts and literatureNew books- Christmas Samuel - Catecism o'r Scrythur
Births- February - William Edwards, clergyman and bridge engineer (d. 1789)
- 22 February - Joshua Thomas, writer and Particular Baptist minister (d. 1797)
- 17 June - Joshua Parry, nonconformist minister and writer (d. 1776)
- 30 November - Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, future Princess of Wales (d. 1772)
- date unknown - Sir Herbert Lloyd, 1st Baronet, politician (d. 1769)
Deaths- 11 January - Sir John Wynn, 5th Baronet, 90[4]
- 19 June - Captain Howell Davis, pirate, ca 29
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/041-719.htm |title=41st (the Welsh) Regiment of Foot |publisher=regiments.org |deadurl=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070223230119/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/inf/041-719.htm |archivedate=23 February 2007 |access-date=21 May 2018}} 2. ^{{cite web|title=About Adpar |work=Newcastle Emlyn and Adpar |url=http://www.newcastle-emlyn.com/adpar |accessdate=2012-02-11 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20091008070817/http://www.newcastle-emlyn.com/adpar |archivedate=2009-10-08 |df= }} 3. ^{{cite book |editor-first=Philip |editor-last=Temple |chapter=Clerkenwell Green |series=Survey of London |volume=46 |title=South and East Clerkenwell |place=New Haven, London |publisher=English Heritage |year=2008 |pages=86–114 |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119413#s14 |ISBN=9780300137279 }} 4. ^{{cite DNB|wstitle=Wynn, John|volume=63}}
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