1764 in Wales
Introduction Events from the year '''1764 in Wales'''.
Incumbents *Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet*Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Thomas Morgan*Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – Thomas Wynn*Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne*Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice*Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Richard Myddelton  *Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet *Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Other Windsor, 4th Earl of Plymouth*Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – William Vaughan*Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Henry Herbert, 1st Earl of Powis *Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir William Owen, 4th Baronet*Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Howell Gwynne*Bishop of Bangor – John Egerton*Bishop of Llandaff – John Ewer*Bishop of St Asaph – Richard Newcome*Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Squire
Events *January – South Wales industrialist Anthony Bacon succeeds John Wilkes as MP for Aylesbury. *February – Thomas Nowell, the new principal of St Mary Hall, Oxford, marries Sarah Munday, daughter of the Mayor of Oxford. *21 June – Humphrey Edwards, physician, begins a voyage round the world as physician on the .
Arts and literature ===New books=======English language====*Rowland Jones – ''The Origin of Language and Nations''*Gabriel Powell – ''Survey of Gower''====Welsh language====*Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd) – ''Some Specimens of the Poetry of the Antient Welsh Bards''*David Powell – ''Sail yr Athrawiaeth Gatholic''*Morgan Rhys – ''Golwg o Ben Nebo''===Music===*31 March – "Jones" performs on the Welsh harp at a benefit concert in Dublin, "in the true Spirit and Taste peculiar to the Genius of his Country".
Births *29 April – Ann Hatton ("Ann of Swansea"), English novelist (d. 1838)*20 June – Thomas Evans (Tomos Glyn Cothi), first Unitarian minister in Wales (d. 1833)*20 July – Sir Robert Williams, 9th Baronet, politician (died 1830)*27 July – John Thelwall, English-born orator, writer, political reformer, journalist and poet (died 1834)*''date unknown''**William Crawshay I, ironmaster (d. 1834)**Robert Waithman, lord mayor of London (d. 1833)
Deaths *17 March – Uvedale Tomkins Price, politician, Steward of the Courts for Denbigh, 78*18 June – Christmas Samuel, minister and writer, 90*22 June – Sir John Philipps, 6th Baronet, 63*26 September – Joseph Harris, Assay-master of the Royal Mint, 60*October – Richard Lathrop, bookseller and printer, age unknown*''date unknown'' – John Richards, preacher and poet, about 44
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