1756 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1730s; 1740s; 1750s; 1760s; 1770s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1756 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Events from the year 1756 in Wales.

Incumbents

Completion of Britain's longest single-span bridge (at this date), William Edwards' Old Bridge, Pontypridd, over the River Taff, at the third attempt.
Lewis Morris loses his post as collector of tolls at Aberdovey.

January - Richard Griffiths, industrial pioneer who opened up transport links into the Rhondda (died 1826)
7 June - Edward Davies ("Celtic" Davies), writer (died 1831)
23 June - Thomas Jones, mathematician (died 1807)
4 July - John Evans, surgeon and cartographer (died 1846)
18 November - Thomas Burgess, Bishop of St David's (died 1837)
date unknown
- Thomas Jones of Denbigh, minister and author (died 1820)
- Simon Lloyd, Methodist preacher (died 1836)

14 September - William Parry, antiquarian and fellow of Jesus College, Oxford, 69
28 October - Charles Noel Somerset, 4th Duke of Beaufort, 47
date unknown - Lewis Evans, surveyor, 56?

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