1777 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1750s; 1760s; 1770s; 1780s; 1790s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1777 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1777 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

1 March - David Samwell, at sea between New Zealand and Tahiti with Captain Cook, writes a pennillion.
22 July - The business partnership between Anthony Bacon and William Brownrigg is dissolved.
Thomas Pennant marries Anne Mostyn, daughter of Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet.
Francis Towne and John White go on a painting tour of North Wales.

15 June - David Daniel Davis, royal obstetrician (died 1841)
29 August - John James, hymn-writer (died 1848)
15 September - John Jones of Ystrad, MP (died 1842)
7 November - Richard Bassett, priest (died 1852)
date unknown
- William Camden Edwards, engraver (died 1855)
- Thomas Rees, Unitarian minister (died 1864)

4 March - Edward Richard, teacher and poet, 62^[2]
5 April - Thomas Lewis, politician, 86
April - John Hodges, Methodist, 77
19 May - Button Gwinnett, American political leader of Welsh parentage, 41 (killed in duel)^[3]
1 July - Sir John Glynne, 6th Baronet, 64
30 August - Dafydd Jones, hymn-writer, 66
18 December - William Lloyd, translator, 60

↑ Philip H. Highfill; Kalman A. Burnim; Edward A. Langhans (1982). A Biographical Dictionary of Actors, Actresses, Musicians, Dancers, Managers, and Other Stage Personnel in London, 1660-1800: Hough to Keyse. SIU Press. pp. 231–. ISBN 978-0-8093-0919-1.
↑ David Gwenallt Jones. "RICHARD, EDWARD (1714-1777), schoolmaster, scholar, and poet". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 October 2018.
↑ "Button Gwinnett". Society of the Descendants of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence. Retrieved 5 October 2018.

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