1788 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1788 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- March 18 - Great Sessions at Wrexham hear a graveyard dispute between the "Old" and "New" chapels at Llanuwchllyn.
- June 4 - Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon, becomes Chief Justice of the King's Bench.
Arts and literature
New books
- John Roberts (Siôn Robert Lewis) - Yr Athrofa Rad
- Hester Lynch Piozzi - Letters to and from the late Samuel Johnson
Births
- February 12 - William Williams, MP (died 1865)
- October 3 - John Montgomery Traherne, antiquary (died 1860)
Deaths
- August 4 - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd or Ieuan Brydydd Hir), clergyman and poet, 57