:1717 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1717 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Lord Lieutenant of North Wales (Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey, Caernarvonshire, Denbighshire, Flintshire, Merionethshire, Montgomeryshire) – Hugh Cholmondeley, 1st Earl of Cholmondeley{{cite book | author=J.C. Sainty | author-link=John Sainty (civil servant) | title=List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974 | publisher=Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd | location=London | year=1979}}{{cite book | last = Nicholas | first = Thomas | title = Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales | publisher = Genealogical Pub. Co | location = Baltimore | year = 1991 | isbn = 9780806313146 | page=695}}
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – vacant until 1729
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – John Morgan (of Rhiwpera)
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – John Vaughan, 1st Viscount Lisburne
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – vacant until 1755
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Arthur Owen, 3rd Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Coningsby, 1st Earl Coningsby{{cite book | last = Brown | first = Richard | title = Church and state in modern Britain, 1700-1850 | publisher = Routledge | location = London England New York, NY | year = 1991 | isbn = 9781134982707 | page=25}}{{cite book|title=West Wales Historical Records: The Annual Magazine of the Historical Society of West Wales|publisher=W. Spurrell and son|year=1916|page=167}}

Bishop of Bangor – Benjamin Hoadly{{Cite ODNB|id=13375|title=Hoadly, Benjamin}}
Bishop of Llandaff – John TylerFrom: 'Tracie-Tyson', Alumni Oxonienses 1500–1714 (1891), pp. 1501–1528. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=119393 Date accessed: 1 October 2014
Bishop of St Asaph – John Wynne{{cite book|author= Stephen Hyde Cassan|title=Lives of the Bishops of Bath|year=1829|page=162}}
Bishop of St Davids – Adam Ottley{{ODNBweb|id=63755|title=Ottley, Adam|first=J. D.|last=Davies}}

31 March - In the presence of King George I of Great Britain, Benjamin Hoadly, Bishop of Bangor, gives a sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ", beginning the Bangorian Controversy.
19 September - Japanning of tinplate begins at Pontypool.Chris Barber, Eastern Valley: The Story of Torfaen (Llanfoist: Blorenge Books, 1999), p.37
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The Lower Swansea valley's first copper smelting works is opened by John Lane and John Pollard (possibly his step father-in-law) at Llangyfelach, Landore.{{cite book|title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopedia of Wales|location=Cardiff|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=2008}}R. O. Roberts, 'Dr John Lane and the foundation of the non-ferrous metal industry in the Swansea valley' Gower 4 (1951), 19-24.
Welsh-born David Lloyd is appointed Chief Justice of the supreme court of Pennsylvania.

James Davies – Particular Thoughts on Religion{{cite DWB|id=s-DAVI-JAM-1648|title=Davies, James (Iaco ap Dewi; 1648-1722) |author=Garfield Hopkin Hughes|access-date=23 May 2017}}
Benjamin Hoadly – The Nature of the Kingdom, or Church of Christ{{cite book|author=Benjamin Hoadly|title=The Nature of the Kingdom, Or Church, of Christ: A Sermon Preach'd Before the King, at the Royal Chapel at St. James's, on Sunday March 31, 1717|publisher=James Knapton, at the Crown, and Timothy Childe, at the White Hart, in St. Paul's Church-Yard|year=1717}}

Meddylieu Neillduol ar Grefydd
Moses Williams – {{lang|cy|Cofrestr o'r holl lyfrau printiedig gan mwyaf a gyfansoddwyd yn yr iaith Gymraeg}} (first-ever catalogue of Welsh printed books){{cite book|author=Jeff Strabone|title=Poetry and British Nationalisms in the Bardic Eighteenth Century: Imagined Antiquities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TSt1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA159|date=26 October 2018|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-3-319-95255-0|pages=159}}

11 February - William Williams (Pantycelyn), poet, hymn-writer and religious leader (died 1791){{cite DWB|id=s-WILL-WIL-1717|title=Williams, William (1717-1791), Methodist cleric, author, and hymn-writer|author=Gomer Morgan Roberts|fewer-links=yes|access-date=18 January 2020}}
13 November - Prince George William, first child born to the new Prince and Princess of Wales, George and Caroline, since their arrival in Britain (died 1718){{London Gazette |issue=5587 |date=2–5 November 1717 |page=2 }}

20 May - John Trevor, politician, 80?{{cite DWB|id=s-TREV-OR0-0940|title=Trevor family, of Brynkynallt, Denbighshire|author=Arthur Herbert Dodd|fewer-links=yes|access-date=18 January 2020}}
3 June - Thomas Watson, former Bishop of St David's, 80Handley, S. (2004) "[http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/28868 Watson, Thomas (1637–1717)]", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, accessed 21 Aug 2007 (subscription required)
30 August - William Lloyd, former Bishop of St Asaph, 90Chalmer's Biography 1812, William Lloyd (1627–1717); vol. 20, p. 347
date unknown - William Robinson, MP, about 50{{cite web|url=http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1690-1715/member/robinson-william-1668-1717|title=ROBINSON, William (c.1668–1717), of Gwersyllt, Denb.|publisher=History of Parliament Online|accessdate=19 July 2013}}