1787 in Wales

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=24}}{{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}}{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru|publisher=University of Wales Press|year=1992|page=169}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw (until 24 May); Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort (from 8 June){{cite book| author=Edwin Poole|title=The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions|publisher=Edwin Poole|year=1886|page=378}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=26}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart{{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=612}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet{{cite book|author=Edward Breese|title=Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth|year=1873|page=29}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford{{cite DWB|id=s-PHIL-PIC-1491|title=Philipps family, of Picton|author=Bertie George Charles|date=1959|access-date=19 October 2021}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer{{cite book|author=Jonathan Williams|title=The History of Radnorshire|publisher=R. Mason|year=1859|page=115}}

• Bishop of Bangor – John Warren{{cite book|author=Thomas Duffus Hardy|title=Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales...|publisher=University Press|year=1854|page=305}}{{cite book|title=The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged|publisher=Porter|year=1780|page=95}}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson{{cite book|author=John Henry James|title=A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff|publisher=Western Mail|year=1898|page=16}}
• Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley{{cite book|title=The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England|publisher=James Parkes and Company|year=1866|page=15}}
• Bishop of St Davids – Edward Smallwell{{cite book|title=Guides and Handbooks|publisher=Royal Historical Society (Great Britain)|year=1939|page=163}}

• March - Hester Piozzi returns from Italy with her second husband.{{cite book | last = McCarthy | first = William | title = Hester Thrale Piozzi, portrait of a literary woman | publisher = University of North Carolina Press | location = Chapel Hill | year = 1985 | isbn = 9780807816592 | page=51 | language=en}}
• November - Richard Crawshay uses puddling at the Cyfarthfa ironworks.{{cite book|author=Charles K. Hyde|title=Technological Change and the British Iron Industry, 1700-1870|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FVmYDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA91|date=12 March 2019|publisher=Princeton University Press|isbn=978-0-691-65634-2|pages=91}}
• December - Evan Evans (Ieuan Fardd), shortly before his death, sells his manuscript collection.
• date unknown
• Thomas Charles opens his first Sunday school, at Hengoed.{{cite book|author=James Comper GRAY|title=Sunday School World: an encyclopædia of facts ... on Sunday-School Matters. Edited by J. C. G.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rn6dDaupk_QC&pg=PA11|year=1871|pages=11}}
• The first Cymmrodorion Society is disbanded.{{cite book|author1=Emrys Jones|author2=Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England)|title=The Welsh in London, 1500-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BTQIAQAAMAAJ|date=21 September 2001|publisher=University of Wales Press on behalf of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion|isbn=978-0-7083-1697-9|page=94}}
• Iolo Morganwg spends time as a prisoner in Cardiff jail.{{cite book|author=Unitarian Historical Society, London|title=Transactions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ywo9AAAAIAAJ|year=1959|page=99}}
• Construction of Margam orangery begins.{{cite book|author=Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments in Wales|title=An Inventory of the Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lm4CmIvbAa4C&pg=PA323|year=1976|publisher=RCAHMW|isbn=978-0-11-700754-3|pages=323}}
• The Baptist Association endorses the "pocket Bible" published by David Jones and Peter Williams.{{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-DAV-1741|title=Jones, David (1741-1792), Baptist minister|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|year=1959|access-date=6 October 2024}}

• John Thelwall - Poems upon various subjects

• Elis Roberts - Pedwar Chwarter y Flwyddyn
• Nathaniel Williams - Ychydig o Hymnau Newyddion
• William Williams Pantycelyn - Rhai Hymnau Newyddion

• 27 February - Royal British Bowmen, an archery society, formed in Wrexham.{{cite book |author= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5vAbtwEACAAJ |title=Regulations of the Society of Royal British Bowmen. Established, February 27th. 1787 |date=21 April 2018 |publisher=Creative Media Partners, LLC |isbn=978-1-385-06773-4}}

• 26 May - Richard Jones, printer (died 1855){{cite DWB|id=s-JONE-RIC-1787|title=Jones, Richard (1787-1855?), printer and publisher|author=William Llewelyn Davies|date=1959|access-date=1 November 2021}}
• 8 June - William Conybeare, geologist (died 1857){{cite book|title=Academic American Encyclopedia|publisher=Grolier Incorporated|year=1996|page=262}}
• 9 July - Taliesin Williams, poet and author (died 1847){{cite DWB|id=s-WILL-TAL-1787|title=Williams, Taliesin (Taliesin ab Iolo; 1787-1847), poet and author|author=Griffith John Williams|date=1959|access-date=31 October 2021}}
• 2 October - Thomas Price (Carnhuanawc), historian (died 1848){{cite DWB|id=s-PRIC-THO-1787|title=Price, Thomas (Carnhuanawc; 1787-1848), historian and antiquary|author=Brinley Rees|author-link=Brinley Rees|date=1959|access-date=31 October 2021}}

• 3 February - Philip David, Independent minister, 77{{cite DWB|title=Philip David|id=s-DAVI-PHI-1709|last=Williams|first=Griffith John|access-date=13 December 2016}}
• 24 May - Charles Morgan of Dderw, politician, 50{{cite book|author1=Lewis Namier|author2=John Brooke|title=The House of Commons 1754-1790|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Taw7DVGrbRcC&pg=PA165|year=1985|publisher=Boydell & Brewer|isbn=978-0-436-30420-0|pages=165–}}
• 18 June - John Egerton, controversial Bishop of Bangor 1756–1768, 65.{{cite DNB|wstitle= Egerton, John (1721-1787) |volume= 17 |last= Sutton |first= Charles William |author-link= Charles William Sutton |pages= 158-159 |year= |short=1}}
• 3 November - Robert Lowth, Bishop of St David's 1766, 76{{cite book|title=The Royal Kalendar, Or, Complete and Correct Annual Register for England, Scotland, Ireland, and America, for the Year ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hH8UAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA3-PA65|year=1817|publisher=J. Debrett.|pages=3}}
• date unknown - William Elias, poet, 79

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