1776 in Wales
This article is about the significance of the year 1776 to Wales and its people. == Incumbents == Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Sir Nicholas Bayly, 2nd Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Charles Morgan of Dderw Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Wynn Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – George Rice Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (from 10 June) Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Francis Seymour-Conway, 1st Marquess of Hertford (until 21 November); George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (from 21 November) Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Sir Hugh Owen, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer Bishop of Bangor – John Moore Bishop of Llandaff – Shute Barrington Bishop of St Asaph – Jonathan Shipley Bishop of St Davids – James Yorke == Events == 4 July – United States Declaration of Independence signed in Philadelphia.