1796 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1796 to Wales and its people.

← 1795 1794 1793 1792 1791 1796 in Wales → 1797 1798 1799 1800 1801
Centuries:	16th 17th 18th 19th 20th
Decades:	1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
See also:	List of years in Wales 1796 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
• Princess of Wales - Caroline of Brunswick

Events

• February - The main line of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal opens; it is 12.5 miles (20.1 km) long, and runs from Newport to Pontnewynydd, via Pontymoile, rising by 447 feet (136.3m) through 42 locks.
• 27 February - John Stuart is created Marquess of Bute.
• June - At the British general election, Richard Pennant, 1st Baron Penrhyn, backed by Bishop John Warren, challenges sitting MP Sir Robert Williams, the sitting member for Caernarvonshire; Sir Robert is easily re-elected.
• John Wilkinson blows in blast furnace No. 1 on the site that becomes Brymbo Steelworks.

Arts and literature

New books

• Charles Heath - The Excursion Down the Wye[1]
• Thomas Pennant - Whiteford and Holywell
• Uvedale Price - An Essay on the Picturesque[1]
• Anna Seward - Llangollen Vale and Other Poems[1]
• David Williams - The History of Monmouthshire

Births

• 7 January - Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales, only child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (died 1817)[2]
• 8 January - Eliza Constantia Campbell, author (died 1864)[3]
• 1 March - John Jones, Talysarn, preacher (died 1857)[4]
• 30 September - John Mytton, sportsman (died 1834)[5]
• December - David Owen (Brutus), writer (died 1866)

Deaths

• February - John Jones, organist, 70?[6]
• 26 July - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet, landowner and politician, 61[7]
• 8 August - Peter Williams, Methodist writer, 63
• date unknown - Ioan Siencyn, poet

References

1. Enoch Robert G. Salisbury (1873). A catalogue of Cambric books at Glan-aber, Chester, A.D. 1500-1799. p. 67.
2. J. Coote (1818). A Biographical Memoir of the Much Lamented Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales and Saxe Coburg. J. Barfield. p. 18.
3. Robert Thomas Jenkins. "Campbell (Morrieson), Eliza Constantia (1796-1864), author". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
4. Gerald Norris (June 1981). A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. David & Charles. p. 305. ISBN 978-0-7153-7845-8.
5. Bernard Burke (1869). Vicissitudes of Families. Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer. p. 333.
6. The Musical Times, 1 June 1879
7. "MOSTYN, Sir Roger, 5th Bt. (1734-96), of Mostyn, Flints. and Gloddaeth, Caern". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 26 March 2016.