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