This article is about the particular significance of the year 1796 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet (from 4 April) Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet (until 26 July); Lloyd Kenyon, 1st Baron Kenyon (from 9 September) Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Thomas Harley
Bishop of Bangor – John Warren Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson Bishop of St Asaph – Lewis Bagot Bishop of St Davids – William Stuart
Events February - The main line of the Monmouthshire and Brecon Canal opens; it is 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 Thomas Pennant - Whiteford and Holywell Uvedale Price - An Essay on the Picturesque Anna Seward - Llangollen Vale and Other Poems 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) 8 January - Eliza Constantia Campbell, author (died 1864) 1 March - John Jones, Talysarn, preacher (died 1857) 30 September - John Mytton, sportsman (died 1834) December - David Owen (Brutus), writer (died 1866)
Deaths February - John Jones, organist, 70?The Musical Times, 1 June 1879 26 July - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet, landowner and politician, 61 8 August - Peter Williams, Methodist writer, 63 date unknown - Ioan Siencyn, poet
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