1796 in Wales

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

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

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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.

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)

^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c 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.