1792 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1792 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - George, Prince Regent
• Princess of Wales - vacant

Events

• 21 June - Iolo Morganwg holds the first Gorsedd ceremony at Primrose Hill in London.
• June - The Merthyr to Newbridge section of the Glamorganshire Canal is completed.
• Bodnant House is built.
• Completion of the Merthyr to Pontypridd section of the Glamorganshire Canal.
• Monmouthshire Canal receives its Act of Parliament.

Arts and literature

New books

• David Davis (Castellhywel) - Cri Carcharor dan farn Marwolaeth
• Nicholas Owen - Carnarvonshire, a Sketch of its History, etc.
• Hester Thrale - The Three Warnings

Births

• 23 July - Aneurin Owen, scholar (d. 1851)
• 5 September - Sir David Davies, royal physician (d. 1865)
• 11 November - Mary Anne Evans (d. 1872), future wife of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli
• 20 December - David Griffiths, missionary (d. 1863)
• date unknown - Sir Charles John Salusbury, Baronet (d. 1868)

Deaths

• 10 March - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, friend of Augusta, Princess of Wales and ancestor of the Marquesses of Bute, 78
• 2 May - John Jones (Ioan Tegid), writer, 60
• 17 May - Sir Noah Thomas, royal physician, 72?
• 27 June - John Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 48