1792 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1792 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 - Richard Myddelton
- Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet
- Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Watkin Williams
- 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 – Samuel Horsley
Events
- 3 June - Monmouthshire Canal receives its Act of Parliament.
- 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.
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
- 10 February - John Jones (Ioan Tegid), writer
- 10 April - Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar, politician
- 9 June - David Arthur Saunders Davies, politician
- 23 July - Aneurin Owen, scholar
- 27 July - Llewelyn Lloyd, naturalist
- 5 September - Sir David Davies, royal physician
- 11 November - Mary Anne Evans, future wife of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli
- 20 December - David Griffiths, missionary
- date unknown
- * Thomas Davies, physician
- * Daniel Evans, poet
- * Sir Charles John Salusbury, 3rd Baronet
Deaths
- 23 February - Thomas Ellis, clergyman, about 80
- 10 March - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, friend of Augusta, Princess of Wales and ancestor of the Marquesses of Bute, 78
- 17 May - Sir Noah Thomas, royal physician, 72?
- 27 June - John Morgan (of Dderw), politician, 48
- September - John Edwards, poet, 44/45