• Source: 1789 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1789 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 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (until 24 July); Watkin Williams (from 27 August)
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer
Bishop of Bangor – John Warren
Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson
Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Hallifax (from 4 April)
Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Horsley




Events


July–August - Bread riots break out in North Wales.
23 October - Christmas Evans marries Catherine Jones at Bryncroes chapel in Llŷn, shortly after his own ordination.
8 November - Port Penrhyn opens.
unknown date - Blaenavon Ironworks begins production.




Arts and literature


12 May - Thomas Jones organises an eisteddfod at the New Inn (modern-day Owain Glyndwr Hotel) in Corwen, where for the first time the public are admitted.




= New books

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Jenkin Lewis - Memoirs of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester
Iolo Morganwg - Barddoniaeth Dafydd ab Gwilym, incorporating probable forgeries by Morganwg
Richard Price - Love for our Country




Births


22 April - Richard Roberts, engineer (died 1864)
24 May - Betsi Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (died 1860)




Deaths


28 June - John Walters, priest and poet, 29
24 July - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician, 39
7 August - William Edwards, minister and bridge-builder, 70
26 November - Elizabeth Baker, diarist, 70?




References

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• George III dari Britania Raya
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• Sejarah pertanian
• Kerajaan Britania Raya (1707–1800)
• Pulau Lord Howe
• Lambertia formosa
• Protestanisme
• Charlotte, Putri Kerajaan
• Henry Brydges, Adipati Chandos ke-2
• 1789 in Wales
• French Revolution
• List of years in Wales
• New South Wales Corps
• William Bligh
• List of peers 1780–1789
• Prince of Wales (1789 ship)
• Justinian (1787 ship)
• 1780s in Wales
• 1789 in Great Britain