1789 in Wales
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Template:Short description Template:Use Welsh English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Year in Wales header This article is about the particular significance of the year 1789 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget[1][2][3][4]
- Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort[5]
- Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley[6]
- Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne[2]
- 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[7]
- Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (until 24 July); Watkin Williams (from 27 August)[8]
- Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis[2]
- Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford[2][9]
- Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer[10][2]
- Bishop of Bangor – John Warren[11][12]
- Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson[13]
- Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Hallifax (from 4 April)[14]
- Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Horsley[15]
Events
- July–August - Bread riots break out in North Wales.[16]
- 23 October - Christmas Evans marries Catherine Jones at Bryncroes chapel in Llŷn, shortly after his own ordination.
- 8 November - Port Penrhyn opens.[17]
- unknown date - Blaenavon Ironworks begins production.[18]
Arts and literature
- 12 May - Thomas Jones organises an eisteddfod at the New Inn (modern-day Owain Glyndwr Hotel) in Corwen,[19] where for the first time the public are admitted.
New books
- Jenkin Lewis - Memoirs of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester[20]
- Iolo Morganwg - Barddoniaeth Dafydd ab Gwilym, incorporating probable forgeries by Morganwg[21]
- Richard Price - Love for our Country
Births
- 22 April - Richard Roberts, engineer (died 1864)
- 24 May - Betsi Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (died 1860)[22]
Deaths
- 28 June - John Walters, priest and poet, 29[23]
- 24 July - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician, 39[24]
- 7 August - William Edwards, minister and bridge-builder, 70[25]
- 26 November - Elizabeth Baker, diarist, 70?[26]
References
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- ↑ Thomas, Peter, D.G., Biography in History of Parliament Online, extracted from The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754–1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964
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