1789 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1789 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George (later George IV)
- Princess of Wales - vacant
Events
- 23 October - Christmas Evans marries Catherine Jones at Bryncroes chapel in Llŷn, shortly after his own ordination.
- Blaenavon Ironworks begins production.[1]
Arts and literature
- 12 May - Thomas Jones organises an eisteddfod at the New Inn (modern-day Owain Glyndwr Hotel) in Corwen,[2] where for the first time the public are admitted.
New books
- Jenkin Lewis - Memoirs of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester[3]
- Richard Price - Love for our Country
Births
- 22 April - Richard Roberts, engineer (died 1864)
- 24 May - Betsi Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (died 1860)[4]
Deaths
- 28 June - John Walters, priest and poet, 29[5]
- 24 July - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician, 39[6]
- 7 August - William Edwards, minister and bridge-builder, 70
- 26 November - Elizabeth Baker, diarist, 70?
References
- ^ The Foundry Trade Journal. Institute of Cast Metals Engineers. 1972.
- ^ Mary-Ann Constantine; Dafydd R. Johnston (15 April 2013). Footsteps of 'Liberty and Revolt': Essays on Wales and the French Revolution. University of Wales Press. pp. 166–. ISBN 978-0-7083-2591-9.
- ^ The Gentleman's Magazine. E. Cave. 1789. p. 339.
- ^ Roberts, Alun (2002). Welsh National Heroes. ISBN 9780862436100.
- ^ Griffith John Williams. "WALTERS, JOHN (1760-1789), cleric, poet, and scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
- ^ 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