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
- October 23 - Christmas Evans marries Catherine Jones at Bryncroes chapel in Llŷn, shortly after his own ordination.
- Ironworking begins at Blaenau.
- Blaenavon Ironworks begins production.
Arts and literature
- Thomas Jones organises an eisteddfod in Corwen, where for the first time the public are admitted.
New books
- Richard Price - Love for our Country
Births
- April 22 - Richard Roberts, engineer (died 1864)
- May 24 - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (died 1860)
Deaths
- June 28 - John Walters, priest and poet, 29
- July 24 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician, 39
- August 7 - William Edwards, minister and bridge-builder, 70
- November 26 - Elizabeth Baker, diarist, 70?
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