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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1789 to Wales and its people.

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Incumbents

Bishop of Bangor â John Warren^[11]^[12]
Bishop of Llandaff â Richard Watson^[13]
Bishop of St Asaph â Samuel Hallifax (from 4 April)^[14]
Bishop of St Davids â Samuel Horsley^[15]

Events

JulyâAugust - Bread riots break out in North Wales.^[16]
23 October - Christmas Evans marries Catherine Jones at Bryncroes chapel in LlÅ·n, 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, mechanical engineer and inventor (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

[1]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 24.
[2]
J.C. Sainty (1979). List of Lieutenants of Counties of England and Wales 1660-1974. London: Swift Printers (Sales) Ltd.
[3]
Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 695. ISBN 9780806313146.
[4]
Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1992. p. 169.
[5]
Edwin Poole (1886). The Illustrated History and Biography of Brecknockshire from the Earliest Times to the Present Day: Containing the General History, Antiquities, Sepulchral Monuments and Inscriptions. Edwin Poole. p. 378.
[6]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 26.
[7]
Nicholas, Thomas (1991). Annals and antiquities of the counties and county families of Wales. Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co. p. 612. ISBN 9780806313146.
[8]
Edward Breese (1873). Kalendars of Gwynedd; or, Chronological lists of lords-lieutenant [&c.] ... for the counties of Anglesey, Caernarvon, and Merioneth. p. 29.
[9]
Bertie George Charles (1959). "Philipps family, of Picton". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 October 2021.
[10]
Jonathan Williams (1859). The History of Radnorshire. R. Mason. p. 115.
[11]
Thomas Duffus Hardy (1854). Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae: Or A Calendar of the Principal Ecclesiastical Dignitaries in England and Wales... University Press. p. 305.
[12]
The Monthly Review Or Literary Journal Enlarged. Porter. 1780. p. 95.
[13]
John Henry James (1898). A History and Survey of the Cathedral Church of SS. Peter, Paul, Dubritius, Teilo, and Oudoceus, Llandaff. Western Mail. p. 16.
[14]
The Apostolical Succession in the Church of England. James Parkes and Company. 1866. p. 15.
[15]
Guides and Handbooks. Royal Historical Society (Great Britain). 1939. p. 163.
[16]
Ehrman, John (1983). The Younger Pitt. Stanford University Press. p. 92. ISBN 9780804711845.
[17]
"Chester, Friday, Nov. 13". Chester Chronicle. 13 November 1789. p. 3.
[18]
The Foundry Trade Journal. Institute of Cast Metals Engineers. 1972.
[19]
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. 166â. ISBN 978-0-7083-2591-9.
[20]
The Gentleman's Magazine. E. Cave. 1789. p. 339.
[21]
Jones, Mary (2004). "Edward Williams/Iolo Morganwg/Iolo Morgannwg". Jones' Celtic Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 21 May 2016. Retrieved 8 August 2024..
[22]
Roberts, Alun (2002). Welsh National Heroes. Y Lolfa. ISBN 9780862436100.
[23]
Griffith John Williams. "WALTERS, JOHN (1760-1789), cleric, poet, and scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
[24]
Thomas, Peter, D.G., Biography in History of Parliament Online, extracted from The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1754â1790, ed. L. Namier, J. Brooke., 1964
[25]
Edward Ivor Williams (1959). "Edwards, William (1719-1789), Independent minister, and architect". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
[26]
William Llewelyn Davies (1959). "Baker, Elizabeth (1720-1789), diarist". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 1 November 2021.

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