1789 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1789 to Wales and its people.Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George
- 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.
Arts and literature
- 12 May - Thomas Jones organises an eisteddfod at the New Inn in Corwen, where for the first time the public are admitted.
New books
- Jenkin Lewis - Memoirs of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester
- Richard Price - Love for our Country
Births
- 22 April - Richard Roberts, engineer
- 24 May - Betsi Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse
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?
