1789 in Wales

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

1789
in
Wales

Centuries:
  • 16th
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
Decades:
  • 1760s
  • 1770s
  • 1780s
  • 1790s
  • 1800s
See also:
1789 in
Great Britain
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

Events

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

Deaths

gollark: Not meaningfully.
gollark: Sure.
gollark: If tons of people go onto unemployment then employers would have to compete more.
gollark: I mean, if the jobs are all bad somehow, yes?
gollark: Personally I'd support some form of UBI, assuming this would not horribly inflation.

References

  1. The Foundry Trade Journal. Institute of Cast Metals Engineers. 1972.
  2. 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.
  3. The Gentleman's Magazine. E. Cave. 1789. p. 339.
  4. Roberts, Alun (2002). Welsh National Heroes. ISBN 9780862436100.
  5. Griffith John Williams. "WALTERS, JOHN (1760-1789), cleric, poet, and scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
  6. 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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