1789 in Wales
Encyclopedia
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1789 to Wales
and its people
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Wales
Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
and its people
Welsh people
The Welsh people are an ethnic group and nation associated with Wales and the Welsh language.John Davies argues that the origin of the "Welsh nation" can be traced to the late 4th and early 5th centuries, following the Roman departure from Britain, although Brythonic Celtic languages seem to have...
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Incumbents
- Prince of WalesPrince of WalesPrince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
- George, Prince RegentGeorge IV of the United KingdomGeorge IV was the King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and also of Hanover from the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820 until his own death ten years later... - Princess of WalesPrincess of WalesPrincess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
- vacant
Events
- October 23 - Christmas EvansChristmas EvansChristmas Evans was a Welsh Nonconformist minister, regarded as one of the greatest preachers in the history of Wales....
marries Catherine Jones at Bryncroes chapel in Llŷn, shortly after his own ordination. - Thomas CharlesThomas CharlesThomas Charles was a Welsh Nonconformist clergyman of considerable importance in the history of modern Wales.-Early life:...
opens his first Sunday school. - Ironworking begins at Blaenau.
Births
- April 22 - Richard RobertsRichard Roberts (engineer)Richard Roberts was a British engineer whose development of high-precision machine tools contributed to the birth of production engineering and mass production.-Early life:...
, engineer (died 1864) - May 24 - Beti Cadwaladr, Crimea nurse (died 1860)
Deaths
- July 24 - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th BaronetSir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th BaronetSir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet was a Welsh politician and patron of the arts.Sir Watkin was the eldest son of the second marriage of his father, Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 3rd Baronet, to Frances Shackerley of Cheshire...
, politician, 39 - August 7 - William EdwardsWilliam Edwards (architect)William Edwards was a Welsh Methodist minister who also practised as a stonemason, architect and bridge engineer....
, minister and bridge-builder, 70 - November 26 - Elizabeth BakerElizabeth BakerElizabeth Baker was an English playwright. She earned her living primarily as a typist, and was a spinster until the age of 39 when she married James Allaway, a widower, in June 1915. By then, she had already written several plays...
, diarist, 70?