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

Incumbents Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey - Henry Paget Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 5th Duke of Beaufort Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire - Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Wilmot Vaughan, 1st Earl of Lisburne Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Vaughan Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire - Richard Myddelton Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire - Sir Roger Mostyn, 5th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – John Stuart, Lord Mountstuart Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet (until 24 July); Watkin Williams (from 27 August) Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – George Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Richard Philipps, 1st Baron Milford Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Edward Harley, 4th Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer

Bishop of Bangor – John Warren Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Watson Bishop of St Asaph – Samuel Hallifax (from 4 April) Bishop of St Davids – Samuel Horsley

Events July–August - Bread riots break out in North Wales. 23 October - Christmas Evans marries Catherine Jones at Bryncroes chapel in Llŷn, shortly after his own ordination. 8 November - Port Penrhyn opens. unknown date - Blaenavon Ironworks begins production.

Arts and literature 12 May - Thomas Jones organises an eisteddfod at the New Inn (modern-day Owain Glyndwr Hotel) in Corwen, where for the first time the public are admitted.

New books Jenkin Lewis - Memoirs of Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester Iolo Morganwg - Barddoniaeth Dafydd ab Gwilym, incorporating probable forgeries by Morganwg. 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)

Deaths 28 June - John Walters, priest and poet, 29 24 July - Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn, 4th Baronet, politician, 39Thomas, 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 7 August - William Edwards, minister and bridge-builder, 70 26 November - Elizabeth Baker, diarist, 70?

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