1789 in Wales

Centuries:	16th; 17th; 18th; 19th; 20th;
Decades:	1760s; 1770s; 1780s; 1790s; 1800s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1789 in Great Britain Ireland Scotland

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

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July–August - Bread riots break out in North Wales.^[1]
23 October - Christmas Evans marries Catherine Jones at Bryncroes chapel in Llŷn, shortly after his own ordination.
8 November - Port Penrhyn opens.^[2]
unknown date - Blaenavon Ironworks begins production.^[3]

12 May - Thomas Jones organises an eisteddfod at the New Inn (modern-day Owain Glyndwr Hotel) in Corwen,^[4] where for the first time the public are admitted.

^ Ehrman, John (1983). The Younger Pitt. Stanford University Press. p. 92.
^ "Chester, Friday, Nov. 13". Chester Chronicle. 13 November 1789. p. 3.
^ The Foundry Trade Journal. Institute of Cast Metals Engineers. 1972.
^ 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.
^ The Gentleman's Magazine. E. Cave. 1789. p. 339.
^ Roberts, Alun (2002). Welsh National Heroes. ISBN 9780862436100.
^ Griffith John Williams. "WALTERS, JOHN (1760-1789), cleric, poet, and scholar". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 23 October 2018.
^ 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