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1884 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1884 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales — Albert Edward
  • Princess of Wales — Alexandra
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales — Clwydfardd

    • Events

  • 18 January — Dr William Price attempts to cremate his dead baby son, Iesu Grist, at Llantrisant. Later tried at Cardiff Assizes and acquitted on the grounds that cremation is not contrary to law, he is thus able to carry out the ceremony (the first in the U.K. in modern times) on 14 March.
  • 27 January — 14 miners are killed in an accident at the Naval Colliery, Penygraig.
  • 18 October — Opening of the University College of North Wales, Bangor in the former Penrhyn Arms Hotel.
  • 8 November — 15 miners are killed in an accident at the Pochin Colliery, Tredegar.
  • Isolation hospital for cholera patients opens on Flat Holm.
  • A Chair of Celtic Studies is founded at the University College of South Wales, Cardiff.
  • Closure of Talargoch lead mine, near Dyserth.
  • Argentine Congress authorises the construction of the Central Chubut Railway by Lewis Jones y Cia.

    • Awards

    National Eisteddfod of Wales — held at Liverpool

  • Chair — Evan Rees ("Dyfed")
  • Crown — Edward Foulkes

    • New books

  • Amy Dillwyn - Jill
  • Robert Owen - Institutes of Canon Law

    • Music

  • Joseph Parry — Nebuchadnezzar (cantata)

    • Sport

  • Football — Oswestry win the Welsh Cup for the first time.
  • Rugby union — The first international match is played at Cardiff Arms Park (between Wales and Ireland).

    • Births

  • 9 January — William Llewellyn Morgan, Wales international rugby union player (died 1960)
  • 19 February — Clement Davies, politician (died 1962)
  • 6 April — J. G. Parry-Thomas, engineer and racing driver (died 1927)
  • 7 April — C. H. Dodd, theologian (died 1973)
  • 12 April — Tenby Davies, half-mile world champion runner (died 1932)
  • 20 June — John Dyke, Wales international rugby union player (died 1960)
  • 31 July — Lionel Rees, aviator, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1955)
  • 15 August — Ivor Morgan, Wales international rugby union player (died 1943)
  • 21 August — John Chandless, cricketer (died 1968)
  • 24 November — Jack Jones, novelist (died 1970)
  • 3 December — Bailey Davies, Wales international rugby union player (died 1968)
  • 14 December — Margaret Davies, patron of the arts (died 1963)
  • date unknown
  • Arthur Jenkins, politician (died 1946)
  • Thomas Jones, footballer (died 1958)

    • Deaths

  • 12 February — Henry Morgan-Clifford, politician, 77
  • 17 March — Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn, 89
  • 24 May — Henry Thomas Edwards, preacher, 46 (suicide)
  • 17 July — Charles James Watkin Williams, judge, doctor and politician, 55
  • 6 November — George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry, industrialist and owner of Plas Machynlleth, 63

    • References

    1884 in Wales Wikipedia
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