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1889 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1889 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

  • January - First Glamorgan County Council elections are held.
  • 8 February - Nine people drown in a ferry accident at Pembroke Dock.
  • 13 March - 20 miners are killed in an accident at the Brynmally Colliery, Wrexham.
  • June - A lion escapes from a travelling menagerie at Llandrindod Wells.
  • 18 July - Opening of the first dock basin at Barry.
  • 3 August - Opening of Hawarden Bridge.
  • 12 August - The passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act marks the beginning of secondary education in Wales.
  • 15 August - Three men are killed in a mining accident at Wenvoe Quarry, Glamorgan.
  • 26 August - Act of incorporation of the Barry Railway Company#Vale of Glamorgan Railway.
  • Approximate date - The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain is co-founded in Salford as the United Kingdom Van Dwellers Protection Association by Jacob Studt and other active Welsh cinema pioneers.

    • Awards

    National Eisteddfod of Wales - held at Brecon

  • Chair - Evan Rees
  • Crown - Howell Elvet Lewis

    • New books

  • Owen Morgan Edwards - O'r Bala i Geneva

    • Sport

  • Cricket - Glamorgan County Cricket Club plays its first match, against Warwickshire at Cardiff Arms Park.
  • Rugby union - Bedwas RFC, Blackwood RFC and Llantwit Major RFC are formed.

    • Births

  • 12 January - John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster and philanthropist (died 1922)
  • 22 January - John Emlyn-Jones, politician (died 1952)
  • 28 January - Phil Waller, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1917)
  • 31 January - Jack Evans, footballer (died 1971)
  • 1 February - John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)
  • 10 February - Howard Spring, novelist (died 1965)
  • 28 February - George Jeffreys, Pentecostalist (died 1962)
  • 5 May - Stanley Winmill, Wales international rugby union player (died 1940)
  • 24 June - Harry Symonds, cricketer (died 1945)
  • 17 July - Aled Owen Roberts, politician (died 1949)
  • 5 August - William Davies Thomas, academic (died 1954)
  • 21 August - Henry Lewis, Professor at Swansea University (died 1968)
  • 23 October - William Havard, Bishop of St Davids and international rugby player (died 1956)
  • 11 December - Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)

    • Deaths

  • 21 January - Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, 81
  • 27 May - George Owen Rees, Welsh-Italian doctor, 75
  • 8 June - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet, 44
  • 17 June (in St Petersburg) - John Hughes, industrialist, 73
  • 26 June - Walter Rice Howell Powell, landowner and politician, 69
  • 28 September - Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player, 34
  • 29 October - Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player, 36
  • 14 November - James Stephens, stonemason, Chartist, and later Australian trade unionist, 68
  • probable - Richard Williams Morgan, clergyman and poet

    • References

    1889 in Wales Wikipedia
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