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1890 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
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Decades:
  
1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1890 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

  • 6 February - In an accident at Llanerch Colliery, Pontypool, 176 miners are killed.
  • 10 March - In an accident at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 86 miners are killed.
  • 7 April - An Easter Monday conference at Llangefni leads to agreement with employers on a shorter working day for male agricultural labourers.
  • 13 April - At a by-election in Caernarfon, David Lloyd George wins the seat for the Liberals from the Conservatives, defeating H. J. E. Nanney, the local squire; Lloyd George remains the constituency MP until his death in 1945.
  • 22 May - Y Cymro is launched by Isaac Foulkes (Llyfrbryf) in Liverpool as a liberal weekly Welsh language "national newspaper for Welshmen at home and abroad"; it is published until 1909.
  • Summer - Queen Elisabeth of Romania visits Llandudno, staying for five weeks and later remembering it as "a beautiful haven of peace"; the phrase is later translated into Welsh and used as the town's motto.
  • 21 December - Beginning of a 3-week period of severe winter weather causing deaths and disruption to daily life in many parts of Wales.
  • Opening of the Rock Mill watermill for woollen milling at Capel Dewi, Llandysul.

    • Awards

    National Eisteddfod of Wales - held at Bangor

  • Chair - Thomas Tudno Jones
  • Crown - John John Roberts

    • New books

  • Anne Beale - Old Gwen
  • Rhoda Broughton - Alas!
  • Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan (in the magazine The Whirlwind)

    • Sport

  • Cricket - The England ladies' team plays an exhibition match at Newport.
  • Football - The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the third time.
  • Hockey - The Welsh Hockey Association is founded.
  • Rugby union - Wales win their very first international against England. The only try was scored by Cardiff's 'Buller' Stadden.

    • Births

  • 2 January - Madoline Thomas, actress (died 1989)
  • 21 January - Jack Anthony, jockey (died 1954)
  • 14 February - Nina Hamnett, artist and Bohemian (died 1956)
  • 1 March - Jack Beames, rugby player (died 1970)
  • 16 February - Thomas Ifor Rees, diplomat (died 1977)
  • 20 April - Ernest Roberts, politician (died 1969)
  • 5 May - George Littlewood Hirst, Wales international rugby player (died 1967)
  • 14 June - Dai Hiddlestone, Wales international rugby player (died 1973)
  • 21 June - W. J. A. Davies, rugby player (died 1967)
  • 28 July - Horace Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1916)
  • 30 August - Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, novelist (died 1977)
  • 13 September - Johnny Basham, boxer (died 1947)
  • 19 September - Jim Griffiths, politician, first Secretary of State for Wales (died 1975)
  • 22 November - (in Lancashire) Harry Pollitt, Communist trade union leader and parliamentary candidate for Rhondda East (died 1960)
  • 16 December - P. J. Grigg, politician (died 1964)

    • Deaths

  • 17 January - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, landowner, 86
  • 20 January - Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician and patron of Patagonian Welsh colony, 68
  • 19 March - Edmund Swetenham, MP for Caernarfon, 67
  • 21 March - Benjamin Thomas Williams, politician, 57
  • 29 June - Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, 589
  • 12 July - David Pugh, politician, 84
  • 20 July - David Davies "Llandinam", industrialist, 71
  • 6 August - Thomas Babington Jones, cricketer, 39

    • References

    1890 in Wales Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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