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1902 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
18th 19th 20th 21st

Decades:
  
1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - George (later George V)
  • Princess of Wales - Mary
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Hwfa Môn

    • Events

  • 4 March - Five miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfaen Colliery, Blaenavon.
  • 1 May - Cardiff Corporation Tramways begins operating its electric system.
  • 3 June - Six miners are killed in an accident at Gerwen Colliery, Llanelli.
  • 26 June - In the 1902 Coronation Honours, Isambard Owen and Alfred Thomas receive knighthoods.
  • 15 July - Francis Grenfell is created 1st Baron Grenfell of Kilvey in the County of Glamorgan.
  • 31 July - Opening of first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles.
  • August - Opening of Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic (it opens to passengers on 22 December).
  • 11 November - Five miners are killed in an accident at Deep Navigation Colliery, Mountain Ash.
  • Alfred Mond founds his nickel works at Clydach in the Swansea valley.
  • 230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada.
  • Opening of Caernarfon electric power station.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Bangor
  • Chair - T. Gwynn Jones
  • Crown - Silyn Roberts

    • English language

  • Rhoda Broughton - Lavinia
  • Arthur Machen - Hieroglyphics
  • Allen Raine - A Welsh Witch

    • Welsh language

  • Hugh Brython Hughes - Tlysau Ynys Prydain
  • Thomas Rowland Roberts - Y Monwyson

    • Music

  • Sir Henry Walford Davies - Three Jovial Huntsmen

    • Sport

  • Gymnastics - The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed.
  • Rugby union - Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.

    • Births

  • 4 February - Tal Harris, Wales international rugby player (died 1963)
  • 25 February - Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician (died 1993)
  • 4 March - David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973)
  • 19 March - Dilys Cadwaladr, poet (died 1979)
  • 22 April - Megan Lloyd George, politician (died 1966)
  • 18 June - Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963)
  • 17 July - Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU (died 1984)
  • 2 September - Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist (died 1979)
  • 21 September - E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist of Welsh descent (died 1972)
  • 27 October (in Oxford) - Harold Arthur Harris, academic (died 1974)
  • 26 November (in Bristol) - Cyril Bence, academic and politician (died 1992)
  • date unknown - Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981)

    • Deaths

  • 1 January - William McConnel, industrialist, 93
  • 11 January - James James, harpist and composer, 68
  • 6 March - William Rathbone, politician, 82
  • 11 March - Alcwyn Evans, historian, 73
  • 13 July - Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist (Wattstown)
  • 14 July - Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player, 37
  • 5 October - Henry Lascelles Carr, journalist
  • 17 November - Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55
  • date unknown - Jeremiah Jones, poet

    • References

    1902 in Wales Wikipedia
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