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1907 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 1907 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 - Dyfed

    • Events

  • 17 February - The cargo ship SS Orianda sinks off Barry after colliding with the SS Heliopolis, with the loss of 14 crew.
  • 5 March - Six miners are killed in a shaft accident at Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr.
  • 19 March - The National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth) and National Museum of Wales (Cardiff) receive their charters.
  • 9 July - Edward VII visits Bangor to lay the foundation stone of the new University College of North Wales buildings. Principal Henry Reichel is knighted.
  • 13 July - Opening of the Queen Alexandra Dock in Cardiff, attended by the King and Queen.
  • 25 July - Francis Edwards, MP for Radnorshire, is created a baronet.
  • 1 November - First performance of John Hughes' hymn tune "Cwm Rhondda" in its final version, at Capel Rhondda Welsh Baptist Chapel, Hopkinstown, Pontypridd with the composer at the (new) organ.
  • 10 November - Five miners are killed in an accident at Seven Sisters Colliery.
  • 11 December - Seven miners are killed in an accident at Dinas Main Colliery, Gilfach Goch.
  • December - Edgeworth David joins Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole.
  • Owen Morgan Edwards becomes Chief Inspector of Schools for Wales.
  • The Board of Education establishes a special Welsh department.
  • C. H. Watkins designs and builds the first aircraft in Wales at Cardiff, and names it Robin Goch.
  • Opening of Dolgarrog hydroelectric power station.
  • The silver and lead mine at Llywernog reopens in order to prospect for zinc.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Swansea
  • Chair - Thomas Davies
  • Crown - John Dyfnallt Owen

    • English language

  • Eliot Crawshay-Williams - Across Persia
  • W. H. Davies - New Poems
  • Arthur Machen - The Hill of Dreams

    • Welsh language

  • Emyr Davies - Llwyn Hudol
  • John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) - Gwerin-Eiriau Sir Gaernarfon
  • John Morris-Jones - Caniadau
  • Joshua Thomas - Hanes y Bedyddwyr
  • T. Marchant Williams - Odlau Serch a Bywyd

    • Music

  • T. Hopkin Evans - Crowns of Golden Light and The Voyage
  • John Hughes - "Cwm Rhondda" (hymn tune, final version)
  • David Vaughan Thomas - Llyn y Fan

    • Architecture

  • St. David's Hotel, a hotel for golfers located at Harlech, in Gwynedd, is designed to plans by the Glasgow School architect George Walton (Architect) for a syndicate of entrepreneurs of which he was a member. (The proposals were subsequently revised in 1908, and the hotel was built in 1910. The hotel closed in 2008, and planning permission for demolition was approved in 2009).

    • Sport

  • Bowls - The Welsh Open Bowls Championship is launched.
  • Boxing
  • 1 June - Jim Driscoll wins the British featherweight title.
  • 8 August - Joe White wins the British welterweight title (disputed).
  • Rugby league
  • Ebbw Vale RLFC and Merthyr Tydfil RLFC are formed, the very first Welsh rugby league teams.
  • Rugby union
  • Wales finish second in the 1907 Home Nations Championship
  • 1 January - Cardiff beat the touring South Africa national team, 17 - 0.

    • Births

  • 3 January - Ray Milland, actor
  • 11 January - Reg Thomas, athlete
  • 6 April - Jacques de Guélis, Special Operations Executive agent (d. 1945)
  • 30 April - Harry Bowcott, international rugby player and president of the Welsh Rugby Union (d. 2004)
  • 24 May – Gwyn Jones, writer (d. 1999)
  • 10 June - Ernie Curtis, footballer (d. 1992)
  • 2 July - Dick Duckfield, cricketer (d. 1959)
  • 25 August - Albert Fear, Wales international rugby player
  • 27 November - Glyn Prosser, Wales international rugby player
  • 10 December - Harry Payne, Wales international rugby player (d. 2000)
  • 21 December - Will Roberts, painter
  • 23 December - Fred Warren, international footballer (d. 1986)
  • date unknown - Trevor Thomas, art historian and author

    • Deaths

  • 7 January - David Rowlands (Dewi Môn), minister, academic and writer
  • 10 March - George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, industrialist and politician
  • 24 March - John Pugh, minister (Forward Movement)
  • 5 July - John Romilly Allen, archaeologist
  • 14 August - David Treharne Evans, Lord Mayor of London
  • October - Hugh Davies (Pencerdd Maelor), composer
  • 29 October - Megan Watts Hughes, singer
  • 10 November - Sir Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet
  • 11 November - Ralph Sweet-Escott, English born, Wales rugby international, 38

    • References

    1907 in Wales Wikipedia
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