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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1912 to Wales and its people.
Prince of Wales - Edward
Princess of Wales - vacant
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Dyfed
1 March - National miners' strike, led in Wales by Vernon Hartshorn and Noah Ablett among others.
15 April - Wireless operator Artie Moore of Gelligroes near Blackwood, hears a distress signal from RMS Titanic.
22 April - Denys Corbett Wilson leaves Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, to make the first manned flight fully across the Irish Sea in a time of 1 hour 40 minutes.
26 April - Vivian Hewitt of Bodfari in Denbighshire makes a manned flight across the Irish Sea, from Holyhead to Dublin.
28 May - A major demonstration in favour of disestablishment takes place in Swansea.
1 August - Chemist Humphrey Owen Jones marries a colleague, Muriel Gwendolen Edwards. A fortnight later the couple, both keen climbers, are killed in a fall while on their honeymoon in the Alps.
17 September - Welsh immigrant workers play a major part in organizing the coal miners' strike in Vancouver Island, Canada.
The Welsh Health Service Insurance Commission is established.
Sir David Brynmor Jones becomes a member of the Privy Council.
Alfred Thomas is created Baron Pontypridd.
The foundation stone of the National Museum Cardiff is laid. (It does not open to the public until 1927.)
Dan yr Ogof caves are discovered by brothers Jeff and Tommy Morgan.
George V and Queen Mary visit Merthyr Tydfil amid much controversy.
Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith becomes chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary Liberal Party.
Clough Williams-Ellis receives his first major architectural commission, for the remodelling of Llangoed Hall.
A drill hall is built in the Pen-dre area of Tywyn for the Territorial Army (the 7th Battalion the Royal Welsh Fusiliers). The hall, subsequently known as Neuadd Pendre, was renovated 100 years after its construction, with grants from various sources, and houses a 3-manual 9-rank Wurlitzer Organ originally installed in a cinema in Woolwich.
Arts and literature
The Welsh colony in Chubut launches its own newspaper.
National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Wrexham
Chair and Crown - T. H. Parry-Williams (the first time both major prizes were won by the same person)
Stanley Bligh - The Art of Conversation
Rhoda Broughton - Between Two Stools
Alfred George Edwards - Landmarks in the History of the Welsh Church
Miners' Unofficial Reform Committee - The Miners' Next Step
T. M. Rees - Welsh Painters
Bertha Thomas - Stranger Within The Gates (collection of short stories)
Edward Tegla Davies - Hunangofiant Tomi
Thomas Williams (Brynfab) - Pan Oedd Rhondda'n Bur
Thomas Carrington - Concwest Calfari
Sir Henry Walford Davies - Song of St Francis (cantata)
David Vaughan Thomas - A Song for St. Cecilia's Day
The Belle of Bettws-y-Coed
The Smuggler's Daughter of Anglesea
The Witch of the Welsh Mountains
Boxing:
January - Freddie Welsh dislocates his neck in a bout of wrestling, rendering him unable to compete.
3 June - Jim Driscoll wins the European featherweight title.
16 December - Freddie Welsh wins the Commonwealth lightweight title.
Football
Cardiff City F.C. win the Welsh Cup - the first time a club from south Wales has done so.
Swansea Town play their first match at the Vetch Field.
Rugby league - Ebbw Vale RLFC fold after five seasons, ending the first attempt to bring rugby league to Wales.
Rugby union
14 December - The South African touring team defeats Wales 3-0 at Cardiff Arms Park.
26 December - Swansea RFC defeat the South African touring team 3-0 at St Helen's, Swansea.
27 March - James Callaghan (died 2005)
29 April - Elvet Jones, Wales and British Lions rugby international (died 1989)
30 May - Hugh Griffith, actor (died 1980)
8 June - Billy Bassett, Welsh footballer (died 1977)
16 June - Enoch Powell, Welsh-speaking politician (died 1998)
29 June - Valerie Davies, swimmer (died 2001)
1 September - Gwynfor Evans, politician (died 2005)
20 October - William R. P. George, solicitor and poet (died 2006)
15 November - Arthur Granville, footballer (died 1987)
20 November
Arthur Rees - Wales rugby international and police Chief Constable (died 1998)
Wilf Wooller - Wales rugby international and Glamorgan cricket captain. (died 1997)
12 December - Daniel Jones, composer (died 1993)
13 December - Garfield Hopkin Hughes, academic (died 1969)
20 December - Sir Morien Morgan, aeronautics engineer (died 1978)
date unknown - Brenda Chamberlain, artist and poet (died 1971)
29 January - Dai Evans, Wales international rugby player
17 February - Edgar Evans, explorer, 35
6 April - Eleazar Roberts, writer and musician, 87
18 April - Walter Clopton Wingfield, lawn tennis inventor, 78
25 July – Griffith John, missionary, 80
12 August - Humphrey Owen Jones, chemist, 34 (climbing accident)
29 August (in Haslemere) - James Cholmeley Russell, railway entrepreneur, 71
24 September – John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock, politician, 75
18 November - Edward Thomas (Cochfarf), local politician, 59
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