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1913 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
18th 19th 20th 21st

Decades:
  
1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1913 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - Edward
  • Princess of Wales - vacant
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Dyfed

    • Events

  • 19 February - Suffragette arson attack on a house being built for David Lloyd George near Walton Heath Golf Club in Surrey. Emmeline Pankhurst, in a speech in Cardiff this evening, claims to have incited this and other incidents.
  • 5 June - The last ship built at Porthmadog, Y Gestiana, is launched; on 4 October she is wrecked on her maiden voyage, on the coast of Nova Scotia.
  • 14 June - Three years after leaving Cardiff on her fateful voyage to the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ship Terra Nova returns to the port, commanded by Scott's former comrade Teddy Evans.
  • 14 October - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster: 439 men are killed in a mining accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd - the worst accident in British mining history. 1913 is the peak year for coal production in Wales.
  • 27 October - A tornado hits South Wales, killing four people.
  • Diplomat William Henry Hoare Vincent is knighted.
  • Carmarthen Farm Institute is founded - the first of its kind.
  • Monmouthshire Training College is founded at Caerleon, with Edward Anwyl as its first principal.
  • School of Mines founded at Treforest, a predecessor of the University of South Wales.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Abergavenny
  • Chair - Thomas Jacob Thomas
  • Crown - William Evans (Wil Ifan)

    • New books

  • W. H. Davies - Foliage
  • Frances Hoggan - American Negro Women During Their First Fifty Years of Freedom
  • Thomas Gwynn Jones - Cofiant Thomas Gee
  • Sir John Morris-Jones - Welsh Grammar: Historical and Comparative
  • Moelona - Teulu Bach Nantoer
  • Edward Thomas - The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans

    • Film

  • The American adaptation of Ivanhoe is filmed at Chepstow Castle.

    • Sport

  • Boxing
  • 2 June - Bill Beynon wins the British and Empire bantamweight championship.
  • Rugby Union
  • 18 January - Wales are defeated 12–0 by England in a game played at the National Stadium, Cardiff

    • Births

  • 13 March – Tessie O'Shea, entertainer and actress (d. 1995)
  • 29 March - R. S. Thomas, poet (d. 2000)
  • 31 March - Dai Rees, golfer (d. 1983)
  • 8 May - Tom Rees, Wales international rugby player (d. 1991)
  • 27 May - Mervyn Stockwood, Anglican bishop (d. 1995)
  • 5 June - Moelwyn Merchant, poet and novelist (d. 1997)
  • 6 July - Gwyn Thomas, author (d. 1981)
  • 23 July - Michael Foot, politician, MP for Ebbw Vale 1960-1992 (d. 2010)
  • 18 December - Eddie Morgan, Wales international rugby player (d. 1978)

    • Deaths

  • 4 February - Tom Williams, Wales international rugby player and sports administrator, c.52
  • 8 February - James Webb, Wales rugby international, 50
  • 16 February (in Australia) - Lewis Thomas, colliery proprietor and politician
  • 11 March - Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, British Army officer, politician and philanthropist, 81
  • 19 March - John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia), harpist, 87
  • 30 March - Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, politician, 60
  • 3 April (in London) - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff, politician, 87
  • 15 April - William Jones, Victoria Cross recipient, c.73
  • 4 June (in London) - Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, politician, 78
  • 24 July - Hugh Brython Hughes, children's author, 65
  • 17 August - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player, 49
  • c. 8 October - John Jones (Coch Bach y Bala), notorious criminal, c.59
  • 6 November - Sir William Henry Preece, electrical engineer, 79
  • 7 November (in Broadstone, Dorset) - Alfred Russel Wallace, scientist, 90
  • 19 December (in South Africa) - Bert Gould, Wales international rugby player, 43

    • References

    1913 in Wales Wikipedia
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