1913 in Wales

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Centuries: 18th19th20th21st
Decades: 1890s1900s1910s1920s1930s

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

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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