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1914 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 1914 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

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

    • Events

  • 14 January - The first trolleybuses in Wales come into operation, in Aberdare.
  • 23 February - Light cruiser HMS Cordelia is launched at Pembroke Dock.
  • 2 May - South Wales Transport begins operating motorbuses in the Swansea area.
  • 4 August - World War I: Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on the German Empire.
  • 6 August - Pembroke Dock-built HMS Amphion (1911) becomes the first British naval casualty of the war when she strikes mines off the east coast.
  • 18 September - Welsh Church Act, disestablishing the Church in Wales, receives Royal Assent, but simultaneously with the Suspensory Act which delays its coming into effect.
  • 21 September - William Charles Fuller wins the Victoria Cross for carrying a wounded officer to safety under fire.
  • 14 November - Light cruiser HMS Carysfort is launched at Pembroke Dock.
  • A Welsh Home Rule Bill, introduced by Edward T. John, MP for East Denbighshire, fails.
  • A women's teacher training college opens at Barry; a men's equivalent opens at Caerleon.
  • The hundredth intermediate school in Wales is established under the Welsh Intermediate and Technical Education Act 1889.
  • William James Thomas, industrialist and philanthropist, is knighted.

    • Arts and literature

  • The monthly periodical Welsh Outlook is founded by Thomas Jones (T. J.).

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales - not held

    • New books

  • Rhoda Broughton - Concerning a Vow
  • Moelwyn - Caniadau Moelwyn, vol. 4
  • Bertrand Russell - Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
  • T. E. Ellis - Pont Orewyn

    • Drama

  • T. Gwynn Jones - Caradog yn Rhufain

    • Music

  • David John de Lloyd - Gwlad fy Nhadau (cantata)

    • Film

  • Welsh-descended Harold Lloyd begins his film career.
  • Wild Wales [1]

    • Sport

  • Boxing
  • 26 January: Percy Jones wins the British, European and World (disputed) featherweight titles.
  • 30 March: Jimmy Wilde wins the European flyweight title.
  • 7 July: Freddie Welsh wins the World lightweight title
  • 14 December: Johnny Basham wins the British welterweight title.
  • Rugby union
  • 14 March: After Percy Jones is target by Irish players during the 1914 Five Nations Championship, Harry Uzzell leads his men in retaliation in a game notorious for its on the field violence. Wales won the match, and the Welsh pack were dubbed the 'Terrible Eight' by the press.

    • Births

  • 28 January - Trefor Morgan, financier (d. 1970)
  • 11 February - Mervyn Levy, art critic (d. 1996)
  • 12 March - Tommy Farr, boxer (d. 1986)
  • 12 March - Cliff Jones, Wales international rugby captain (d. 1990)
  • 21 March - Sir Goronwy Daniel, academic and civil servant (d. 2003)
  • 23 April - Glyn Daniel, archaeologist and television presenter (d. 1986)
  • 24 May
  • Sir Granville Beynon, physicist, (d. 1996)
  • Harry Parr Davies, composer and songwriter (d. 1955)
  • 9 September - Alexander Cordell, novelist (d. 1997)
  • 12 September - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (d. 1999)
  • 22 October - David Tecwyn Lloyd, author (d. 1992)
  • 27 October - Dylan Thomas, poet (d. 1953)
  • 21 November - Charles Fisher, poet (d. 2006)
  • 2 December - Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player
  • 7 December - Bryan Hopkin, economist (d. 2009)

    • Deaths

  • 22 February - Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 78
  • 4 May - Rowland Griffiths, rugby player, 28
  • 18 June - Abel Davies, rugby union player
  • 21 June - Morgan Bransby Williams, engineer
  • 23 July - Harry Evans, conductor and composer, 41
  • 8 August - Sir Edward Anwyl, academic, 48
  • 22 August (in Swanley) - James Dickson Innes, artist, 27 (tuberculosis)
  • 27 August - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, 77
  • 17 September - Shadrach Pryce, clergyman and educationalist
  • 2 October - Jack Hughes, footballer, 59
  • 27 October - Sir T. Marchant Williams, lawyer and author

    • References

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