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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1915 to Wales and its people.
Prince of Wales - Edward
Princess of Wales - vacant
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Dyfed
January - A memorial to Captain Robert Falcon Scott, in the form of a model lighthouse, is erected on an island in Roath Park Lake, commemorating the support given to Scott's expedition by the people of Cardiff.
26 February - The Welsh Guards regiment is created.
4 April - Three German prisoners-of-war escape from an internment camp at Llansannan in Denbighshire, but are quickly recaptured.
25 April - At Gallipoli, Able Seaman William Charles Williams of Chepstow helps secure lighters on HMS River Clyde under continuous fire. He is posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross - the first such award made to a member of the Royal Navy in World War I.
7 May - When RMS Lusitania is sunk by a German torpedo, notable survivors include David Alfred Thomas, Viscount Rhondda and tenor Gwynn Parry Jones.
26 July - The Glamorganshire Canal closes between Abercynon and Pontypridd.
11 September - The first branch of the Women's Institute in Britain opens at Llanfair PG, Anglesey.
1 October - For his conduct at the Battle of Hooge, Lt. Rupert Price Hallowes of Port Talbot is posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
November - The 38th (Welsh) Division is posted to France.
15 November - Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, becomes MP for Cardiff, following the death in action of the previous incumbent, Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart.
25 November - In the Merthyr Tydfil by-election, caused by the death of Keir Hardie, Charles Stanton becomes Independent Labour Party MP for Merthyr.
4 December - First submarine to be launched at Pembroke Dock, HMS J3.
Welshmen continue to enlist for military service in World War I, including architect Percy Thomas, who joins the Artists' Rifles.
Sir William Rice Edwards becomes surgeon-general of Bengal.
Arts and literature
Gomer Berry and William Ewart Berry become owners of The Sunday Times.
Clough Williams-Ellis marries Amabel Strachey.
National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Bangor)
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - T. H. Parry-Williams
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - T. H. Parry-Williams
Caradoc Evans – My People: Stories of the Peasantry of West Wales
John Gwenogvryn Evans (ed.) - Poems from the Book of Taliesin, amended and translated
William Evans (Wil Ifan) - Dros y Nyth
Arthur Machen – The Great Return
Eluned Morgan - Plant yr Haul
John Cowper Powys - Wood and Stone
David Roberts - Y Tant Aur (2nd edition)
Ivor Novello - "Keep the Home Fires Burning" (lyrics by Lena Ford)
William Penfro Rowlands - "Blaenwern" (hymn tune)
The Birth of a Nation directed by Welsh-descended D. W. Griffith.
Boxing - Llew Edwards wins the British and Commonwealth featherweight titles.
16 January - David Davies, 2nd Baron Davies of Llandinam (died 1944)
11 February - Mervyn Levy, artist (died 1996)
20 February - Mary Jones, actor (died 1990)
25 March - Dorothy Squires, singer (died 1998)
2 April - Patrick Gibbs, RAF Wing Commander, author and film critic (died 2008)
9 April - Bill Clement, Welsh international rugby player and Secretary of the WRU (died 2007)
13 May - Hrothgar John Habakkuk, economic historian (died 2002)
4 June - David Bell, writer and curator (died 1959)
1 July - Alun Lewis, poet (died on active service 1944)
3 July - Ifor Owen, illustrator (died 2007)
30 August - Lillian May Davies, later Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, fashion model and Swedish princess (died 2013)
4 September - Roland Mathias, poet and critic
10 September - Geraint Bowen, poet and Archdruid
22 September - Thomas Williams, politician (died 1986)
23 September - John Samuel Rowlands, GC (died 2006)
11 October - T. Llew Jones, writer
10 November - Leslie Manfield, Wales international rugby union player (died 2006)
date unknown
Norah Isaac, educationalist (died 2003)
Keidrych Rhys, poet and journalist (died 1987)
John Griffith Williams, writer (died 1987)
6 January - Owen Roberts, educator, 79
19 January - Anna Leonowens, governess who claimed Welsh birth (but was actually born in India)
24 January - Charles Taylor, naval officer and Wales rugby international, 51 (killed in action)
30 January - Thomas Benbow Phillips, pioneer settler, 85
21 March - Edward Pegge, Wales international rugby player, 50
25 April - William Charles Williams, VC recipient, 34 (killed in action)
6 June - John Lloyd, political reformer, 81
31 July - Billy Geen, soldier and Wales international rugby union player, 24 (killed in action)
7 September - Robert Lewis-Lloyd, rower and barrister, High Sheriff of Radnorshire, 79
26 September - Keir Hardie, MP for Merthyr Tydfil
27 September - Richard Garnons Williams, soldier and Wales international rugby union player, 59 (killed in action)
30 September - Rupert Price Hallowes, VC recipient, 34 (killed in action)
2 October - Lord Ninian Crichton-Stuart, politician, 32 (killed in action)
22 November - Llewellyn John Montfort Bebb, Principal of St David's College, Lampeter, 53
29 November - Rachel Davies (Rahel o Fôn), Baptist preacher, 69
10 December - David Jenkins, composer, 66
17 December - John Rhys, philologist
date unknown - David Gwynne-Vaughan, botanist
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