1889 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1889 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
- Princess of Wales - Alexandra of Denmark
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Clwydfardd
Events
- January - First Glamorgan County Council elections are held.[1]
- 8 February - Nine people drown in a ferry accident at Pembroke Dock.
- 13 March - 20 miners are killed in an accident at the Brynmally Colliery, Wrexham.
- June - A lion escapes from a travelling menagerie at Llandrindod Wells.[2]
- 18 July - Opening of the first dock basin at Barry.
- 3 August - Opening of Hawarden Bridge.
- 12 August - The passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act marks the beginning of secondary education in Wales.
- 15 August - Three men are killed in a mining accident at Wenvoe Quarry, Glamorgan.[3]
- 26 August - Act of incorporation of the Barry Railway Company#Vale of Glamorgan Railway.
- Approximate date - The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain is co-founded in Salford as the United Kingdom Van Dwellers Protection Association by Jacob Studt and other active Welsh cinema pioneers.
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales - held at Brecon
- Chair - Evan Rees
- Crown - Howell Elvet Lewis
New books
- Owen Morgan Edwards - O'r Bala i Geneva
Music
Sport
- Cricket - Glamorgan County Cricket Club plays its first match, against Warwickshire at Cardiff Arms Park.
- Rugby union - Bedwas RFC, Blackwood RFC and Llantwit Major RFC are formed.
Births
- 12 January - John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster and philanthropist (died 1922)
- 22 January - John Emlyn-Jones, politician (died 1952)
- 28 January - Phil Waller, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1917)
- 31 January - Jack Evans, footballer (died 1971)
- 1 February - John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)
- 10 February - Howard Spring, novelist (died 1965)
- 28 February - George Jeffreys, Pentecostalist (died 1962)
- 5 May - Stanley Winmill, Wales international rugby union player (died 1940)
- 24 June - Harry Symonds, cricketer (died 1945)
- 17 July - Aled Owen Roberts, politician (died 1949)
- 5 August - William Davies Thomas, academic (died 1954)
- 21 August - Henry Lewis, Professor at Swansea University (died 1968)
- 23 October - William Havard, Bishop of St Davids and international rugby player (died 1956)
- 11 December - Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)
Deaths
- 21 January - Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, 81
- 27 May - George Owen Rees, Welsh-Italian doctor, 75
- 8 June - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet, 44
- 17 June (in St Petersburg) - John Hughes, industrialist, 73
- 26 June - Walter Rice Howell Powell, landowner and politician, 69
- 28 September - Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player, 34
- 29 October - Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player, 36
- 14 November - James Stephens, stonemason, Chartist, and later Australian trade unionist, 68
- probable - Richard Williams Morgan, clergyman and poet
References
- ↑ "The County Council Elections". Cambrian. 18 January 1889. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
- ↑ Clay, Jeremy (2014-04-19). "Victorian strangeness: The tale of the lion and the spa break". BBC. Retrieved 2014-04-19.
- ↑ Western Mail - Friday 16 August 1889, p.3, Accessed via The British Newspaper Archive (subscription required). Retrieved 19 November 2014.
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