1890 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1890 to Wales and its people.

1890
in
Wales

Centuries:
  • 17th
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1870s
  • 1880s
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
See also:
1890 in
The United Kingdom
Ireland
Scotland

Incumbents

Events

  • 6 February - In an accident at Llanerch Colliery, Pontypool, 176 miners are killed.
  • 10 March - In an accident at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 86 miners are killed.
  • 7 April - An Easter Monday conference at Llangefni leads to agreement with employers on a shorter working day for male agricultural labourers.
  • 13 April - At a by-election in Caernarfon, David Lloyd George wins the seat for the Liberals from the Conservatives, defeating H. J. E. Nanney, the local squire; Lloyd George remains the constituency MP until his death in 1945.
  • 22 May - Y Cymro is launched by Isaac Foulkes (Llyfrbryf) in Liverpool as a liberal weekly Welsh language "national newspaper for Welshmen at home and abroad"; it is published until 1909.
  • Summer - Queen Elisabeth of Romania visits Llandudno, staying for five weeks and later remembering it as "a beautiful haven of peace"; the phrase is later translated into Welsh and used as the town's motto.
  • 21 December - Beginning of a 3-week period of severe winter weather causing deaths and disruption to daily life in many parts of Wales.
  • Opening of the Rock Mill watermill for woollen milling at Capel Dewi, Llandysul.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales - held at Bangor

  • Chair - Thomas Tudno Jones, "Y Llafurwr" [1]
  • Crown - John John Roberts, "Ardderchog Lu'r Merthyri"[2]

New books

Music

    Sport

    Births

    Deaths

    References

    1. "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 11 December 2019.
    2. "Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
    3. Nina Hamnett (23 March 2011). Laughing Torso - Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett. Read Books Limited. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-4465-4552-2.
    4. Great Britain. Foreign Office (1949). The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book for ... Harrison and Sons. p. 3937.
    5. All India Reporter. D.V. Chitaley. 1938. p. 65.
    6. Meic Stephens (1 October 2007). Poetry 1900-2000. Summersdale Publishers Limited. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-84839-722-4.
    7. TALBOT, Christopher Rice Mansel (1803-1890), of Penrice Castle and Margam Park, Glam. History of Parliament Online
    8. Larrain, Jacob (1893). Biografía del doctor Guillermo Rawson. La Plata: Imp., Lit. y Encuad. de Solá Hnos. Sesé y Ca. (in Spanish)
    9. Cheltenham Looker-In, March 1890
    10. "The Late Mr. Swetemham, M.P." Llangollen Advertiser via National Library of Wales. 28 March 1890. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
    11. "Will of the Late Mr B. T. Williams, Q.C.|1890-04-28|South Wales Daily News - Welsh Newspapers". newspapers.library.wales. Retrieved 5 March 2020.
    12. James Louis Garvin; Franklin Henry Hooper; Warren E. Cox (1929). The Encyclopedia Britannica. The Encyclopedia Britannica Company. p. 891.
    13. "The Late Mr David Pugh M.P." Carmarthen Journal. 17 October 1890. p. 8. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
    14. Bulmer-Thomas, Ivor. "David Davis, Llandinam (1818-1890), industrialist and Member of Parliament". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 December 2019.
    15. Walter Thomas Morgan. "James, Charles Herbert (1817-1890), M.P." Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 30 January 2021.
    16. Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Salisbury, Enoch Robert Gibbon" . Dictionary of National Biography. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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