Incumbents

• Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
  
   - George, Prince of Wales
  George V of the United Kingdom
  George V was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 through the First World War until his death in 1936....
  
  , son of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
  Edward VII of the United Kingdom
  Edward VII was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Emperor of India from 22 January 1901 until his death in 1910...
  
  
• Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
  
   - Mary of Teck
  Mary of Teck
  Mary of Teck was the queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, as the wife of King-Emperor George V....
  
  
• Archdruid
  Archdruid
  The Archdruid is the title used by the presiding official of the Gorsedd.The Archdruid presides over the most important ceremonies at the National Eisteddfod of Wales including the Crowning of the Bard, The Award of the Prose Medal and Chairing of the Bard. From 1932 only former winners of the...
  
   of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
  National Eisteddfod of Wales
  The National Eisteddfod of Wales is the most important of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales.- Organisation :...
  
   - Dyfed
  Evan Rees (Dyfed)
  Evan Rees , known by the bardic name Dyfed, was a Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.-Early life:...
  
  

Events

• 3 January - Formal opening of the residence at St Deiniol's Library
  St Deiniol's Library
  Gladstone's Library, known until 2010 as St Deiniol's Library , is a residential library in Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales.The library was founded by the Victorian statesman and politician William Ewart Gladstone ....
  
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• 28 January - In a colliery explosion at Ammanford, David Rees Griffiths
  David Rees Griffiths
  David Rees Griffiths , also known by his bardic name of Amanwy, was a Welsh poet, and an older brother of politician Jim Griffiths....
  
   is seriously injured. His brother is one of two men killed.
• March - Frank Mason, editor of the Tenby
  Tenby
  Tenby is a walled seaside town in Pembrokeshire, South West Wales, lying on Carmarthen Bay.Notable features of Tenby include of sandy beaches; the 13th century medieval town walls, including the Five Arches barbican gatehouse ; 15th century St...
  
   Observer, challenges the local council's right to ban him from their meetings. The Admission of the Press Act, 1908 is passed as a result.
• 5 March - Edgeworth David
  Edgeworth David
  Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David KBE, DSO, FRS, was a Welsh Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer. A household name in his lifetime, David's most significant achievements were discovering the major Hunter Valley coalfield in New South Wales and leading the first expedition to reach the...
  
   leads the party attempting the ascent of Mount Erebus
  Mount Erebus
  Mount Erebus in Antarctica is the southernmost historically active volcano on Earth, the second highest volcano in Antarctica , and the 6th highest ultra mountain on an island. With a summit elevation of , it is located on Ross Island, which is also home to three inactive volcanoes, notably Mount...
  
   in the Antarctic.
• 18 June - A giant turtle
  Turtle
  Turtles are reptiles of the order Testudines , characterised by a special bony or cartilaginous shell developed from their ribs that acts as a shield...
  
   weighing half a ton is pulled from the sea at Pwllheli
  Pwllheli
  Pwllheli is a community and the main market town of the Llŷn Peninsula in Gwynedd, north-western Wales. It has a population of 3,861, of which a large proportion, 81 per cent, are Welsh speaking. Pwllheli is the place where Plaid Cymru was founded. It is the birthplace of Albert Evans-Jones -...
  
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• 1 September - The barque Amazon sinks off Margam
  Margam
  Margam is a suburb of Port Talbot in the Welsh county borough of Neath Port Talbot, Wales, close to junction 39 of the M4 motorway.- History :...
  
   Sands, with the loss of 18 crew.
• November – The North and South Wales Bank is absorbed into the London City and Midland Bank
  Midland Bank
  Midland Bank Plc was one of the Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century. It is now part of HSBC. The bank was founded as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836...
  
  , bringing an end to banknote issue in Wales.
• The South Wales Miners' Federation
  South Wales Miners' Federation
  The South Wales Miners' Federation , nicknamed "The Fed", was a trade union for miners in South Wales.The union was founded on 24 October 1898, following the defeat of the South Wales miners' strike of 1898...
  
   becomes affiliated to the Labour Party.
• The Coal Mines Regulation Act 1908 ("Eight Hours Act") limits the amount of time spent by coal miners underground.
• John Ballinger
  John Ballinger
  Sir John Ballinger CBE was a Welsh librarian, the first librarian at the National Library of Wales. He has been described by the current librarian at the National Library of Wales, Andrew Green, as "one of the most distinguished professional librarians of his time".-Biography:Ballinger was born in...
  
   becomes first librarian of the National Library of Wales
  National Library of Wales
  The National Library of Wales , Aberystwyth, is the national legal deposit library of Wales; one of the Welsh Government sponsored bodies.Welsh is its main medium of communication...
  
  .
• A factory for making artificial silk
  Silk
  Silk is a natural protein fiber, some forms of which can be woven into textiles. The best-known type of silk is obtained from the cocoons of the larvae of the mulberry silkworm Bombyx mori reared in captivity...
  
   opens at Greenfield in north-east Wales.
• Construction of the lighthouse
  Lighthouse
  A lighthouse is a tower, building, or other type of structure designed to emit light from a system of lamps and lenses or, in older times, from a fire, and used as an aid to navigation for maritime pilots at sea or on inland waterways....
  
   at Strumble Head
  Strumble Head
  Strumble Head is a rocky headland in north Pembrokeshire, Wales.It gives its name to Strumble Head Lighthouse and Strumble VOR, a way point in many trans-atlantic flights....
  
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Arts and literature

• Sydney Curnow Vosper
  Sydney Curnow Vosper
  Sydney Curnow Vosper RWS, RWA was a painter and etcher of landscapes and figure subjects. His later work has a close association with Wales and Brittany...
  
   completes his iconic watercolour of Welsh piety, Salem.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales
  National Eisteddfod of Wales
  The National Eisteddfod of Wales is the most important of several eisteddfodau that are held annually, mostly in Wales.- Organisation :...
  
   - held in Llangollen
  Llangollen
  Llangollen is a small town and community in Denbighshire, north-east Wales, situated on the River Dee and on the edge of the Berwyn mountains. It has a population of 3,412.-History:...
  
  
  • Chair - John James Williams
    John James Williams (J. J.)
    John James Williams , commonly known by his bardic name of "J.J.", was a Welsh poet and served as Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales from 1936 to 1939.-References:...
    
    
  • Crown - Hugh Emyr Davies

New books

• W. H. Davies
  W. H. Davies
  William Henry Davies or W. H. Davies was a Welsh poet and writer. Davies spent a significant part of his life as a tramp or vagabond in the United States and United Kingdom, but became known as one of the most popular poets of his time...
  
   - Autobiography of a Super-Tramp
• Silyn Roberts
  Silyn Roberts
  Robert Silyn Roberts was a Welsh clergyman, writer, teacher and pacifist.Roberts, a Calvinistic Methodist minister, was a noted Welsh-language poet, the winner of the Crown at the 1902 National Eisteddfod of Wales...
  
   - Y Blaid Lafur Anibynnol, ei Hanes a'i Hamcan
• Gwyneth Vaughan - Plant y Gorthrwm
• Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn)
  Eliseus Williams (Eifion Wyn)
  Eliseus Williams, better known by his bardic name Eifion Wyn , was a Welsh language poet, born in Porthmadog in the old county of Caernarfonshire, north Wales...
  
   - Telynegion Maes a Môr

Music

• David Evans
  David Evans (composer)
  David Evans was a Welsh musician and composer.Evans was born at Resolven, Glamorgan. He worked in the coal industry as a teenager, but music was always his primary interest. He won a music scholarship and became a pupil of Joseph Parry, which led to his qualifying at University of Wales, Cardiff,...
  
   becomes professor of the Music department at University of Wales, Cardiff.
• Harry Evans
  Harry Evans (composer)
  Harry Evans , was a Welsh musician, conductor and composer.He was born in Dowlais near Merthyr Tydfil, and learned music at home, showing such precocious talent that he was appointed organist of Gwernllwyn Congregational Church at the age of nine...
  
   - Dafydd ap Gwilym

Sport

• Boxing
  Boxing
  Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...
  
  
  • 24 February - Jim Driscoll
    Jim Driscoll
    James "Jim" Driscoll commonly known as Peerless Jim was a Welsh boxer who learned his trade in the boxing ring and used it to fight his way out of poverty....
    
     wins the Commonwealth featherweight
    Featherweight
    Featherweight is a weight class division in the sport of boxing. There are similarly named divisions under several Mixed Martial Arts organizations and in Greco-Roman wrestling.-Professional boxing:...
    
     title.
• Olympics
  • October - At the postponed 1908 Summer Olympics
    1908 Summer Olympics
    The 1908 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the IV Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in 1908 in London, England, United Kingdom. These games were originally scheduled to be held in Rome. At the time they were the fifth modern Olympic games...
    
    , Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden
    Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden
    Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, 4th Baron Seaford , was a British peer, landowner, writer and patron of the arts. He was also a motorboat racer who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.-Biography:...
    
    , competes unsuccessfully in the motorboat racing.
• Rugby league
  Rugby league
  Rugby league football, usually called rugby league, is a full contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular grass field. One of the two codes of rugby football, it originated in England in 1895 by a split from Rugby Football Union over paying players...
  
  
  • 1 January - The first-ever international match is held at Aberdare
    Aberdare
    Aberdare is an industrial town in Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, situated at the confluence of the Rivers Dare and Cynon. The population at the census was 31,705...
    
    , where Wales defeat New Zealand 9 - 8. The match was won by a last minute try from former Welsh
    Wales national rugby union team
    The Wales national rugby union team represent Wales in international rugby union tournaments. They compete annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland. Wales have won the Six Nations and its predecessors 24 times outright, second only to England with...
    
     rugby union international Dai Jones.
  • Aberdare RLFC
    Aberdare RLFC
    Aberdare Rugby League Football Club was a professional rugby league club based in Aberdare, Wales playing in the Welsh League and Northern Union...
    
    , Barry RLFC
    Barry RLFC
    Barry Rugby League Football Club was a professional rugby league club based in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales playing in the Welsh League and Northern Union...
    
    , Mid-Rhondda RLFC
    Mid-Rhondda RLFC
    Mid-Rhondda Rugby League Football Club was a professional rugby league club based in Tonypandy, Wales playing in the Welsh League and Northern Union. Based at the Athletic Ground in Tonypandy, Mid-Rhondda were one of the first professional Welsh teams, formed in 1908 but folding after just a single...
    
     and Treherbert RLFC
    Treherbert RLFC
    Treherbert Rugby League Football Club was a professional rugby league club based in Treherbert, Wales playing in the Welsh League and Northern Union. Based at the Athletic Ground, Treherbert were one of the first professional Welsh teams, formed in 1908 but folding after just two seasons...
    
     are formed, joining Ebbw Vale and Merthyr Tydfil in competing for the Welsh League
    Welsh League
    The Welsh League was the first club rugby league competition in Wales. Its inaugural season was in 1908/09 when four additional teams were formed to join Ebbw Vale RLFC and Merthyr Tydfil RLFC, which allowed a league tournament to take place...
    
    , the first Welsh rugby league competition.
• Rugby union
  Rugby union
  Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
  
  
  • Wales win their first Grand Slam
    Grand Slam (Rugby Union)
    In rugby union, a Grand Slam occurs when one team in the Six Nations Championship manages to beat all the others during one year's competition...
    
     and fifth Triple Crown
    Triple Crown (Rugby Union)
    In rugby union, the Triple Crown is an honour contested annually by the four national teams of the British Isles who compete within the larger Six Nations Championship: England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. If any one team manages to win all their games against the other three they win the...
    
    .

Births

• 22 March - Martin Davies
  Martin Davies
  Sir Martin Davies CBE FBA FSA was a British museum director and civil servant.Davies read mathematics and modern languages at Cambridge University. He first joined the staff of the National Gallery, the institution to which he was to devote his career, as an attaché in 1930...
  
  , art historian (d. 1978)
• 8 May - Hubert Day
  Hubert Day
  Hubert Day was a rugby hooker who played rugby union for Newport and rugby league for Salford. He was awarded five caps for Wales under union rules and was part of the Welsh side that won the 1931 Five Nations Championship...
  
  , Wales international rugby union player (d. 1977)
• 29 May - Diana Morgan
  Diana Morgan (screenwriter)
  Mary Diana Morgan was a Welsh playwright and screenwriter, mostly associated with her work for Ealing Studios as Diana Morgan. She was married to fellow screenwriter Robert MacDermot.-Career:Mary Diana Morgan was born in Cardiff, Wales on 29 May, 1908...
  
  , playwright and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 5 July - Francis Jones
  Francis Jones (Welsh historian)
  Major Francis Jones CVO, TD, DL, FSA, MA, KStJ , was an author, archivist, historian and officer of arms.-Early and private life:...
  
  , heraldic expert (d. 1993)
• 10 July - Donald Peers
  Donald Peers
  Donald Peers was a popular Welsh singer. His best remembered rendition and signature song was "In a Shady Nook by a Babbling Brook".-Biography:...
  
  , singer (d. 1973)
• 15 August - Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
  Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
  Lewis John Wynford Vaughan-Thomas CBE was a British newspaper journalist and radio and television broadcaster. In later life he took the name Vaughan-Thomas after his father....
  
  , journalist (d. 1987)
• 14 December - Claude Davey
  Claude Davey
  Claude Davey was a Wales international rugby union player who played club rugby for several teams, most notably Sale and Swansea. He was awarded 23 caps for Wales and captained his country eight times...
  
  , Wales international rugby union player (d. 2001)

Deaths

• 1 February - Buckley Roderick
  Buckley Roderick
  William Buckley Roderick was a Welsh solicitor, international rugby union forward and later a Vice-Consular for Spain...
  
  , Wales international rugby player, 46
• 27 February - Norman Biggs
  Norman Biggs
  Norman Witchell Biggs was a Welsh international rugby union wing who played club rugby for Cardiff and county rugby for Glamorgan. Both Biggs and his brother Selwyn played international rugby for Wales, though they never played together in the same match for Wales...
  
  , Wales international rugby player, 37
• 21 June - Allen Raine
  Allen Raine
  Allen Raine was the pseudonym of the Welsh novelist Anne Adalisa Beynon Puddicombe .She was born Anne Adalisa Evans in Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire, the daughter of a lawyer Benjamin and Letitia Grace Evans...
  
  , novelist
• 4 September - Thomas Judson
  Thomas Judson
  Thomas Haigh Judson was an English-born international rugby union player who played club rugby for Llanelli and international rugby for Wales...
  
  , Wales international rugby player
• 1 December - Howell Jones
  Howell Jones
  Howell Jones was a Welsh rugby union forward who played club rugby for Neath and county rugby for Glamorgan. He gained just a single cap for the Wales national team, in 1904...
  
  , Wales international rugby player, 26
• date unknown
  • Solomon Andrews, entrepreneur
  • Caroline Elizabeth Williams, author