1904 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1904 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

January - Opening of Llanelli North Dock.
5 January - Opening of Tanat Valley Light Railway betwen Lynclys and Llangynog.
February - Beginning of the 1904-1905 Welsh Revival.
4 May - Frederick Henry Royce meets Charles Stewart Rolls to discuss the Rolls-Royce agreement.
21 July - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Queen Alexandra open the Elan Valley Reservoirs.
28–29 September - A conference at Blaenannerch reinforces the strength of the religious revival.
October - Evan Roberts begins preaching.
3 October - Five people are killed in a railway accident near Loughor.
November - Joseph Jenkins, instigator of the religious revival, is guest preacher at meetings in Bethany, Ammanford, and "converts" incumbent minister Nantlais Williams.
Second Meeting of the Celtic Association is held at Caernarfon.
Orthopaedic surgeon Robert Jones becomes Honorary Surgeon to the Baschurch Home in Shropshire, which he was to develop into the world's first specialized orthopaedic hospital.
Thomas Marchant Williams is knighted in recognition of his role in founding the National Eisteddfod Society.
In local authority elections, the Liberal Party win control of all county councils in Wales.

National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Rhyl
- Chair - J. Machreth Rees
- Crown - Richard Machno Humphreys

John Romilly Allen - Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times
Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney - History of Monmouthshire, vol. 1
Owen Dafydd - Cynhyrchion Barddonol yr Hen Felinydd Owen Dafydd Cwmaman (posthumously published)
Eluned Morgan (author) - Dringo'r Andes
Silyn Roberts - Trystan ac Esyllt a Chaniadau Eraill

Rugby union - Percy Frank Bush scores 104 points for the British team on their tour of Australia and New Zealand.

March - Daniel Granville West, Baron Granville-West, politician (died 1984)
6 March - Hugh Williams, actor and dramatist (died 1969)
8 June - Angus McBean, photographer (died 1990)
26 June - Prof Seaborne Davies, law teacher and three times President of the National Eisteddfod (died 1984)
27 June - Emrys Davies, cricketer (died 1975)
29 June - Lynn Ungoed-Thomas, politician (died 1972)
31 July - Harold Davies, Baron Davies of Leek, politician (died 1985)
27 September - John Gwilym Jones, dramatist (died 1988)
30 September - Waldo Williams, poet (died 1971)
15 October - Sir Julian Hodge, banker (died 2004)
3 November - Caradog Prichard, poet and novelist (died 1980)
date unknown
- Euros Bowen, poet (died 1988)
- Leslie Morris, politician in Canada (died 1964)
- Sir Thomas Parry, academic (died 1985)
- Richard Vaughan, novelist (died 1983)