1884 in Wales

1884 in Wales
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1884 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
Other events of 1884

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1884 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

18 January — Dr William Price cremates his dead baby son. He is later tried at Cardiff Assizes, and is acquitted.
27 January — 14 miners are killed in an accident at the Naval Colliery, Penygraig.
18 October — Opening of University of Wales, Bangor
8 November — 15 miners are killed in an accident at the Pochin Colliery, Tredegar.
Isolation hospital for cholera patients opens at Flat Holm.
A Chair of Celtic Studies is founded at Cardiff University.
Closure of Talargoch lead mine, near Dyserth.
Argentine Congress authorises the construction of the Central of Chubut Railway by Lewis Jones y Cia.

Football — Oswestry win the Welsh Cup for the first time.
Rugby union — The first international match is played at Cardiff Arms Park (between Wales and Ireland).

9 January — William Llewellyn Morgan, Wales international rugby union player (died 1960)
19 February — Clement Davies, politician (died 1962)
6 April — J. G. Parry-Thomas, engineer and racing driver (died 1927)
7 April — C. H. Dodd, theologian (died 1973)
12 April — Tenby Davies, half-mile world champion runner (died 1932)
20 June — John Dyke, Wales international rugby union player (died 1960)
31 July — Lionel Rees, aviator, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1955)
15 August — Ivor Morgan, Wales international rugby union player (died 1943)
21 August — John Chandless, cricketer (died 1968)
24 November — Jack Jones, novelist (died 1970)
3 December — Bailey Davies, Wales international rugby union player (died 1968)
14 December — Margaret Davies, patron of the arts (died 1963)
date unknown
- Arthur Jenkins, politician (died 1946)
- Thomas Jones, footballer (died 1958)