1889 in Wales

1889 in Wales
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1889 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
Other events of 1889

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1889 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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.
18 July - Opening of the first dock basin at Barry.
3 August - Opening of Hawarden Bridge.
26 August - Act of incorporation of the Barry Railway.
The passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act marks the beginning of secondary education in Wales.
The Showmen's Guild is co-founded by Jacob Studt and other active Welsh cinema pioneers.

12 January - John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster and philanthropist (died 1922)
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)
24 June - Harry Symonds, cricketer (died 1945)
5 August - William Davies Thomas, academic (died 1954)
23 October - William Havard, Bishop of St. Davids and international rugby player (died 1956)
11 December - Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)

21 January - Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, 81
June - John Hughes, industrialist (in St Petersburg)
8 June - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet, 44
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