1890 in Wales

1890 in Wales
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1890 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
Other events of 1890

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

Incumbents

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.
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.
21 December - Beginning of a 3-week period of severe winter weather causing deaths and disruption to daily life in many parts of Wales.
Y Cymro is launched.
Queen Elisabeth of Romania visits Llandudno, staying for five weeks and later remembering it as "a beautiful haven of peace"; the phrase was later translated into Welsh and used as the town's motto.
Opening of Rock Mills woollen mill at Capel Dewi.

Cricket - The England ladies' team plays an exhibition match at Newport.
Football - The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the third time.
Hockey - The Welsh Hockey Association is founded.
Rugby union - Wales win their very first international against England. The only try was scored by Cardiff's 'Buller' Stadden.

2 January - Madoline Thomas, actress (died 1989)
14 February - Nina Hamnett, artist (died 1956)
20 April - Ernest Roberts, politician (died 1969)
5 May - George Littlewood Hirst, Wales international rugby player (died 1967)
14 June - Dai Hiddlestone, Wales international rugby player (died 1973)
21 June - W. J. A. Davies, rugby player (died 1967)
28 July - Horace Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1916)
30 August - Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, novelist (died 1977)
13 September - Johnny Basham, boxer (died 1947)
19 September - Jim Griffiths, politician, first Secretary of State for Wales (died 1975)
16 December - P. J. Grigg, politician (died 1964)
date unknown - Jack Anthony, jockey (d. 1954)

17 January - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, landowner, 86
20 January - Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician and patron of Patagonian Welsh colony, 68
19 March - Edmund Swetenham, MP for Caernarfon, 67
21 March - Benjamin Thomas Williams, politician, 57
29 June - Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, 589
12 July - David Pugh, politician, 84
6 August - Thomas Babington Jones, cricketer, 39
20 July - David Davies "Llandinam", industrialist, 71