1909 in Wales

1909 in Wales
Other years
1906 \| 1907 \| 1908 << All >> 1910 \| 1911 \| 1912
1909 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
Other events of 1909

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1909 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

16 January - Edgeworth David is a member of the expedition which successfully reaches the Magnetic South Pole.
26 July - 7 August the National Pageant of Wales is held at Cardiff Castle.
August - Noah Ablett is a founding member of the Plebs' League at Ruskin College, Oxford.
October - Monthly rainfall of 56.5 inches is measured at Llyn Llydaw, Snowdonia - a British record.
29 October - A mining accident at Darren Colliery, New Tredegar, kills 26 men.
Thirty-six men are killed when a trench collapses during construction of the Alexandra Dock part of Newport Docks.
King's Dock, part of Swansea Docks, is opened.
Thomas Rees becomes principal of Bala-Bangor Theological College.
The first mines rescue station in south Wales is opened at Aberaman.
The Bryn Eglwys slate quarry, the Abergynolwyn estate and village and Talyllyn Railway are purchased by Sir Henry Haydn Jones.

Boxing
- 23 August - Freddie Welsh wins the European lightweight title.
- 8 November - Freddie Welsh wins the British lightweight title, and becomes the first Welshman to be awarded a Lonsdale Belt.
- Thomas Thomas is awarded the first Lonsdale Belt at middleweight.

Athletics (track and field)
- 23 August - Welshman Fred 'Tenby' Davies beats Irishman Bert Day at Pontypridd to become world champion over the half-mile distance.

29 January - George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy
30 March - Dai Thomas, Wales national rugby player
11 June - Ronnie Boon, Wales rugby union player
12 June - Mansel Thomas, composer and conductor
28 July - Jack Morley, Wales and British Lions rugby player
25 August - Arwel Hughes, composer
30 September - Arthur Probert, politician
1 October - Jim Lang, Wales rugby union player
24 October - Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, politician
25 October - Walter Vickery, Wales national rugby player
7 November - Eirene White, politician
29 November - Goronwy Rees, journalist and academic
14 December - Ronald Welch, historical novelist
date unknown
- Aneirin Talfan Davies, writer and publisher
- Isaac Davies (Eic Davies), dramatist
- Evan Roberts, botanist
- Howard Thomas, radio and television producer