1910 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1910 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- 15 January – 10 February - The United Kingdom general election produces a hung parliament. It is the first election in which all Welsh constituencies have been contested. Of a total of 34 MPs elected in Wales, five are Labour and two Conservative. The 27 Liberal MPs include David Alfred Thomas for Cardiff (replacing Ivor Guest, who had been raised to the peerage). Conservatives include William Ormsby-Gore, later Baron Harlech. Unsuccessful candidates include Vernon Hartshorn and Sir George Fossett Roberts.
- 2 June - Charles Rolls makes the first non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by air, flying from England to France and back again in just over nine hours.
- 13 June - Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his officers enjoy a farewell dinner at the Royal Hotel in St Mary's Street, Cardiff, before beginning their attempt to be the first men to reach the South Pole.
- 15 June - Captain Robert Falcon Scott sets off on his fatal voyage to Antarctica on the ship Terra Nova, sailing from Cardiff.
- 23 June - Edward, eldest son of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary, is created Prince of Wales, aged 16.
- 12 July - At the Bournemouth International Aviation Meeting, Charles Rolls becomes the first Briton to be killed in an air crash.
- August - A strike begins at the Cambrian Colliery, as a result of a lockout. This chain of events culminates in the Tonypandy Riot, considered a major event in Welsh history.
- 12 October - Three crew members from the St David's lifeboat drown in Ramsey Sound near Ramsey Island.
- 4 November - Ernest Thompson Willows makes the first flight from England to France in his dirigible, "City of Cardiff", having earlier in the year made the first flight across the Bristol Channel by airship, from Cardiff to Minehead.
- 3–19 December - The second United Kingdom general election of 1910 results in a Liberal government. Wales elects 26 Liberal, five Labour, and three Conservative MPs.
- 18 December - A storm causes substantial damage to the promenade at Aberystwyth.
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Arts and literature
Awards
New books
Music
Sport
- Boxing
- The Welsh Amateur Boxing Association is formed.
- 20 December - Freddie Welsh beats Jim Driscoll in a controversial fight for the EBU Lightweight title
Births
Deaths
- 27 January - John Cory (born 1828)
- 7 March - Bob Thomas, Wales international rugby player
- 8 March - David Gwynn, Wales international rugby player, 48
- 25 April - Ann Harriet Hughes (Gwyneth Vaughan), novelist
- 6 May - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, Prince of Wales 1841–1901, 68
- 12 July - Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator and co-founder of Rolls-Royce, 32
- 24 November - Thomas Lloyd Williams, Welsh-American writer, 79