1911 in Wales

1911 in Wales
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Other events of 1911

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1911 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

23 June - The future Edward VIII of the United Kingdom is created Prince of Wales by his father, King George V.
July - Dockers' strike action at Cardiff culminates in rioting. Five hundred troops are drafted into the area.
13 July - The new Prince of Wales is invested with his title in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, devised by David Lloyd George.
23 July - King George V and Queen Mary lay the foundation stone of the new National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth.
August - Rioting in Bargoed, Brynamman, Ebbw Vale and Tredegar. Jewish-owned businesses are attacked. Troops are brought in.
17 August - During a railway strike in Llanelli, two men are shot dead by the Army. Magistrates' homes are attacked and railway trucks are set on fire, resulting in an explosion which kills a further four people.
September/October - Rioting during industrial unrest in Swansea.
A Welsh Nationalist League is founded at Carmarthen to campaign for Home Rule.
Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas drafts the memorandum giving legal deposit status to the National Library of Wales.
University College of North Wales, Bangor, moves to new buildings.

Edward Morgan Humphreys - Dirgelwch yr Anialwch
Sir John Edward Lloyd – A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest
John Ward – The Roman Era in Britain

Boxing - Freddie Welsh loses his British lightweight title to Matt Wells.
Horse racing - Jack Anthony wins the Grand National for the first time, on "Glenside".
Rugby league - Merthyr Tydfil RLFC fold after four seasons.
Rugby union - Wales win their third Grand Slam.

27 March - Alwyn D. Rees, writer (died 1974)
29 August - Raymond Bark-Jones, Wales international rugby player
2 September - Jack Petersen, boxer (died 1990)
4 September - John Robert Jones, philosopher
12 October - Iorrie Isaacs, Wales international rugby player (died 1966)
12 November - Pennar Davies, clergyman and author (died 1996)
20 November - Bernard Cowey, Wales international rugby union player (died 1997)
7 December - John Gwyn Griffiths, academic (died 2004)
date unknown
- Idris Foster, academic (died 1984)
- Dai Francis, miners’ leader (died 1981)
- Alfred Janes, artist (died 1999)
- Gwilym Tilsley, poet and archdruid