1918 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1918 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- The beginning of an influenza epidemic which lasts into the following year and kills about 10,000 people in Wales.
- 26 January - An Irish steamship, the Cork, is torpedoed by a U-boat off Point Lynas in Anglesey. Twelve crew are killed.
- 29 January - The steamship Ethelinda is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries. Twenty-six crew are killed.
- 4 February - The steamship Treveal is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries. Thirty-three people are killed.
- 5 February - The steamship Mexico City is torpedoed by a U-boat off South Stack, Holyhead. Twenty-nine crew are killed.
- 7 March - The steamship Kenmare is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries. Twenty-six crew are killed.
- 7 April - The steamship Boscastle is torpedoed by a U-boat off Strumble Head. Eighteen crew are killed.
- 21 April - The steamship Landonia is torpedoed by a U-boat off Strumble Head. Twenty-one crew are killed.
- 9 May - The steamships Baron Ailsa and Wileysike are torpedoed by a U-boat off Pembrokeshire. Fourteen crew are killed.
- 19 May - The German U-boat U-B 119 is sunk off Bardsey Island.
- 15 June - The steamship Strathnairn is torpedoed by a U-boat off Bishops and Clerks, Pembrokeshire. Twenty-one crew are killed.
- August - August is fixed as the annual month of the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
- 22 August - The steamship Palmelia is torpedoed by a U-boat off South Stack, Holyhead. Twenty-eight people are killed.
- 16 September - The steamship Serula is torpedoed by a U-boat off Strumble Head. Seventeen crew are killed.
- 18 September - The 38th (Welsh) Division is involved in the Battle of Epéhy.
- 10 October - Three seamen are killed while returning to their ship by boat at Milford Haven.
- 14 October - The steamship Dundalk is torpedoed by a U-boat off the Skerries. Twenty-one crew are killed.
- 11 November - Armistice Day. Able Seaman Richard Morgan, serving aboard HMS Garland, is the last Welshman – and the last Briton – to be killed in action in the First World War, in the course of which over 40,000 Welsh people have lost their lives.
- 14 December - United Kingdom general election:
- Edward T. John (Liberal MP for East Denbighshire) defects to the Labour Party.
- David Alfred Thomas is created Viscount Rhondda.
Arts and literature
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - John Thomas Job
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - D. Emrys Lewis
New books
- David Delta Evans - The Rosicrucian
- Moelona - Rhamant y Rhos
Music
Film
Sport
- Baseball - First records of the Grange Gasworks Ladies team playing in Cardiff.
Births
Deaths
- 15 February - William Evans, judge
- 13 April
- 3 July - David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda, industrialist and politician, 62
- 13 September - Samuel Thomas Evans, MP, 59
- 21 September - Emily Charlotte Talbot, heiress, 78
- 27 September - Morfydd Llwyn-Owen, composer, 26
- 15 October - William David Phillips, Wales international rugby player, 63
- 4 November - Wilfred Owen, poet from the Welsh borders, 25 (killed in action)
- 25 November - William Griffith, mining engineer (with Cecil Rhodes)
- 1 December - John Griffiths, artist
- 1 December - Fred Perrett, Welsh international rugby union, 27 (died of wounds received in action)