1902 in Wales

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1902 in Wales
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1902 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1902

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

4 March - Five miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfaen Colliery, Blaenavon.
3 June - Six miners are killed in an accident at Gerwen Colliery, Llanelli.
31 July - Opening of first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles.
August - Opening of Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic (it opens to passengers on 22 December).
11 November - Five miners are killed in an accident at Deep Navigation Colliery, Mountain Ash.
Alfred Mond founds his nickel works at Clydach in the Swansea valley.
230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada.
Opening of Caernarfon electric power station.
Isambard Owen is knighted.

Gymnastics - The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed.
Rugby union - Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.

4 February - Tal Harris, Wales international rugby player (died 1963)
25 February - Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician (died 1993)
4 March - David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973)
19 March - Dilys Cadwaladr, poet (died 1979)
22 April - Megan Lloyd George, politician (died 1966)
18 June - Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963)
17 July - Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU (died 1984)
2 September - Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist (died 1979)
21 September - E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist of Welsh descent (died 1972)
27 October (in Oxford) - Harold Arthur Harris, academic (died 1974)
date unknown - Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981)

v t e 1902 in Europe

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