1909 in Wales

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1909 in Wales
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1909 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
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.
2 July - Thirty-six men are killed when a trench collapses during construction of the Alexandra Dock part of Newport Docks.
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.
December - Thomas "Toya" Lewis is awarded the Albert Medal by Edward VII for his heroism in rescuing survivors of the Newport Dock collapse earlier in the year (see 2 July).^[1]
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.

4 January - Glyndwr Michael, vagrant whose body is used as Maj. William Martin, RM, in Operation Mincemeat (died 1943)
29 January - George Thomas, 1st Viscount Tonypandy (died 1997)
14 February - Harry Peacock, Wales rugby union player (died 1996)
30 March - Dai Thomas, Wales national rugby player (date of death unknown)
1 April - George Ewart Evans, folklorist and oral historian (died 1988)
11 May - Aneirin Talfan Davies, writer and publisher (died 1980)
11 June - Ronnie Boon, Wales rugby union player (died 1998)
12 June - Mansel Thomas, composer and conductor (died 1986)
28 July - Jack Morley, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1972)
25 August - Arwel Hughes, composer (died 1988)
30 September - Arthur Probert, politician (died 1975)
1 October - Jim Lang, Wales rugby union player (died 1991)
24 October - Elwyn Jones, Baron Elwyn-Jones, politician (died 1989)
25 October - Walter Vickery, Wales national rugby player (died 2000)
7 November - Eirene White, politician (died 1999)
29 November - Goronwy Rees, journalist and academic (died 1979)
14 December - Ronald Welch, historical novelist (died 1982)
date unknown
- Isaac Davies (Eic Davies), dramatist (died 1993)
- Evan Roberts, botanist (died 1991)
- Howard Thomas, radio and television producer (died 1986)

9 January - Frederick Courtenay Morgan, politician, 74
9 March - David Thomas (Dewi Hefin), poet, 80
31 May - Thomas Price, Prime Minister of South Australia
9 June - Walter Rice Evans, Wales international rugby player
1 August - Hugh Rowlands, VC recipient
22 October - David Rogers, politician in Canada, 79
10 November - George Essex Evans, Welsh-Australian poet, 46 (complications arising from gall bladder surgery)
11 December - Ludwig Mond, industrialist
13 December - Sir Alfred Lewis Jones, shipping magnate, 64
date unknown
- Robert Bird, Welsh politician
- Ivor James, educationist
- Catherine Prichard, poet

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