1894 in Wales

1894 in Wales
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Other events of 1894

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1894 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

February — The first new intermediate school in Wales opens at Caernarfon.
23 June — A firedamp explosion at Albion Colliery, Cilfynydd, Glamorgan, results in the death of 290 coal miners and 123 horses underground, making it the worst disaster in Welsh mining history to date (it will be exceeded only by that at Senghenydd in 1913).^[1]^[2]
August
- The Prince of Wales attends the National Eisteddfod.
- Owen Morgan Edwards makes his first report on county schools in Wales
Opening of South Dock, Newport.
T. E. Ellis becomes Chief Whip of the Liberal Party.
In the "Welsh Revolt", MPs Herbert Lewis, David Alfred Thomas, David Lloyd George and Frank Edwards resign the Liberal whip.
Dissolution of the North Wales Scholarship Association.
Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen opens - one of the first Welsh medium schools.
John Philipps, later 1st Viscount St Davids, resigns as MP for Mid Lanarkshire.

Cricket
- 22 June / 23 June — Glamorgan play against the touring South Africans. The Glamorgan team contains three Wales rugby internationals, Billy Bancroft, Selwyn Biggs and Ralph Sweet-Escott.
- William Brain, plays his first match for Glamorgan.
Football
- The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the fifth time in its 15-year history.
- The North Wales Coast League is established.
Rugby union
- 1 January — Gwyn Nicholls plays his first match for Cardiff.
- Abercrave RFC, Llanhilleth RFC and Ynysddu RFC are founded.

14 March — Ben Beynon, Welsh rugby union international and Swansea Town player (died 1969)
21 March — William Hubert Vaughan, public servant (died 1959)
16 May — Sir Leonard Twiston Davies, patron of the arts (died 1953)
23 June — Prince Edward (later Prince of Wales, Edward VIII then Duke of Windsor; died 1972)
4 July — Ambrose Bebb, author and politician (died 1955)
10 July — Emrys Hughes, politician (died 1969)
31 July — Fred Keenor, footballer (died 1972)
23 August — Gareth Hughes, actor (died 1965)
27 August — Ike Fowler, dual-code international rugby union player (died 1981)
22 October — Llew Edwards, featherweight boxer (died 1965)
30 October — Peter Warlock, composer (died 1930)