1890 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1890 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – The Prince Albert Edward, son of Queen Victoria
- Princess of Wales – Alexandra of Denmark
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Clwydfardd
Events
- 6 February - In an accident at Llanerch Colliery, Pontypool, 176 miners are killed.
- 10 March - In an accident at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 86 miners are killed.
- 7 April - An Easter Monday conference at Llangefni leads to agreement with employers on a shorter working day for male agricultural labourers.
- 13 April - At a by-election in Caernarfon, David Lloyd George wins the seat for the Liberals from the Conservatives, defeating H. J. E. Nanney, the local squire; Lloyd George remains the constituency MP until his death in 1945.
- 22 May - Y Cymro is launched by Isaac Foulkes (Llyfrbryf) in Liverpool as a liberal weekly Welsh language "national newspaper for Welshmen at home and abroad"; it is published until 1909.
- Summer - Queen Elisabeth of Romania visits Llandudno, staying for five weeks and later remembering it as "a beautiful haven of peace"; the phrase is later translated into Welsh and used as the town's motto.
- 21 December - Beginning of a 3-week period of severe winter weather causing deaths and disruption to daily life in many parts of Wales.
- Opening of the Rock Mill watermill for woollen milling at Capel Dewi, Llandysul.
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales - held at Bangor
- Chair - Thomas Tudno Jones
- Crown - John John Roberts
New books
- Anne Beale - Old Gwen
- Rhoda Broughton - Alas!
- Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan (in the magazine The Whirlwind)
Music
Sport
- Cricket - The England ladies' team plays an exhibition match at Newport.
- Football - The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the third time.
- Hockey - The Welsh Hockey Association is founded.
- Rugby union - Wales win their very first international against England. The only try was scored by Cardiff's 'Buller' Stadden.
Births
- 2 January - Madoline Thomas, actress (died 1989)
- 21 January - Jack Anthony, jockey (died 1954)
- 14 February - Nina Hamnett, artist and Bohemian (died 1956)
- 1 March - Jack Beames, rugby player (died 1970)
- 16 February - Thomas Ifor Rees, diplomat (died 1977)
- 20 April - Ernest Roberts, politician (died 1969)
- 5 May - George Littlewood Hirst, Wales international rugby player (died 1967)
- 14 June - Dai Hiddlestone, Wales international rugby player (died 1973)
- 21 June - W. J. A. Davies, rugby player (died 1967)
- 28 July - Horace Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1916)
- 30 August - Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, novelist (died 1977)
- 13 September - Johnny Basham, boxer (died 1947)
- 19 September - Jim Griffiths, politician, first Secretary of State for Wales (died 1975)
- 22 November - (in Lancashire) Harry Pollitt, Communist trade union leader and parliamentary candidate for Rhondda East (died 1960)
- 16 December - P. J. Grigg, politician (died 1964)
Deaths
- 17 January - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, landowner, 86
- 20 January - Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician and patron of Patagonian Welsh colony, 68
- 19 March - Edmund Swetenham, MP for Caernarfon, 67
- 21 March - Benjamin Thomas Williams, politician, 57
- 29 June - Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, 589
- 12 July - David Pugh, politician, 84
- 20 July - David Davies "Llandinam", industrialist, 71
- 6 August - Thomas Babington Jones, cricketer, 39
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