1890s in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the decade 1890–1899 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- Events of 1890
- Events of 1891
- Events of 1892
- Events of 1893
- Events of 1894
- Events of 1895
- Events of 1896
- Events of 1897
- Events of 1898
- Events of 1899
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales- 1890 – Bangor
- *Chair – Thomas Tudno Jones
- *Crown – John John Roberts
- 1891 – Swansea
- *Chair – John Owen Williams
- *Crown – David Adams
- 1892 – Rhyl
- *Chair – Evan Jones
- *Crown – John John Roberts
- 1893 – Pontypridd
- *Chair – John Ceulanydd Williams
- *Crown – Ben Davies
- 1894 – Caernarfon
- *Chair – Howell Elvet Lewis
- *Crown – Ben Davies
- 1895 – Llanelli
- *Chair – John Owen Williams
- *Crown – Lewis William Lewis
- 1896 – Llandudno
- *Chair – Ben Davies
- *Crown – withheld
- 1897 – Newport
- *Chair – John Thomas Job
- *Crown – Thomas Mafonwy Davies
- 1898 – Blaenau Ffestiniog
- *Chair – Robert Owen Hughes
- *Crown – Richard Roberts
- 1899 – Cardiff
- *Chair – withheld
- *Crown – Richard Roberts
New books
- Anne Beale – Old Gwen
- Rhoda Broughton
- *Alas!
- *Mrs Bligh
- *Foes in Law
- Caniadau Cymru
- Amy Dillwyn – Maggie Steele's Diary
- Owen Morgan Edwards – Cymru
- Beriah Gwynfe Evans – Dafydd Dafis
- John Gruffydd Moelwyn Hughes – Caniadau Moelwyn
- Arthur Machen – The Three Impostors
- Daniel Owen – ''Enoc Huws''
Film
- 1896 – The first news film ever shot in Britain shows the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting an exhibition in Cardiff. This was also the first ever motion picture of the prince.
Music
- Sir Henry Walford Davies – Symphony in D
- Joseph Parry – ''Saul of Tarsus''
Sport
- Horse racing – The Welsh Grand National is run for the first time, at Ely, Cardiff.
Births
- 1890
- *21 June – W. J. A. Davies, rugby player
- *16 December – P. J. Grigg, politician
- 1891
- *13 February – Kate Roberts, author
- 1893
- *15 January – Ivor Novello, composer and actor
- *date unknown – Lewis Valentine, political activist
- 1894
- *23 June – Prince Edward
- *date unknown – Ambrose Bebb, author and politician
- 1895
- *22 January – Iorwerth Thomas, politician
- *1 March – William Richard Williams, civil servant
- *date unknown – Albert Evans-Jones, poet and Archdruid
- 1896
- *1 May – Hubert William Lewis, VC recipient
- 1897
- *15 November – Aneurin Bevan, politician
- 1898
- *10 February – Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor, politician
- *29 July – Dorothy Rees, politician
- *24 September – Henry Arthur Evans, politician
- *date unknown – William John Edwards, cerdd dant singer
- 1899
- *17 May – H. H. Price, philosopher
- *20 December – Martyn Lloyd-Jones, preacher
- *date unknown – Len Davies, footballer
Deaths
- 1890
- *17 January – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, landowner
- *20 January – Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician and patron of Patagonian Welsh colony
- *19 March – Edmund Swetenham, MP for Caernarfon
- *29 June – Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon
- *20 July – David Davies "Llandinam", industrialist
- 1891
- *26 September – David Charles Davies, Nonconformist leader
- *date unknown
- *Sir Love Jones-Parry, politician
- *Hugh Owen Thomas, pioneering orthopaedic surgeon
- 1893
- *23 January – Dr William Price, eccentric
- 1894
- *24 February – John Roberts, politician
- 1895
- *15 January – Lady Charlotte Guest, translator of the Mabinogion
- *22 October – Daniel Owen, novelist
- 1896
- *17 January – Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover, patron of the arts
- *30 December – Evan Herber Evans, Nonconformist leader
- 1897
- *15 October – Charles John Vaughan, former Dean of Llandaff
- 1898
- *17 June – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, artist
- *28 September – Thomas Gee, publisher
- *2 December – Michael D. Jones, Patagonian settler
- 1899
- *5 April – T. E. Ellis, politician
- *August – Owen Glynne Jones, mountaineer