1893 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1893 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

13 February – The South Wales Daily Post is launched in Swansea.
11 April – In an underground fire at Great Western Mine, Pontypridd, 63 miners are killed.
6 June – Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway opens South Dock in Newport Docks.
6 July – The future Prince of Wales, Prince George, marries Mary of Teck; their wedding rings are made of Welsh gold.
7 August – 24 people are drowned at Aberavon when a boat carrying trippers on a Sunday school outing from Ystrad Rhondda capsizes in the bay. A survivor claimed that the inexperienced passengers had been frightened by the waves and all ran to one side of the boat.
September – An International Eisteddfod takes place in Chicago, USA, during the Chicago World's Fair.
17 November – Two boatmen involved in the Aberavon drowning disaster of 7 August are found not guilty of manslaughter by a jury at Cardiff Crown Court.

14 January – John Hawley Edwards, footballer, 42
23 January – Dr William Price, eccentric, 92
28 January – David Owen, politician in Wisconsin, 64
29 January – Griffith Edwards, poet and antiquary, 80
12 February – Thomas Eyton-Jones, surgeon, physician, magistrate, local politician and army officer, 60
27 March – John Roberts, Sr., billiards champion, 69
30 March – Richard Crawley, writer, 52
24 August – Willie Llewelyn, cricketer, 25
5 September – Morgan Lloyd, politician, 71
17 September – Edwin Cynrig Roberts, Patagonian colonist, about 55
1 October – Samuel Griffith, Pennsylvania politician, 77
23 December – Sir George Elliot, 1st Baronet, MP and founder of the Elliot Home for Seamen in Newport 79