1898 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1898 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

22 January — Newspaper Llais Llafur is launched in Ystalyfera, and will continue to be published until 1971.
1 April-1 September — Welsh coal strike fails to remove the sliding scale, linking wages to the price of coal.
28 March-15 August — Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway runs regular market day passenger services.
10 May — Mumbles Pier is opened and the Swansea and Mumbles Railway is extended to it.
2 August — The Llandudno Motor Touring Co begins running excursions with the first motor buses in Wales at Llandudno.
24 October — The South Wales Miners' Federation is founded.
6 December — The Abercynon to Merthyr Tydfil stretch of the Glamorganshire Canal is closed because of subsidence.
date unknown
*Peak year of slate production in Wales.
*Opening of new docks at Barry and Port Talbot.
*Opening of Lluest-wen Reservoir.
*The last stained glass window to be designed by Edward Burne-Jones is installed at St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, by Morris & Co.

Football — The Welsh Cup is won by the "Druids" for the sixth time in its 20-year history
Rugby union
*Senghenydd RFC and Ynysybwl RFC are founded.
*February — The Welsh Rugby Union is readmitted into the International Football Rugby Board after the events of The Gould Affair and Wales can again play international rugby.
*19 March — Wales defeat Ireland 11–3 in a game played at Thomond Park, Limerick

29 March – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor, politician, 80
25 May – Theophilus Harris Davies, sugar magnate, 64
17 June – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, artist, 64
17 July – Arthur Guest, politician, 56
11 August – Owen Humphrey Davies, composer, 59
6 September – Robert Jones, VC recipient, 41
26 September – Joseph Jenkins, farmer and diarist, 80
28 September – Thomas Gee, publisher, 83
29 October – David Stephen Davies, preacher and colonial leader
31 October – William Gilbert Rees, surveyor and explorer, New Zealand settler, 71
2 December – Michael D. Jones, Tad y Wladfa, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, 76
17 December – William Norton, Wales international rugby player, 36
date unknown – John Jones, astronomer, about 80