1899 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1899 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

25 January – Adelina Patti marries her third husband, Baron Rolf Cederström, in a Roman Catholic service at Brecon.
20 March – W. H. Davies, "tramp-poet", loses his foot trying to jump a freight train at Renfrew, Ontario.
29 March – A French barque, Le Maréchal Lannes, is wrecked off Grassholm, with the loss of its crew of 25.
April – The Duke and Duchess of York visit Gwydir Castle.
23 May – William Goscombe John's statue of "The Little Girl" at Llansannan is unveiled by Mrs Herbert Roberts.
20 July – A rabid dog attacks a group of children in Pontarddulais. In August, eight of them are sent to the Pasteur Institute in Paris to be inoculated.
18 August – Llest Colliery explosion at Pontyrhyl in Glamorganshire kills 19 coal miners.
2 September – Arthur Wade-Evans takes the surname "Wade-Evans" by deed poll.
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*Businessman Arthur Keen buys the Dowlais Iron Company from Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne.
*The George Hotel, Chepstow, is rebuilt.
*Explorer Henry Morton Stanley is knighted.
*In the United States, J. Vyrnwy Morgan, pastor of the First Baptist Church at Omaha, Nebraska, relocates to Denver, Colorado, for the sake of his wife's health.

Rhoda Broughton – Foes in Law
Allen Raine – By Berwyn Banks
William Retlaw Jefferson Williams – ''The Parliamentary History of Oxford, 1213-1899''

11 March – The Gramophone Company makes the first recording in the Welsh language, including Madge Breese singing Hen wlad fy nhadau.

Football
*The Welsh Cup is won by the "Druids" for the seventh time in its 21-year history.
*Cardiff City F.C. is founded, under the name of "Riverside Reserves".
Yachting – The River Towy Yacht Club is founded.