1901 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1901 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

January – Samuel Thomas Evans becomes the last QC appointed by Queen Victoria.
22 January – Albert Edward, Prince of Wales accedes to the throne as King Edward VII of the United Kingdom, following the death of Queen Victoria.
31 March – The 10-yearly Census of England and Wales is taken. The population of Wales is shown to have topped two million for the first time in history. Over 15% of the population speak Welsh as their sole language.
3 April – Frederick Rutherfoord Harris, MP for Monmouth Boroughs, is unseated for alleged electoral malpractice.
17 April – Mawddwy Railway passenger services are suspended "pending repairs"; goods services are also suspended between May and October.
7 May – In the by-election at Monmouth Boroughs, Joseph Lawrence becomes the new Conservative MP.
24 May – 81 miners are killed in an accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd.
10 September – Twelve miners are killed in a mining accident at Llanbradach Colliery in Glamorgan.
9 November
*Prince George, Duke of Cornwall and York and his wife Mary of Teck officially become Prince and Princess of Wales.
*Shipping magnate Alfred Lewis Jones is awarded a knighthood.
December – The Rhymney Railway opens Caerphilly railway works.
Gomer Berry and William Ewart Berry co-found Advertising World.
Samuel Walker Griffith helps draft the Australian constitution.
Construction of Port Talbot Steelworks begins.
Construction of the 156-room Grand Hotel at Llandudno, the largest in Wales at the time.

4 January – Lonza Bowdler, Wales international rugby player
18 February – Will Owen, politician
27 February – Iorwerth Peate, social anthropologist, poet and author, founder of the Welsh Folk Museum
4 March – Edward Prosser Rhys, journalist and poet
1 April – Tom Jones, cricketer
18 April – Mel Rosser, dual-code international rugby player
22 May – David Morgan Jenkins, rugby player
11 June – Jack Livesey, actor
22 June – Naunton Wayne, actor
3 September – Alexander Tudor-Hart, doctor and political activist
10 September – Rowe Harding, Wales and British Lions rugby player
9 November – Rhys Davies, writer
10 December – Ivor Jones, rugby player
24 December – Hilary Marquand, economist and MP
date unknown – Ivor R. Davies, Welsh-descended organist and composer