1902 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

4 March – Five miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfaen Colliery, Blaenavon.
1 May – Cardiff Corporation Tramways begins operating its electric system.
3 June – Six miners are killed in an accident at Gerwen Colliery, Llanelli.
26 June – In the 1902 Coronation Honours, Isambard Owen and Alfred Thomas receive knighthoods.
15 July – Francis Grenfell is created 1st Baron Grenfell of Kilvey in the County of Glamorgan.
31 July – Opening of the first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles.
2 August – A. G. Edwards, Bishop of St Davids, is appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Denbighshire Yeomanry.
August – Opening of the Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic.
11 November – Five miners are killed in an accident at Deep Navigation Colliery, Mountain Ash.
date unknown
*Alfred Mond founds his nickel works at Clydach in the Swansea Valley.
*230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada.
*Opening of Caernarfon electric power station.

1 January – William McConnel, industrialist, 93
11 January – James James, harpist and composer, 69
19 February – Jeremiah Jones, poet, 46
6 March – William Rathbone, politician, 82
11 March – Alcwyn Evans, historian, 73
6 April – Robert Owen, theologian, 81
5 June – Arthur Powell Davies, English-born American minister, author, and activist of Welsh parentage
13 July – Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist
14 July – Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player, 37
23 August – Robert Henry Davies, colonial official in British India, 78
5 October – Henry Lascelles Carr, journalist
18 October – Margaret Jones, travel writer, 60
17 November – Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55
December – Thomas Davies, footballer, 36/37
date unknown – Jones Hewson, singer and actor, 27