1904 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1904 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Events

January - Opening of Llanelli North Dock.
5 January - Opening of Tanat Valley Light Railway between Llynclys and Llangynog.
February - Beginning of the 1904–1905 Welsh revival in religion.
4 May - Charles Rolls and Henry Royce meet for the first time in Manchester to agree production of Rolls-Royce motor cars.
31 May - Wentwood Reservoir inaugurated for Newport Corporation.
26 May - Harvey du Cros junior makes the first successful ascent of Snowdon by automobile.
11 June - Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, is declared bankrupt; from 29 July sales of his assets at Plas Newydd (Anglesey) begin.
21 July - Edward VII and Queen Alexandra open the Elan Valley Reservoirs.
3 August - The first Royal Welsh Show is held at Aberystwyth.
September - The second Pan-Celtic Congress is held at Caernarfon.
28–29 September - A conference at Blaenannerch reinforces the strength of the religious revival.
October - Evan Roberts begins preaching.
c. October - Mrs H. Millicent McKenzie is appointed Associated Professor of Education at the University College of South Wales and Monmouthshire in Cardiff, the first woman in Britain to hold a professorial title.
3 October - Five people are killed in a railway accident near Loughor.
31 October - Rhondda Tramways Company begins operation.
November - Joseph Jenkins, instigator of the religious revival, is guest preacher at meetings in Bethany, Ammanford, and "converts" incumbent minister Nantlais Williams.
In local authority elections, the Liberal Party win control of all county councils in Wales.
Orthopaedic surgeon Robert Jones becomes Honorary Surgeon to the Baschurch Home in Shropshire which he will develop into the world's first specialized orthopaedic hospital.
Thomas Marchant Williams is knighted in recognition of his role in founding the National Eisteddfod Society.
No. 1 blast furnace at the old Blaenavon Ironworks is shut down.

Arts and literature

February - Gwen John arrives in Paris, in the company of Dorelia McNeill.

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Rhyl
*Chair - J. Machreth Rees, "Geraint ac Enid"
*Crown - Richard Machno Humphreys

New books

English language

Joseph Bradney - A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time, vol. 1

Welsh language

Owen Dafydd - Cynhyrchion Barddonol yr Hen Felinydd Owen Dafydd Cwmaman
Daniel Jenkins and David Lewis - Cerddi Cerngoch
Eluned Morgan - Dringo'r Andes
R. Silyn Roberts - ''Trystan ac Esyllt a Chaniadau Eraill''

Music

Sir Henry Walford Davies - ''Everyman''

Sport

Rugby league - In the first international league match, played between England and Other nationalities, ex-Wales rugby international Jack Rhapps becomes the World's first dual-code rugby international.
Rugby union - Percy Bush scores 104 points for the British team on their tour of Australia and New Zealand.

Births

6 March - Hugh Williams, actor and dramatist
17 March - Daniel Granville West, Baron Granville-West, politician
12 April - David Jenkins, Wales national rugby footballer
18 May - Eynon Evans, actor and screenwriter
7 June - Tom Lewis, Wales international rugby player
8 June - Angus McBean, photographer
26 June
*Prof Seaborne Davies, law teacher and three times President of the National Eisteddfod
*Lynn Ungoed-Thomas, politician
27 June - Emrys Davies, cricketer
28 July - Ned Jenkins, Wales international rugby player
31 July - Harold Davies, Baron Davies of Leek, politician
4 August – Sir Thomas Parry, academic
8 August - Dai Parker, Wales and British Lion rugby player
22 August - Tommy Rees, Wales dual-code rugby player
12 September
*Euros Bowen, poet
*Donald Holroyde Hey, chemist
24 September - George Andrews, Wales dual-code rugby player
27 September - John Gwilym Jones, dramatist
30 September - Waldo Williams, poet
10 October – Leslie Morris, politician in Canada
15 October - Sir Julian Hodge, banker
3 November - Caradog Prichard, poet and novelist
30 November - Philip Burton, theatre director and radio producer
date unknown - Richard Vaughan, novelist

Deaths

21 April - William Williams, businessman and politician, 64
10 May - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, journalist and explorer, 63
26 June - William Ormsby-Gore, 2nd Baron Harlech, 85
12 July – Samuel M. Jones, mayor of Toledo, Ohio, USA, 57
17 July - Isaac Roberts, astronomer, 75
25 July - James Valentine, English rugby international, 37
September - Benjamin Davies, Welsh-descended Canadian politician, 91
4 October - James Lewis Thomas, architect, 78
21 November - Jimmy Michael, cyclist, 27
24 November - Lewis Jones, one of the founders of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, 68
26 December - William Henry Powell, American Civil War hero, 79
29 December - Edward Treharne, Wales international rugby player, 42