1910 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1910 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Events

15 January–10 February - The first 1910 United Kingdom general election produces a hung parliament. This is the first election in which all Welsh constituencies have been contested. Of a total of 34 MPs elected in Wales, five are Labour and two Conservative. The 27 Liberal MPs include David Alfred Thomas for Cardiff. Conservatives include William Ormsby-Gore, later Baron Harlech. Unsuccessful candidates include Vernon Hartshorn and Sir George Fossett Roberts. J.H. "Jimmy" Thomas becomes MP for Derby.
6 May - George, Prince of Wales, becomes King George V of the United Kingdom, upon the death of his father King Edward VII.
2 June - Charles Rolls makes the first non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by air, flying from England to France and back again in just over nine hours.
13 June - Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his officers enjoy a farewell dinner at the Royal Hotel in St Mary's Street, Cardiff, before beginning their attempt to be the first men to reach the South Pole.
15 June - Captain Robert Falcon Scott sets off on his fatal voyage to Antarctica on the ship Terra Nova, sailing from Cardiff.
23 June - Edward, eldest son of George V and Queen Mary, is officially created Prince of Wales, aged 16.
12 July - At the Bournemouth International Aviation Meeting, Charles Rolls becomes the first Briton to be killed in an air crash.
1 September
* A lockout begins at Ely Pit in Penygraig, starting a chain of events leading to the Tonypandy riots.
* Ninian Park football stadium is opened in Cardiff to serve Cardiff City F.C.
11 September - English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine makes an aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea, landing some 200 feet short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay.
30 September - The King Edward VII National Memorial Association begins its campaign to eradicate tuberculosis in Wales.
13 October - Three crew members from the St David's life-boat drown in Ramsey Sound near Ramsey Island.
1 November - Coal miners are balloted for strike action by the South Wales Miners' Federation, resulting in 12,000 men working for the Cambrian Combine beginning a 10-month strike.
4 November - Ernest Thompson Willows makes the first flight from England to France in his dirigible, City of Cardiff, having earlier in the year made the first flight across the Bristol Channel by airship, from Cardiff to Minehead.
8 November - Tonypandy riots: Striking coal miners battle with police and damage shops in Tonypandy.
9 November - Soldiers and police battle with striking coal miners at Porth in the Rhondda, with over 500 injuries.
3–19 December - The second 1910 United Kingdom general election results in a Liberal government. Wales elects 26 Liberal, five Labour, and three Conservative MPs. Edward Crichton-Stuart takes Cardiff for the Conservatives and John Hugh Edwards becomes Liberal MP for Mid Glamorgan.
18 December - A storm causes substantial damage to the promenade at Aberystwyth.
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*Reconstruction of an abbey on Caldey Island is begun by Anglican Benedictines.
*Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company begins sinking Britannia Colliery, Pengam, Monmoutshire, the UK's first to be sunk and worked by electricity.
*Harry Grindell-Matthews invents the “aerophone”.
*The Royal Commission on the Church of England and Other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire, appointed in 1906, presents its report.
*The first Girl Guides company in Wales is formed at Carmarthen.
*Ellis Ellis-Griffith becomes a King's Counsel.
*The Davies Bryan Company opens a large drapery store in Cairo, designed by Robert Williams.
*Aneurin Bevan leaves school, aged thirteen.

Arts and literature

Arthur Machen joins the staff of the Evening News (London).

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Colwyn Bay
*Chair - R. Williams Parry, "Yr Haf"
*Crown - William Crwys Williams

New books

English language

Sabine Baring-Gould - Lives of the British Saints
Stanley Bligh - The Direction of Desire
John Gwenogvryn Evans - Facsimile and Text of the Book of Taliesin
Bertrand Russell - ''Philosophical Essays''

Welsh language

Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney - Llyfr Baglan
David Richard Jones - ''Yr Ymchwil am y Goleuni''

Music

Thomas Carrington - Hen weddi deuluaidd fy nhad
Robert Donnely and Will Geddes - "Dream of a Miner's Child"
J. Lloyd Williams - ''Aelwyd Angharad''

Sport

Boxing
*The Welsh Amateur Boxing Association is formed.
*20 December - Freddie Welsh beats Jim Driscoll in a controversial fight for the EBU Lightweight title; Driscoll is disqualified for butting.
Golf
*Abergele Golf Club first formed.
Rugby league
*Treherbert RLFC fold after only their second season.
*The second and final Welsh League competition is won by Ebbw Vale.
Rugby union
*5 February - Wales beat Scotland 14–0 at the National Stadium, Cardiff.

Births

26 January – Frank Williams, Wales international rugby player
9 March – Sir Rhys Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, mining executive
11 March – Don Tarr, Wales international rugby player
5 April – John St. Bodfan Gruffydd, landscape architect
13 April – Michael Brain, cricketer
21 April - Len Attley, Welsh footballer
13 May – Gomer Hughes, dual-code rugby player
21 May – Hywel Lewis, theologian and philosopher
9 June – Ifor Davies, politician
16 June – Annie "Nan" Davies, radio and television producer
18 June – John Menlove Edwards, climber
16 July – Käte Bosse-Griffiths, writer
25 July – Idwal Rees, Wales rugby union captain
2 September – Norman Fender, Wales dual-code rugby international
9 September – Pat Glover, footballer
22 September – Emrys Roberts, politician
11 October – Idris Hopkins, footballer
20 October – Eryl Stephen Thomas, bishop
14 November – Errie Ball, Welsh-American golfer
24 November – Walter Robbins, international footballer
14 December – Sir Cennydd Traherne, landowner
31 December – Tommy Weale, footballer

Deaths

27 January - John Cory, philanthropist, coal-owner and shipping magnate, 81
1 March - David Evans, Archdeacon of St Asaph
7 March - Bob Thomas, Wales international rugby player
8 March - David Gwynn, Wales international rugby player, 48
21 March - Sir Edmund Buckley, 1st Baronet, landowner, 75
25 April - Ann Harriet Hughes, novelist, 57/8
6 May - Edward VII, Prince of Wales 1841–1901, 68
10 May - Anna Laetitia Waring, poet and hymn-writer, 87
12 July - Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator and co-founder of Rolls-Royce, 32
26 July - Henry Williams politician in Australia, about 68
24 November - Thomas Lloyd Williams, Welsh-American writer, 79
15 December - John Hugh Jones, Roman Catholic priest, translator and tutor, 67