1913 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1913 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

19 February - Suffragette arson attack on a house being built for David Lloyd George near Walton Heath Golf Club in Surrey. Emmeline Pankhurst, in a speech in Cardiff this evening, claims to have incited this and other incidents.
5 June - The last ship built at Porthmadog, Y Gestiana, is launched; on 4 October she is wrecked on her maiden voyage, on the coast of Nova Scotia.
14 June - Three years after leaving Cardiff on her fateful voyage to the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ship Terra Nova returns to the port, commanded by Scott's former comrade Teddy Evans.
14 October - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster: 439 men are killed in a mining accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd - the worst accident in British mining history. 1913 is the peak year for coal production in Wales.
27 October - A tornado hits South Wales, killing four people.
Diplomat William Henry Hoare Vincent is knighted.
Carmarthen Farm Institute is founded - the first of its kind.
Monmouthshire Training College is founded at Caerleon, with Edward Anwyl as its first principal.
School of Mines founded at Treforest, a predecessor of the University of South Wales.

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Sir John Morris-Jones - Welsh Grammar: Historical and Comparative
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The American adaptation of [Ivanhoe (1913 United States|American film)|Ivanhoe] is filmed at Chepstow Castle.

Boxing
*2 June - Bill Beynon wins the British and Empire bantamweight championship.
Rugby Union
*18 January - Wales are defeated 12-0 by England in a game played at the National Stadium, Cardiff