1889 In Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1889 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd

Events

*January – First Glamorgan County Council elections are held.
*8 February – Nine people drown in a ferry accident at Pembroke Dock.
*14 February – The first edition of the ''North Wales Weekly News'' is published (under the title ''Weekly News and Visitors’ Chronicle for Colwyn Bay, Colwyn, Llandrillo, Conway, Deganway and Neighbourhood'').
*13 March – Twenty miners are killed in an accident at the Brynmally Colliery, Wrexham.
* 1 April – New elected county councils in England and Wales created by the Local Government Act 1888, take up their powers. That for Radnorshire meets in Presteigne.
*June – A lion escapes from a travelling menagerie at Llandrindod Wells.
* 18 July – Opening of the first dock basin at Barry.
*3 August – Opening of Hawarden Bridge.
*12 August – The passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act marks the beginning of secondary education in Wales.
* 15 August – Three men are killed in a mining accident at Wenvoe Quarry, Glamorgan.''Western Mail'' - Friday 16 August 1889, p.3, Accessed via The British Newspaper Archive . Retrieved 19 November 2014.
* 26 August – Act of incorporation of the Barry Railway Company#Vale of Glamorgan Railway.
*Approximate date – The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain is co-founded in Salford as the United Kingdom Van Dwellers Protection Association by Jacob Studt and other active Welsh cinema pioneers.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Brecon
*Chair – Evan Rees, "Y Beibl Cymraeg"
*Crown – Howell Elvet Lewis

New books

*Owen Morgan Edwards – ''O'r Bala i Geneva''

Music

*Sir Henry Walford Davies – ''The Future'', for chorus and orchestra

Sport

*Cricket – Glamorgan County Cricket Club plays its first match, against Warwickshire at Cardiff Arms Park.
*Rugby union – Bedwas RFC, Blackwood RFC and Llantwit Major RFC are formed.

Births

*12 January – John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster and philanthropist (died 1922)
* 22 January – John Emlyn-Jones, politician (died 1952)
* 28 January – Phil Waller, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1917)
*31 January – Jack Evans, footballer (died 1971)
* 1 February – John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)
*10 February – Howard Spring, novelist (died 1965)
*28 February – George Jeffreys, Pentecostalist (died 1962)
*5 May – Stanley Winmill, Wales international rugby union player (died 1940)
*24 June – Harry Symonds, cricketer (died 1945)
* 17 July – Aled Owen Roberts, politician (died 1949)
* 5 August – William Davies Thomas, academic (died 1954)
* 10 August – Irene Steer, swimmer (died 1977)
*21 August – Henry Lewis, Professor at Swansea University (died 1968)
*23 October – William Havard, Bishop of St Davids and international rugby player (died 1956)
* 11 December – Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)

Deaths

*21 January – Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, 81
*27 March – John Bright, Radical politician associated with Llandudno, 77
*10 April – Kilsby Jones, nonconformist minister, writer and lecturer, 76
*27 May – George Owen Rees, Welsh-Italian doctor, 75
*8 June – Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet, 44 (in Ireland)
*17 June – John Hughes, industrialist, 73 (in St Petersburg)
* 26 June – Walter Rice Howell Powell, landowner and politician, 69
*28 September – Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player, 34
*15 October – Sir Daniel Gooch, railway engineer and politician, 73
*29 October – Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player, 36
* 14 November – James Stephens, stonemason, Chartist, and later Australian trade unionist, 68
*18 November – Charles Easton Spooner, railway pioneer, 71
*''date unknown'' – G. Phillips Bevan, statistician, geographer and author, 59/60
*''probable'' – Richard Williams Morgan, clergyman and poet

References

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