1902 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 to Wales and its people.
Contents
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales, son of Edward VII
- Princess of Wales - Mary of Teck
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Hwfa Môn
Events
- 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.
- 31 July - Opening of first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles.
- August - Opening of Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic (it opens to passengers on 22 December).
- 11 November - Five miners are killed in an accident at Deep Navigation Colliery, Mountain Ash.
- 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.
- Isambard Owen is knighted.
Arts and literature
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Bangor
- Chair - T. Gwynn Jones
- Crown - Silyn Roberts
New books
English language
- Rhoda Broughton - Lavinia
- Arthur Machen - Hieroglyphics
- Allen Raine - A Welsh Witch
Welsh language
- Hugh Brython Hughes - Tlysau Ynys Prydain
- Thomas Rowland Roberts - Y Monwyson
Music
- Sir Henry Walford Davies - Three Jovial Huntsmen
Sport
- Gymnastics - The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed.
- Rugby union - Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.
Births
- 4 February - Tal Harris, Wales international rugby player (died 1963)
- 25 February - Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician (died 1993)
- 4 March - David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973)
- 19 March - Dilys Cadwaladr, poet (died 1979)
- 22 April - Megan Lloyd George, politician (died 1966)
- 18 June - Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963)
- 17 July - Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU (died 1984)
- 2 September - Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist (died 1979)
- 21 September - E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist of Welsh descent (died 1972)
- 27 October (in Oxford) - Harold Arthur Harris, academic (died 1974)
- 26 November (in Bristol) - Cyril Bence, academic and politician (died 1992)
- date unknown - Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981)
Deaths
- 1 January - William McConnel, industrialist, 93
- 11 January - James James, harpist and composer, 68
- 6 March - William Rathbone, politician, 82
- 11 March - Alcwyn Evans, historian, 73
- 13 July - Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist (Wattstown)[1]
- 14 July - Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player, 37
- 5 October - Henry Lascelles Carr, journalist
- 17 November - Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55
- date unknown - Jeremiah Jones, poet
