1896 in Wales

1896 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1896 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Edward Albert, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - Alexandra of Denmark
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Hwfa Môn

Events

*January 28 - In an accident at Tylorstown Colliery, Rhondda, 57 miners are killed.
*June - The Prince and Princess of Wales visit Aberystwyth, where the prince is installed as chancellor of the University of Wales and the princess opens the new pier pavilion.
*September 24 - William Frost flies his Frost Airship Glider for the first and only time.
*Creation of the Roman Catholic diocese of Cardiff.
*Opening of Shotton steelworks.
*Opening of the Snowdon Mountain Railway.
*Opening of the first indoor swimming pool in Wales, at Cardiff.
*Bangor pier built and opened by George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn
*Opening of the Pierhead Building by the Bute Dock Company (now an information centre for the Welsh Assembly).

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Llandudno
*Chair - Ben Davies
*Crown - "withheld"

New books

*Owen Morgan Edwards - "Cartrefi Cymru"
*Bertrand Russell - "German Social Democracy"

Music

*Nicholas Bennett - "Alawon fy Ngwlad"
*David Jenkins - "Four Welsh Airs"

Film

*The first news film ever shot in Britain shows the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting an exhibition in Cardiff. This was also the first ever motion picture of the prince.

port

*Football - The Welsh Cup is won by Bangor for the second time in its 17-year history.

Births

*January 18 - Walter James, 4th Baron Northbourne, agriculturist (died 1982)
*May 1 - Hubert William Lewis, VC recipient (died 1977)
*August 13 - Walter Price, footballer
*September 11 - John Morris, Baron Morris of Borth-y-Gest, judge (died 1979)
*September 15 - Owen Temple-Morris, politician (died 1985)

Deaths

*January 17 - Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover, patron of the arts (born 1802)
*December 30 - Evan Herber Evans, Nonconformist leader (born 1836)


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