1912 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1912 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - Edward, Prince of Wales, son of King George V of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Dyfed

Events

*1 March - National miners' strike, led in Wales by Vernon Hartshorn and Noah Ablett among others.
*15 April - Wireless operator Artie Moore of Gelligroes near Blackwood, hears a distress signal from RMS Titanic.
*22 April - Denys Corbett Wilson leaves Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, to make the first manned flight across the Irish Sea in a time of 1 hour 40 minutes.
*28 May - A major demonstration in favour of disestablishment takes place in Swansea.
*17 September - Welsh immigrant workers play a major part in organizing the coal miners' strike in Vancouver Island, Canada.
*The Welsh Health Service Insurance Commission is established.
*Sir David Brynmor Jones becomes a member of the Privy Council.
*Alfred Thomas is created Baron Pontypridd.
*The foundation stone of the National Museum Cardiff is laid. (It does not open to the public until 1927.)
*Dan yr Ogof caves are discovered by brothers Jeff and Tommy Morgan.
*King George V and Queen Mary visit Merthyr Tydfil amid much controversy.
*Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith becomes chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary Liberal Party.

Arts and literature

*The Welsh colony in Chubut launches its own newspaper.

Awards

*National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Wrexham
**Chair and Crown - T. H. Parry-Williams (the first time both major prizes were won by the same person)

New books

*Stanley Bligh - "The Art of Conversation"
*Rhoda Broughton - "Between Two Stools"
*Edward Tegla Davies - "Hunangofiant Tomi"
*Alfred George Edwards - "Landmarks in the History of the Welsh Church"
*Miners' Unofficial Reform Committee - "The Miners' Next Step"
*T. M. Rees - "Welsh Painters"
*Thomas Williams (Brynfab) - "Pan Oedd Rhondda'n Bur"

Music

*Thomas Carrington - "Concwest Calfari"
*Sir Henry Walford Davies - "Song of St Francis" (cantata)
*David Vaughan Thomas - "A Song for St. Cecilia's Day"

Film

*"The Belle of Bettws-y-Coed"
*"The Smuggler's Daughter of Anglesea"
*"The Witch of the Welsh Mountains"

port

*Boxing:
**3 June - Jim Driscoll wins the European featherweight title.
**16 December - Freddie Welsh wins the Commonwealth lightweight title.
*Football - Swansea Town play their first match at the Vetch Field.

Births

*27 March - James Callaghan (died 2005)
*30 May - Hugh Griffith, actor (died 1980)
*8 June - Billy Bassett, Welsh footballer (died 1977)
*16 June - Enoch Powell, Welsh-speaking politician (died 1998)
*1 September - Gwynfor Evans, politician (died 2005)
*12 December - Daniel Jones, composer (died 1993)
*13 December - Garfield Hopkin Hughes, academic (died 1969)
*20 December - Sir Morien Morgan, aeronautics engineer (died 1978)
*"date unknown" - Brenda Chamberlain, artist and poet (died 1971)

Deaths

*17 February - Edgar Evans, explorer, 35
*6 April - Eleazar Roberts, writer and musician, 87
*18 April - Walter Clopton Wingfield, lawn tennis inventor
*25 July – Griffith John, missionary, 80
*24 September – John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock, politician, 75
*18 November - Edward Thomas (Cochfarf), local politician, 59