1904 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1904 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - George, Prince of Wales, son of King Edward VII of the United Kingdom
*Princess of Wales - Mary of Teck
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Hwfa Môn

Events

*January - Opening of Llanelli North Dock.
*5 January - Opening of Tanat Valley Light Railway between Lynclys and Llangynog.
*February - Beginning of the 1904-1905 Welsh Revival.
*4 May - Frederick Henry Royce meets Charles Stewart Rolls to discuss the Rolls-Royce agreement.
*21 July - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom and Queen Alexandra open the Elan Valley Reservoirs.
*3 August - The first Royal Welsh Show is held in Aberystwyth.
*28–29 September - A conference at Blaenannerch reinforces the strength of the religious revival.
*October - Evan Roberts begins preaching.
*3 October - Five people are killed in a railway accident near Loughor.
*November - Joseph Jenkins, instigator of the religious revival, is guest preacher at meetings in Bethany, Ammanford, and "converts" incumbent minister Nantlais Williams.
*Second Meeting of the Celtic Association is held at Caernarfon.
*Orthopaedic surgeon Robert Jones becomes Honorary Surgeon to the Baschurch Home in Shropshire, which he was to develop into the world's first specialized orthopaedic hospital.
*Thomas Marchant Williams is knighted in recognition of his role in founding the National Eisteddfod Society.
*In local authority elections, the Liberal Party win control of all county councils in Wales.

Arts and literature

*February - Gwen John arrives in Paris, in the company of Dorelia McNeill.

Awards

*National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Rhyl
**Chair - J. Machreth Rees
**Crown - Richard Machno Humphreys

New books

*John Romilly Allen - "Celtic Art in Pagan and Christian Times"
*Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney - "History of Monmouthshire", vol. 1
*Owen Dafydd - "Cynhyrchion Barddonol yr Hen Felinydd Owen Dafydd Cwmaman" (posthumously published)
*Eluned Morgan (author) - "Dringo'r Andes"
*Silyn Roberts - "Trystan ac Esyllt a Chaniadau Eraill"

Music

*Sir Henry Walford Davies - "Everyman" (oratorio)

port

*Rugby union - Percy Frank Bush scores 104 points for the British team on their tour of Australia and New Zealand.

Births

*March - Daniel Granville West, Baron Granville-West, politician (died 1984)
*6 March - Hugh Williams, actor and dramatist (died 1969)
*8 June - Angus McBean, photographer (died 1990)
*26 June - Prof Seaborne Davies, law teacher and three times President of the National Eisteddfod (died 1984)
*27 June - Emrys Davies, cricketer (died 1975)
*29 June - Lynn Ungoed-Thomas, politician (died 1972)
*31 July - Harold Davies, Baron Davies of Leek, politician (died 1985)
*24 September - George Andrews, Wales dual-code rugby player (died 1989)
*27 September - John Gwilym Jones, dramatist (died 1988)
*30 September - Waldo Williams, poet (died 1971)
*15 October - Sir Julian Hodge, banker (died 2004)
*3 November - Caradog Prichard, poet and novelist (died 1980)
*"date unknown"
**Euros Bowen, poet (died 1988)
**Leslie Morris, politician in Canada (died 1964)
**Sir Thomas Parry, academic (died 1985)
**Richard Vaughan, novelist (died 1983)

Deaths

*10 May - Sir Henry Morton Stanley, explorer
*26 June - William Ormsby-Gore, 2nd Baron Harlech
*17 July - Isaac Roberts, astronomer
*24 November - Lewis Jones, Patagonian settler
*"date unknown" - James Lewis Thomas, architect