1894 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1894 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 - Clwydfardd

Events

*February - The first new intermediate school in Wales opens at Caernarfon.
*June 23 - An accident at Albion Colliery, Cilfynydd, results in the deaths of 290 men, making it the second-worst disaster in Welsh mining history.
*August
**The Prince of Wales attends the National Eisteddfod.
**Owen Morgan Edwards makes his first report on county schools in Wales [http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/InterSchools.html]
*Opening of South Dock, Newport.
*Completion of the first masonry dam in the UK, on the River Vyrnwy.
*T. E. Ellis becomes Chief Whip of the Liberal Party.
*In the "Welsh Revolt", MPs Herbert Lewis, David Alfred Thomas, David Lloyd George and Frank Edwards resign the Liberal whip.
*Dissolution of the North Wales Scholarship Association.

Arts and literature

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Caernarfon
*Chair - Howell Elvet Lewis
*Crown - Ben Davies

New books

*Evan Thomas Davies (Dyfrig) - "Pregethau ac Anerchiadau"
*Owen Morgan Edwards - "Ystraeon o Hanes Cymru"
*Daniel Owen - "Enoc Huws"
*Sir John Rhys - "Outlines of the Phonology of the Manx Gaelic"

Music

*Sir Henry Walford Davies - "Symphony in D"

port

*Cricket - William Brain, plays his first match for Glamorgan.
*Football - The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the fifth time in its 15-year history.
*Rugby union
**January 1 - Gwyn Nicholls plays his first match for Cardiff.

Births

*March 14 - Ben Beynon, Welsh rugby union international and Swansea Town player (died 1969)
*March 21 - William Hubert Vaughan, public servant (died 1959)
*May 16 - Sir Leonard Twiston Davies, patron of the arts (died 1953)
*June 23 - Edward, future Prince of Wales (died 1972)
*July 4 - Ambrose Bebb, author and politician (died 1955)
*July 10 - Emrys Hughes, politician (died 1969)
*July 31 - Fred Keenor, footballer (died 1972)
*August 23 - Gareth Hughes, actor (died 1965)

Deaths

*February 24 - John Roberts, politician, 58
*March 8 - John Bickerton Morgan, geologist, 34
*November 28 - Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea, 73
*December 25 - Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, 75