1891 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1891 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1891 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

5 April – The United Kingdom Census (the first to record what languages are spoken in Wales by everyone over the age of three) shows there to be 1,685,614 speakers of Welsh in Wales, 54.4% of the population.
12 July – Adelina Patti opens her private theatre at Craig-y-Nos Castle.
The South Wales and Monmouthshire Training School of Cookery and the Domestic Arts opens in Cardiff.
Owen Morgan Edwards launches his popular monthly magazine Cymru.

4 January — Bryn Lewis, Wales international rugby player (killed in action 1917)
13 February — Kate Roberts, author (died 1985)
14 February — Gwynn Parry Jones, tenor (died 1963)
14 March — Billy Geen, Wales international rugby union player (killed in action 1915)
29 March — Tom Parker, Wales international rugby union captain (died 1967)
8 April — Bill Beynon, British bantamweight boxing champion (died 1932)
9 May — Fred Perrett, Wales international rugby union (died of wounds 1918)
1 October — Morfydd Llwyn Owen, composer, pianist and mezzo-soprano (died 1918)
29 November — Glyn Stephens, Wales international rugby union captain (died 1965)

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