1910 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1910 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1910 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – George (until 6 May); Edward (from 23 June)
• Princess of Wales – Mary (until 6 May)
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed

Events

• 15 January – 10 February - The United Kingdom general election produces a hung parliament. This is the first election in which all Welsh constituencies have been contested. Of a total of 34 MPs elected in Wales, five are Labour and two Conservative. The 27 Liberal MPs include David Alfred Thomas for Cardiff (replacing Ivor Guest, Baron Ashby St Ledgers, who had been raised to the peerage). Conservatives include William Ormsby-Gore, later Baron Harlech. Unsuccessful candidates include Vernon Hartshorn and Sir George Fossett Roberts. J.H. "Jimmy" Thomas becomes MP for Derby.
• 6 May - George, Prince of Wales becomes King of the United Kingdom as George V.
• 2 June - Charles Rolls makes the first non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by air, flying from England to France and back again in just over nine hours.
• 13 June - Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his officers enjoy a farewell dinner at the Royal Hotel in St Mary's Street, Cardiff, before beginning their attempt to be the first men to reach the South Pole.
• 15 June - Captain Robert Falcon Scott sets off on his fatal voyage to Antarctica on the ship Terra Nova, sailing from Cardiff.
• 23 June - Edward, eldest son of George V and Queen Mary, is created Prince of Wales, aged 16.
• 12 July - At the Bournemouth International Aviation Meeting, Charles Rolls becomes the first Briton to be killed in an air crash.
• 1 September
  • A lockout begins at Ely Pit in Penygraig, starting a chain of events leading to the Tonypandy Riots.
  • Ninian Park football stadium is opened in Cardiff to serve Cardiff City F.C.^[1]
• 11 September - English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine makes an aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea, landing some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay.^[2][3]
• 12 October - Three crew members from the St David's life-boat drown in Ramsey Sound near Ramsey Island.
• 1 November - Coal miners are balloted for strike action by the South Wales Miners' Federation, resulting in 12,000 men working for the Cambrian Combine beginning a 10-month strike.^[4]
• 4 November - Ernest Thompson Willows makes the first flight from England to France in his dirigible, City of Cardiff, having earlier in the year made the first flight across the Bristol Channel by airship, from Cardiff to Minehead.
• 8 November - Tonypandy Riots: Striking coal miners battle with police and damage shops in Tonypandy.
• 9 November - Soldiers and police battle with striking coal miners at Porth in the Rhondda, with over 500 injuries.^[5]
• 3–19 December - The second United Kingdom general election of 1910 results in a Liberal government. Wales elects 26 Liberal, five Labour, and three Conservative MPs.
  • Lord Ninian Edward Crichton-Stuart takes Cardiff for the Conservatives.
  • John Hugh Edwards becomes Liberal MP for Mid Glamorgan.
• 18 December - A storm causes substantial damage to the promenade at Aberystwyth.
• date unknown
  • Reconstruction of an abbey on Caldey Island is begun by Anglican Benedictines.
  • Powell Duffryn Steam Coal Company begins sinking Britannia Colliery, Pengam, Monmoutshire, the UK's first to be sunk and worked by electricity.^[6]
  • Harry Grindell-Matthews invents the “aerophone”.
  • The Royal Commission on Religion in Wales, appointed in 1906, presents its report.
  • The King Edward VII National Memorial Association begins its campaign to eradicate tuberculosis in Wales.
  • The first Girl Guides company in Wales is formed at Carmarthen.
  • Aneurin Bevan leaves school, aged thirteen.
  • Ellis Ellis-Griffith becomes a King's Counsel.

Arts and literature

• Arthur Machen joins the staff of the Evening News (London).

Sport

• Boxing
  • The Welsh Amateur Boxing Association is formed.
  • 20 December - Freddie Welsh beats Jim Driscoll in a controversial fight for the EBU Lightweight title.
• Golf
  • Abergele Golf Club first formed.
• Rugby league
  • Treherbert RLFC fold after only their second season.
  • The second and final Welsh League competition is won by Ebbw Vale.
• Rugby union
  • 5 February Wales beat Scotland 14–0 at the National Stadium, Cardiff.

Births

• 26 January - Frank Williams, Wales international rugby player (d. 1959)
• 9 March - Sir Rhys Llewellyn, 2nd Baronet, mining executive (d. 1978)
• 11 March - Don Tarr, Wales international rugby player
• 13 April - Michael Brain, cricketer (d. 1971)
• 13 May - Gomer Hughes, dual-code rugby player (d. 1974)
• 21 May - Hywel Lewis, theologian and philosopher (d. 1992)
• 9 June - Ifor Davies, politician (d. 1982)
• 16 June
  • Käte Bosse-Griffiths, Egyptologist and writer (d. 1998)
  • Nan Davies, radio and television producer (d. 1970)
• 18 June - John Menlove Edwards, climber (d. 1958)
• 16 July - Käte Bosse-Griffiths, writer (d. 1998)
• 25 July - Idwal Rees, Wales rugby union captain (d. 1991)
• 2 September - Norman Fender, Wales dual-code rugby international (d. 1983)
• 9 September - Pat Glover, footballer (d. 1971)
• 22 September - Emrys Roberts, politician (d. 1990)
• 11 October - Idris Hopkins, footballer (d. 1994)
• 14 November - Errie Ball, Welsh-American golfer (d. 2014)
• 24 November - Walter Robbins, international footballer (d. 1979)
• 14 December - Sir Cennydd Traherne, landowner (d. 1995)
• 31 December - Tommy Weale, footballer (d. 1971)
• date unknown
  • John St. Bodfan Gruffydd, landscape architect (d. 2004)
  • Eryl Stephen Thomas, bishop (d. 2001)

Deaths

• 27 January - John Cory (born 1828)
• 7 March - Bob Thomas, Wales international rugby player
• 8 March - David Gwynn, Wales international rugby player, 48
• 25 April - Ann Harriet Hughes (Gwyneth Vaughan), novelist
• 6 May - Edward VII, Prince of Wales 1841–1901, 68
• 10 May - Anna Laetitia Waring, poet and hymn-writer, 87
• 12 July - Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator and co-founder of Rolls-Royce, 32
• 24 November - Thomas Lloyd Williams, Welsh-American writer, 79
• 15 December - John Hugh Jones, Roman Catholic priest, translator and tutor, 67

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