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9 February - Alfred Thomas is created Baron Pontypridd .[15]
1 March - A national coal miners' strike begins, led in Wales by Vernon Hartshorn and Noah Ablett , among others.[16]
15 April - Wireless operator Artie Moore of Gelligroes near Blackwood , hears a distress signal from RMS Titanic .[17]
22 April - Denys Corbett Wilson leaves Goodwick , Pembrokeshire , to make the first manned flight fully across the Irish Sea in a time of 1 hour 40 minutes.
26 April - Vivian Hewitt of Bodfari in Denbighshire makes a manned flight across the Irish Sea, from Holyhead to Dublin.[18]
28 May - A major demonstration in favour of disestablishment takes place in Swansea .
25 June - King George V and Queen Mary arrive for a 4-day visit to Cardiff onboard HMY Victoria and Albert (built Pembroke Dock 1899). On 26 June the royal couple lay the foundation stone of the National Museum Cardiff (it does not open to the public until 1927).[19]
27 June - King George V and Queen Mary travel by train via Pontypridd for a controversial visit to Merthyr Tydfil .[20]
1 August - Chemist Humphrey Owen Jones marries a colleague, Muriel Gwendolen Edwards. A fortnight later the couple, both keen climbers, are killed in a fall while on their honeymoon in the Alps.[21]
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 .
Dan yr Ogof caves are discovered by brothers Jeff and Tommy Morgan.[22]
Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith becomes chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary Liberal Party.
Clough Williams-Ellis receives his first major architectural commission, for the remodelling of Llangoed Hall .
First coal raised from Bedwas Navigation Colliery .
A drill hall is built in the Pen-dre area of Tywyn for the Territorial Army (the 7th Battalion the Royal Welsh Fusiliers ). The hall, subsequently known as Neuadd Pendre, is renovated 100 years after its construction with grants from various sources[23] and houses a 3-manual 9-rank Wurlitzer Organ originally installed in a cinema in Woolwich .[24]
The Welsh colony in Chubut launches its own newspaper.
New books
English language
Stanley Bligh - The Art of Conversation
Rhoda Broughton - Between Two Stools
A. G. Edwards - Landmarks in the History of the Welsh Church [26]
Miners' Unofficial Reform Committee - The Miners' Next Step [27]
T. M. Rees - Welsh Painters
Bertha Thomas - Stranger Within The Gates (collection of short stories)
The Belle of Bettws-y-Coed [33]
The Pedlar of Penmaenmawr [34]
The Smuggler's Daughter of Anglesea [34]
The Witch of the Welsh Mountains [34]
17 January - J. E. Caerwyn Williams , academic (died 1999 )[36]
27 February - Joe Thomas , communist activist (died 1990 )
5 March - Enoch Mort , footballer (died 1999)
17 March - Brenda Chamberlain , artist and poet (died 1971 )[37]
27 March - James Callaghan , English Labour politician, Prime Minister of the U.K., M.P. for Cardiff (died 2005 )[38]
29 April - Elvet Jones , Wales and British Lions rugby international (died 1989)
9 May - Evan Williams , jockey (died 2001 )[39]
29 May - David Jenkins , librarian of National Library of Wales (died 2002 )[40]
30 May - Hugh Griffith , actor (died 1980 )[41]
8 June - Billy Bassett , footballer (died 1977)
16 June - Enoch Powell , English Conservative politician, Welsh scholar (died 1998)
29 June - Valerie Davies , swimmer (died 2001)
17 July - John Williams , clergyman (died 2002 )[42]
1 September - Gwynfor Evans , Plaid Cymru politician (died 2005 )[43]
1 September - Eileen Rees , nurse (died 2008 )[44]
20 October - William R. P. George , solicitor and poet (died 2006 )[45]
15 November - Arthur Granville , footballer (died 1987)
20 November
Arthur Rees , Wales rugby international and police Chief Constable (died 1998 )[46]
Wilf Wooller , Wales rugby international and Glamorgan cricket captain (died 1997)
12 December - Daniel Jones , composer (died 1993 )[47]
13 December - Garfield Hopkin Hughes , academic (died 1969)
20 December - Sir Morien Morgan , aeronautics engineer (died 1978)
memorial to Edgar Evans, Rhossili
25 January – Augusta Mostyn , artist and philanthropist, 81[48]
29 January – Dai Evans , Wales international rugby player[49]
17 February – Edgar Evans , explorer, 35[50]
6 April – Eleazar Roberts , writer and musician, 87
15 April – David John Bowen , boxer, 20 (sinking of the Titanic )
18 April – Walter Clopton Wingfield , lawn tennis inventor, 78 [51]
18 May – Richard Grosvenor , MP for Flintshire 1861–1886, 75[52]
23 July – Abel Thomas , lawyer and politician, 63/64[53]
25 July – Griffith John , missionary, 80
31 July – Ellis Pierce , writer and bookseller, 71[54]
15 August - Humphrey Owen Jones , chemist, 34 (climbing accident)[21]
29 August (in Haslemere ) - James Cholmeley Russell , railway entrepreneur, 71
21 September – William T. Davies , Welsh-born Lieutenant Governor of Pennsylvania, 80[55]
24 September – John Rolls, 1st Baron Llangattock , politician, 75[56]
30 October – Walter W. Thomas , architect, 63
18 November – Edward Thomas (Cochfarf) , local politician, 59[57]
4 December – Phoebe Davies , actress, 48[58]
Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes . Dod. 1921. p. 356.
National Museum of Wales (1935). Adroddiad Blynyddol . The Museum. p. 3.
The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland . Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1860. p. 443.
The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion . The Society. 1986. p. 63.
Potter, Matthew (2016). The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present . Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 149. ISBN 9781351545471 .
Cyril James Oswald Evans (1953). Monmouthshire, Its History and Topography . W. Lewis (printers). p. 190.
Joseph Whitaker, ed. (1913). Whitaker's Almanack . Whitaker's Almanack. p. 847.
Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage . Burke's Peerage Limited. 1925. p. 2437.
Gallimore, Andrew (2006). Occupation: Prizefighter: The Freddie Welsh Story . Bridgend, Wales: Seren. p. 167. ISBN 978-1-85411-395-5 .
Jill Piercy, Brenda Chamberlain: Artist and Writer (Parthian Books 2013). ISBN 9781906998233
"Williams, Ven. John Charles", Who Was Who , A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 20 Sept 2013
Patrick Hannan (22 April 2005). "Gwynfor Evans" . The Guardian . Retrieved 26 September 2019 .
Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999. volume 1, page 19
"Lord Stalbridge". Obituaries. The Times (39903). London. 20 May 1912. col B, p. 10.
Nottingham Evening Post , 23 July 1912: Death of Mr Able Thomas
Annual . Bradford County Historical Society (Bradford County, Pa.). 1913. p. 82.
"Phoebe Davies Dies". New York Times . 5 December 1912. p. 11.