1898 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1898 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1898 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch – Victoria
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales — Hwfa Môn^[1]

Events[]

• 22 January — Newspaper Llais Llafur ("Labour Voice") is launched in Ystalyfera,^[2] and will continue to be published (under various titles) until 1971.
• 1 April–1 September — Welsh coal strike fails to remove the sliding scale, linking wages to the price of coal.^[3]
• 28 March–15 August — Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway runs regular market day passenger services.^[4]
• 10 May — Mumbles Pier is opened and the Swansea and Mumbles Railway is extended to it.^[5]
• 2 August — The Llandudno Motor Touring Co begins running excursions with the first motor buses in Wales at Llandudno.^[6]
• 24 October — The South Wales Miners' Federation is founded.
• 6 December — The Abercynon to Merthyr Tydfil stretch of the Glamorganshire Canal is closed because of subsidence.^[7]
• date unknown
  • Peak year of slate production in Wales.
  • Opening of new docks at Barry and Port Talbot.^[8]
  • Opening of Lluest-wen Reservoir.
  • The last stained glass window to be designed by Edward Burne-Jones is installed at St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, by Morris & Co.^[9][10]

Arts and literature[]

Awards[]

National Eisteddfod of Wales — held at Blaenau Ffestiniog

• Chair — , "Awen"^[11]
• Crown — , "Charles o'r Bala"^[12]

New books[]

Welsh language[]

• Beriah Gwynfe Evans — Dafydd Dafis^[13]
• Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) — Aeron Awen Gwyrosydd^[14]
• John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr) — Cofiant Gladstone^[15]
• T. Gwynn Jones — Gwedi Brad a Gofid^[16]

Music[]

• none known

Sport[]

• Football — The Welsh Cup is won by the "Druids" for the sixth time in its 20-year history
• Rugby union
  • Senghenydd RFC and Ynysybwl RFC are founded.
  • February — The Welsh Rugby Union is readmitted into the International Football Rugby Board after the events of The Gould Affair and Wales can again play international rugby.
  • 19 March — Wales defeat Ireland 11–3 in a game played at Thomond Park, Limerick

Births[]

• 10 February – Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor, politician (died 1984)^[17]
• 20 April – Cliff Williams, Wales international rugby union player (died 1930)
• 29 July – Dorothy Rees, politician (died 1987)
• 29 August – Sydney Hinam, Wales international rugby union player (died 1982)
• 24 September – Henry Arthur Evans, politician (died 1958)
• 6 October – William John Edwards, Cerdd Dant singer (died 1978)
• 25 December – Islwyn Evans, Wales international rugby player (died 1974)

Deaths[]

• 29 March – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor, politician, 80^[18]
• 25 May – Theophilus Harris Davies, sugar magnate, 64^[19]
• 17 June – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, artist, 64^[20]
• 17 July – Arthur Guest, politician, 56^[21]
• 11 August – Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid), composer, 59^[22]
• 6 September – Robert Jones, VC recipient, 41 (suicide)
• 26 September – Joseph Jenkins, farmer and diarist ("The Welsh Swagman"), 80^[23]
• 28 September – Thomas Gee, publisher, 83^[24]
• 29 October – David Stephen Davies, preacher and colonial leader^[25]
• 31 October – William Gilbert Rees, surveyor and explorer, New Zealand settler, 71^[26]
• 2 December – Michael D. Jones, Tad y Wladfa, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, 76^[27]
• 17 December – William Norton, Wales international rugby player, 36
• date unknown – John Jones, astronomer, about 80^[28]

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