1910 in Wales

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1910
in
Wales

Centuries:
  • 18th
  • 19th
  • 20th
  • 21st
Decades:
  • 1890s
  • 1900s
  • 1910s
  • 1920s
  • 1930s
See also:
1910 in
The United Kingdom
Ireland
Scotland

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

Incumbents[]

Events[]

  • 15 January10 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 George V of the United Kingdom.
  • 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.[1]
  • 15 June - Captain Robert Falcon Scott sets off on his fatal voyage to Antarctica on the ship Terra Nova, sailing from Cardiff.[1]
  • 23 June - Edward, eldest son of George V and Queen Mary, is officially created Prince of Wales, aged 16.[2]
  • 12 July - At the Bournemouth International Aviation Meeting, Charles Rolls becomes the first Briton to be killed in an air crash.[3]
  • 1 September
  • 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.[6][7]
  • 30 September - The King Edward VII National Memorial Association begins its campaign to eradicate tuberculosis in Wales.
  • 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.[8]
  • 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.[4]
  • 9 November - Soldiers and police battle with striking coal miners at Porth in the Rhondda, with over 500 injuries.[9]
  • 319 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

Arts and literature[]

Awards[]

New books[]

English language[]

English language[]

  • Sir Joseph Alfred Bradney - Llyfr Baglan
  • - Yr Ymchwil am y Goleuni[14]

Music[]

  • Thomas Carrington - Hen weddi deuluaidd fy nhad
  • Robert Donnely and Will Geddes - "Dream of a Miner's Child" ("Don't go down in the mine, Dad")[15]
  • J. Lloyd Williams - Aelwyd Angharad

Sport[]

Births[]

Deaths[]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b Morgannwg: Transactions of the Glamorgan History Society. 1988. pp. 51–53.
  2. ^ "Titles and Heraldry". Prince of Wales. Retrieved 9 October 2019.
  3. ^ Philip Jarrett (2002). Pioneer Aircraft: Early Aviation to 1914. Putnam. p. 206. ISBN 978-0-85177-869-3.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Lewis, E.D. (1959). The Rhondda Valleys. London: Phoenix House. p. 175.
  5. ^ "The Foundations and Early Years (1899-1920)". Cardiff City. 18 March 2011. Archived from the original on 13 August 2009. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
  6. ^ "Loraine's Daring Flight". The Irish Times. Dublin. 12 September 1910. p. 7.
  7. ^ "Mr Loraine's Irish Channel Flight". Flight. 17 September 1910.
  8. ^ Lewis, E. D. (1959). The Rhondda Valleys. London: Phoenix House. p. 175.
  9. ^ Herbert, Trevor, ed. (1988). Wales 1880-1914: Welsh History and its sources. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. pp. 122–3. ISBN 0-7083-0967-4.
  10. ^ Roscoe Howells (1981). Tenby: Old & New. Gomer. p. 41. ISBN 978-0-85088-835-5.
  11. ^ "Britannia Colliery, Pengam". Coflein. Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  12. ^ Great Britain. Royal Commission on the Church of England and Other Religious Bodies in Wales and Monmouthshire (1910). Report of the Commission.
  13. ^ "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.[permanent dead link]
  14. ^ Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 300.
  15. ^ Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World: Performance and production. Volume II. A&C Black. 30 January 2003. p. 208. ISBN 978-0-8264-6321-0.
  16. ^ Encyclopaedia of Boxing. R. Hale. 1979. p. 236. ISBN 978-0-7091-7745-6.
  17. ^ Stuart Brown; Hugh Bredin (August 2005). Dictionary of Twentieth-Century British Philosophers. A&C Black. p. 563. ISBN 978-1-84371-096-7.
  18. ^ House of Commons: With Full Results of the Polling, Biographies of Members and Unsuccessful Candidates, Photographs of All Members, and a Complete Analysis, Statistical Tables, and a Map of the General Election. Times Office. 1964. p. 198.
  19. ^ Jim Perrin (December 1993). Menlove: The Life of John Menlove Edwards. Ernest Press. ISBN 978-0-948153-28-0.
  20. ^ Bernhard Maier; Stefan Zimmer (31 August 2015). 150 Jahre "Mabinogion" - deutsch-walisische Kulturbeziehungen. De Gruyter. p. 170. ISBN 978-3-11-095164-6.
  21. ^ Geoffrey Handley-Taylor (1972). Cheshire, Derbyshire and Staffordshire authors today. Eddison Press Ltd. p. 65.
  22. ^ “Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
  23. ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 2000. p. 56.
  24. ^ The Times, Saturday, Mar 05, 1910; pg. 13; Issue 39212; col B Deaths
  25. ^ Williams, Richard Bryn (1981), "HUGHES, ANNIE HARRIET", Dictionary of Welsh Biography, retrieved 25 March 2016
  26. ^ (1992), Edward VII: Image of an Era 1841–1910, London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office, p. 151, ISBN 978-0-11-290508-0
  27. ^ Scott, Rosemary (2004). "Waring, Anna Letitia (1823–1910)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. Retrieved 26 April 2010.
  28. ^ Robert (Bob) Owen. "Williams, Thomas Lloyd (1830-1910), Welsh-American writer". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
  29. ^ Edward Morgan Humphreys. "Jones, John Hugh (1843-1910), Roman Catholic priest". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 14 October 2019.
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