1896 in Wales

none September 2019 February 2020 1896 thumb|alt=A line of Welsh people sitting outside. This article is about the particular significance of the year 1896 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1896 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa MônHywel Teifi Edwards The Eisteddfod https://books.google.com/books?id=K81RDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT39 20 July 2016 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-914-6 39 Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Richard Davies (until 27 October);s-DAVI-RIC-1818 Davies, Richard (1818-1896), M.P. Robert Thomas Jenkins 1959 24 November 2021 Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet (from 30 November) Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron GlanuskDod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes Dod 1921 356 Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest GreavesNational Museum of Wales Adroddiad Blynyddol The Museum 1935 3 Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-EvansThe 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 443 Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl CawdorEdward Arthur Copleston Where's where? Pt. 1. A concise gazetteer of Somerset. Pt. 2. Statistical, educational, parliamentary and practical information 1878 80 Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West Potter Matthew The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present Routledge Abingdon, Oxon 2016 9781351545471 149 Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert HughesJournal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales Popish recusants in Flintshire in 1625 Henry Taylor Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales 1895 304 Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynnehttps://cylchgronau.llyfrgell.cymru/view/2043441/2044175/159 Transactions of the Liverpool Welsh National Society 1891-92 National Library of Wales 15 March 2022 Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort Reese M. M. The royal office of Master of the Horse Threshold Books Ltd London 1976 9780901366900 348 Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington (until 7 October); Lodge Edmund Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire... Salzwasser-Verlag GMBH 2020 9783752502664 318 Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor (from 23 November) Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett MilbankWhitaker's Almanack Joseph Whitaker Whitaker's Almanack 1913 847 Bishop of Bangor – Daniel Lewis Lloyds-LLOY-LEW-1843 Thomas Iorwerth Ellis Lloyd, Daniel Lewis (1843-1899), schoolmaster and bishop National Library of Wales 1959 5 November 2021 Bishop of Llandaff – Richard LewisDavid Henry Williams Catalogue of Seals in the National Museum of Wales: Seal dies, Welsh seals, papal bullae National Museum of Wales 1993 75 Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)Who was Who 1897–2007, 1991, 978-0-19-954087-7 Bishop of St Davids – Basil Joneshttp://www.llangynfelyn.org/dogfennau/william_basil_DNB.html William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids Dictionary of National Biography 21 April 2011 Events 28 January – In an underground explosion at Tylorstown Colliery, Rhondda, 57 miners are killed.Welsh Coal Mines http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/Photo.htm 2010-11-27 February – Construction of the Snowdon Mountain Railway is completed. 27 March – Colonel Sir Francis Marindin makes an unofficial inspection of the Snowdon Mountain Railway line on behalf of the Board of Trade. This includes a demonstration of the automatic brakes. 6 April – The Snowdon Mountain Railway commences public operation. On the first trip down the mountain, locomotive No.1 "Ladas" with two carriages loses the rack and is derailed. A passenger dies after jumping from the carriage.http://www.narrow-gauge-pleasure.co.uk/rlysnowdon.html The Snowdon Mountain Railway 4 December 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20110604203440/http://www.narrow-gauge-pleasure.co.uk/rlysnowdon.html 4 June 2011 dead dmy-all The second train down collides with the wreckage of the first; services are suspended for a year.Kardas Handel Britain's worst railway opening day – Ladas and the Snowdon Mountain Railway Railway World 58 683 April 1997 66–71 c. May – Opening of Empire Exhibition at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff, including a roller coaster. 14 May – Garth Pier, Bangor, opened by George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn. June – The Prince and Princess of Wales visit Aberystwyth, where the prince is installed as chancellor of the University of Wales and the princess opens the new pier pavilion. 1 August – Aberystwyth Cliff Railway and camera obscura opened. 24 September – William Frost flies his Frost Airship Glider for the only time. 30 September—August 1897 – Lock-out of slate workers at Penrhyn Quarry.Jean Lindsay A History of the North Wales Slate Industry Newton Abbot David & Charles 1974 0-7153-6264-X 11 October – While attending Sunday service in St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden (on a visit to Gladstone), the Archbishop of Canterbury, Edward White Benson, dies of a heart attack. His body is subsequently transported home by train. Bishop of Menevia, John Cuthbert Hedley, is one of a group of Roman Catholic bishops who successfully petition Pope Leo XIII to lift the ban on Catholic students attending British universities, providing that the universities agreed to allow Catholic professors to teach theology and history, "with such exhaustiveness and soundness that the minds of the young men may be effectively fortified against errors".BBC News, "Bishop Hedley's Cathays Cemetery memorial restored and rededicated", 31 January 2012. Accessed 23 October 2014 Opening of Shotton steelworks. Opening of the first indoor swimming pool in Wales, at Guildhall Crescent, Cardiff. Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Llandudno Chair – Ben Davies, "Tuhwnt i'r llên"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair live https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair 13 February 2021 Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 18 February 2021 Crown – withheld New books Owen Morgan Edwards – Cartrefi Cymru Bertrand Russell – German Social Democracy Music Nicholas Bennett – Alawon fy Ngwlads-BENN-NIC-1823 Bennett, Nicholas (1823-1899), musician and historian Robert David Griffith 12 January 2025 David Jenkins – Four Welsh Airshttps://archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/search/archives/07326273-bad0-3470-ba2d-d1be09dc2878?component=ec6ea9a8-ca35-3648-8e76-9f3748186f46 Four Welsh Airs arranged for choir and full orchestra Archives Hub 12 January 2025 Film 5 May – Birt Acres' The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race (1895) becomes the first film in the UK to be commercially screened outside London when it is shown at Cardiff Town Hall.http://www.learnaboutmovieposters.com/newsite/INDEX/COUNTRIES/UK/BritishFilmHistory.asp Overview of British Film History Learn about movie posters.com 2007-04-07 27 June - The first Royal news film ever shot in Britain shows the Prince and Princess of Wales visiting the Cardiff Exhibition.https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/film/pages/history-1896-1910.shtml The Pioneering Years: 1896-1910 BBC Wales 12 January 2025 Sport Football – The Welsh Cup is won by Bangor for the second time in its 17-year history. Births 18 January – Walter James, 4th Baron Northbourne, agriculturist (died 1982) 7 March – Charlie Pugh, Wales national rugby player (died 1951) 21 March – Dai Edwards, Wales dual-code rugby international (died 1960) 4 April – W. S. Gwynn Williams, musician (died 1978)s10-WILL-GWY-1896 Williams, William Sidney Gwynn (1896–1978), musician and administrator Rhidian Griffiths National Library of Wales 10 December 2019 1 May – Hubert William Lewis, VC recipient (died 1977) 6 May – Wilfred Hodder, Wales international rugby player (died 1957) 7 May – Edgar Morgan, dual-code rugby international (died 1983) 13 August – Walter Price, footballer 28 August – Dai Davies, cricketer (died 1976) 1 September – Steve Morris, Wales national rugby player (died 1965) 11 September – John Morris, Baron Morris of Borth-y-Gest, judge (died 1979)The Cambrian law review https://books.google.com/books?id=sSZKAQAAIAAJ 1978 Department of Law, University College of Wales 5 15 September – Owen Temple-Morris, politician (died 1985) 4 December – Hugh Percy Wilkins, selenographer (died 1960)John Guy Porter Patrick Moore Yearbook of Astronomy https://books.google.com/books?id=81c0AQAAIAAJ 1996 W.W. Norton 115 9780333637029 Deaths 7 January – William James, clergyman, Principal of Carmarthen Trinity College, 63'Obituary' The Times London, Thursday, Jan. 9, 1896 Issue 34782 p.6 17 January – Augusta Hall, Baroness Llanover, patron of the arts, 93https://biography.wales/article/s10-HALL-AUG-1802 Hall, Augusta, Lady Llanover ('Gwenynen Gwent') (1802–1896), patron of Welsh culture and inventor of the Welsh national costume Marion Löffler Dictionary of Wales Biography National Library of Wales 10 December 2019 26 February – Octavius Vaughan Morgan, politician, 59Journal of the Iron and Steel Institute Obituaries Iron and Steel Institute 1896 287 17 March – Gethin Davies, Welsh Baptist minister and college principal, 49Gethin Davies s-DAVI-GET-1846 Rees James Frederick 2 May 2017 5 April – John Rogers Thomas, Welsh-descended American songwriter and composer, 66https://books.google.com/books?id=OXBGAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA445 The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography VIII James T. White & Company 445 1924 2021-01-27 Google Books 10 April – John Edward Jones, Governor of Nevada, 55https://www.nga.org/governor/john-edward-jones/ John Edward Jones National Governors Association 12 January 2025 25 April – Charles Williams-Wynn, politician, 73https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3861254/3861260/29/G.B.%20williams%20amlwch Death of Charles Watkins Williams-Wynn The Montgomery County Times and Shropshire and Mid-Wales Advertiser 2 May 1896 10 December 2019 23 July – Arthur Linton, cyclist, 27 1 August – William Robert Grove, lawyer, judge and scientist, 8511685 Iwan Rhys Morus Grove, Sir William Robert (1811–1896) 7 October – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington, Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire, 61Lord Kensington Dead. Suddenly Expired While Shooting http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3355334/3355337/48 5 November 2016 South Wales Daily Post 8 October 1896 3 27 October – Richard Davies, businessman, ship-owner and politician, 77 25 December – John Ashton, composer, 66Ashton, John (1830 - 1896), musician s-ASHT-JOH-1830 Robert David Griffith 1959 9 February 2016 30 December – Evan Herber Evans, Nonconformist leader, 60Evans, Evan Herber Daniel Lleufer Thomas See also 1896 in Ireland References Wales Category:1896 in Europe Category:1890s in Wales