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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1890 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents[edit]

For United Kingdom incumbents, see 1890 in the United Kingdom § Incumbents.

Events[edit]

  • 6 February - In a gas explosion at Llanerch Colliery, Pontypool, 176 miners are killed.[20]
  • 10 March - In a gas explosion at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 86 miners are killed.[21]
  • 7 April - An Easter Monday conference at Llangefni leads to agreement with employers on a shorter working day for male agricultural labourers.
  • 13 April - At a by-election in Caernarfon, David Lloyd George wins the seat for the Liberals from the Conservatives, defeating H. J. E. Nanney, the local squire; Lloyd George remains the constituency MP until his death in 1945.
  • 22 May - Y Cymro is launched by Isaac Foulkes (Llyfrbryf) in Liverpool as a liberal weekly Welsh language "national newspaper for Welshmen at home and abroad"; it is published until 1909.
  • Summer - Queen Elisabeth of Romania visits Llandudno, staying for five weeks and later remembering it as "a beautiful haven of peace"; the phrase is later translated into Welsh and used as the town's motto.
  • 21 December - Beginning of a 3-week period of severe winter weather causing deaths and disruption to daily life in many parts of Wales.
  • Opening of the Rock Mill watermill for woollen milling at Capel Dewi, Llandysul.

Arts and literature[edit]

Awards[edit]

National Eisteddfod of Wales - held at Bangor

New books[edit]

Music[edit]

Events[edit]

  • The National Musical Association of Wales is formed, with Joseph Parry as a sponsor.[24]

Works[edit]

Sport[edit]

Births[edit]

Deaths[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

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  2. ^ Robert Thomas Jenkins (1959). "Davies, Richard (1818-1896), M.P.". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  3. ^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. Dod. 1921. p. 356.
  4. ^ National Museum of Wales (1935). Adroddiad Blynyddol. The Museum. p. 3.
  5. ^ 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.
  6. ^ Edward Arthur Copleston (1878). Where's where? Pt. 1. A concise gazetteer of Somerset. Pt. 2. Statistical, educational, parliamentary and practical information. p. 80.
  7. ^ 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.
  8. ^ Henry Taylor (1895). "Popish recusants in Flintshire in 1625". Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales. Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales: 304.
  9. ^ a b William Llewelyn Davies (1959). "Talbot family, of Margam Abbey and Penrice Castle Glamorganshire". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 24 November 2021.
  10. ^ The Annual Register. Rivingtons. 1892. p. 179.
  11. ^ Reese, M. M. (1976). The royal office of Master of the Horse. London: Threshold Books Ltd. p. 348. ISBN 9780901366900.
  12. ^ Weyman, Henry T. (1929). "Shropshire M.P.s - Memoirs". T.S.A.S., Series 4, Volume XII. p. 28.
  13. ^ Lodge, Edmund (2020). Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire... Salzwasser-Verlag GMBH. p. 318. ISBN 9783752502664.
  14. ^ Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1885. p. 1027.
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  16. ^ Thomas Iorwerth Ellis (1959). "Lloyd, Daniel Lewis (1843-1899), schoolmaster and bishop". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
  17. ^ Death Of The Bishop Of Llandaff, The Times, 25 January 1905; page 4; Issue 37613; col A
  18. ^ Thomas Iorwerth Ellis (1959). "Edwards, Alfred George (1848-1937), first archbishop of Wales". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 March 2022.
  19. ^ "William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids". Dictionary of National Biography. Retrieved 21 April 2011.
  20. ^ Francis, Hywel (1998). The Fed : a history of the South Wales miners in the twentieth century. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 80. ISBN 9780708314227.
  21. ^ Kõiva, Mare (1995). Folk belief today. Tartu: Estonian Academy of Sciences, Institute of the Estonian Language & Estonian Museum of Literature. p. 112. ISBN 9789985851111.
  22. ^ "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 11 December 2019.
  23. ^ "Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 17 November 2019.
  24. ^ "History". Welsh Music Guild. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  25. ^ David Ewart Parry Williams; Evan David Jones (2001). "Rees, John Thomas (1857-1949), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 9 March 2022.
  26. ^ Nina Hamnett (23 March 2011). Laughing Torso - Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett. Read Books Limited. p. 7. ISBN 978-1-4465-4552-2.
  27. ^ Great Britain. Foreign Office (1949). The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book for ... Harrison and Sons. p. 3937.
  28. ^ All India Reporter. D.V. Chitaley. 1938. p. 65.
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  32. ^ Larrain, Jacob (1893). Biografía del doctor Guillermo Rawson. La Plata: Imp., Lit. y Encuad. de Solá Hnos. Sesé y Ca. (in Spanish)
  33. ^ Cheltenham Looker-In, March 1890
  34. ^ "The Late Mr. Swetemham, M.P." Llangollen Advertiser via National Library of Wales. 28 March 1890. Retrieved 16 June 2018.
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  36. ^ James Louis Garvin; Franklin Henry Hooper; Warren E. Cox (1929). The Encyclopedia Britannica. The Encyclopedia Britannica Company. p. 891.
  37. ^ "The Late Mr David Pugh M.P." Carmarthen Journal. 17 October 1890. p. 8. Retrieved 30 November 2016.
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  40. ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1897). "Salisbury, Enoch Robert Gibbon" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 50. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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