1913 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1913 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

19 February - Suffragette arson attack on a house being built for David Lloyd George near Walton Heath Golf Club in Surrey. Emmeline Pankhurst, in a speech in Cardiff this evening, claims to have incited this and other incidents.
5 June - The last ship built at Porthmadog, Y Gestiana, is launched; on 4 October she is wrecked on her maiden voyage, on the coast of Nova Scotia.
14 June - Three years after leaving Cardiff on her fateful voyage to the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ship Terra Nova returns to the port, commanded by Scott's former comrade Teddy Evans.
14 October - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster: 439 men are killed in a mining accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd - the worst accident in British mining history. 1913 is the peak year for coal production in Wales.
27 October - A tornado hits South Wales, killing four people.
Diplomat William Henry Hoare Vincent is knighted.
Carmarthen Farm Institute is founded - the first of its kind.
Monmouthshire Training College is founded at Caerleon, with Edward Anwyl as its first principal.
School of Mines founded at Treforest, a predecessor of the University of South Wales.

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Boxing
2 June - Bill Beynon wins the British and Empire bantamweight championship.
Rugby Union
18 January - Wales are defeated 12–0 by England in a game played at the National Stadium, Cardiff

7 March Ã¢ÂÂ E. Gwyndaf Evans, poet and archdruid (died 1986)
13 March Ã¢ÂÂ Tessie O'Shea, entertainer and actress (d. 1995)
29 March - R. S. Thomas, poet (d. 2000)
31 March - Dai Rees, golfer (died 1983)
8 May - Tom Rees, Wales international rugby player (d. 1991)
27 May - Mervyn Stockwood, Anglican bishop (d. 1995)
5 June - Moelwyn Merchant, poet and novelist (d. 1997)
15 June - Sir James Hamlyn Williams-Drummond, Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, 56
6 July - Gwyn Thomas, author (died 1981)
23 July - Michael Foot, politician, MP for Ebbw Vale 1960-1992 (died 2010)
7 September - William "Wendy" Davis, Wales international rugby player (d. 2002)
2 October - Vivian Ridler, printer (died 2009)
18 December - Eddie Morgan, Wales international rugby player (d. 1978)

4 February - Tom Williams, Wales international rugby player and sports administrator, c.52
8 February - James Webb, Wales rugby international, 50
16 February (in Australia) - Lewis Thomas, colliery proprietor and politician, 80
11 March - Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, British Army officer, politician and philanthropist, 81
19 March - John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia), harpist, 87
30 March - Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, politician, 60
3 April (in London) - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff, politician, 87
15 April - William Jones, Victoria Cross recipient, c.73
4 June (in London) - Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, politician, 78
24 July - , children's author, 65
17 August - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player, 49
22 September - Emmeline Lewis Lloyd, alpine mountaineer, 85
c. 8 October - John Jones (Coch Bach y Bala), notorious criminal, c.59
6 November - Sir William Henry Preece, electrical engineer, 79
7 November (in Broadstone, Dorset) - Alfred Russel Wallace, scientist, 90
19 December (in South Africa) - Bert Gould, Wales international rugby player, 43
date unknown - Thomas Thomas (apTommas), harpist and younger brother of John Thomas, 82/3