Events
- 16 January - Edgeworth David is a member of the expedition which successfully reaches the Magnetic South Pole.
- 2 July - Thirty-six men are killed when a trench collapses during construction of the Alexandra Dock part of Newport Docks.
- 26 July - 7 August the National Pageant of Wales is held at Cardiff Castle.
- August - Noah Ablett is a founding member of the Plebs' League at Ruskin College, Oxford.
- October - Monthly rainfall of 56.5 inches is measured at Llyn Llydaw, Snowdonia - a British record.
- 29 October - A mining accident at Darren Colliery, New Tredegar, kills 26 men.
- December - Thomas "Toya" Lewis is awarded the Albert Medal by King Edward VII of the United Kingdom for his heroism in rescuing survivors of the Newport Dock collapse earlier in the year (see 2 July).
- King's Dock, part of Swansea Docks, is opened.
- Thomas Rees becomes principal of Bala-Bangor Theological College.
- The first mines rescue station in south Wales is opened at Aberaman.
- The Bryn Eglwys slate quarry, the Abergynolwyn estate and village and Talyllyn Railway are purchased by Sir Henry Haydn Jones.
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