Events
- 27 January - Three men are killed in an explosion at the Dowlais Works, East Moors, Cardiff.
- 4 February - At Pendine Sands, Sir Malcolm Campbell sets a new world land speed record of 174.88 mph (281.44 km/h).
- 5 February - The first ever radio sports commentary from Wales is on the Wales v Ireland rugby match at Cardiff Arms Park.
- 1 March - In a mining accident at Marine Colliery, Ebbw Vale, 52 miners are killed.
- 3 March - J. G. Parry-Thomas is killed at Pendine, attempting to break Campbell's record.
- 30 March - The Cardiff trawler 'Moira' is wrecked on the north Cornish coast, drowning seven members of the crew of 12.
- 21 April - King George V opens the first stage of the National Museum of Wales in Cathays Park, Cardiff.
- 23 April - Cardiff City win the FA Cup beating Arsenal 1-0 at Wembley Stadium and taking the trophy out of England for the first time.
- 29 June - A total eclipse of the sun is 98% visible in Cardiff despite clouds.
- 18 September - The 'Red Sunday in Rhondda Valley' demonstration calls for a protest march on London.
- October - A storm severely and permanently damages a long section of the track of the Pwllheli and Llanbedrog Tramway, the last horse-drawn tram service in Great Britain.
- 8 November - 270 South Wales people join a hunger march in protest against the Ministry of Health who refused and limited the relief notes given to unemployed miners and their families.
- 25 December - A Christmas Day blizzard affects Cardiff and much of South Wales.
- Coleg Harlech, founded by Thomas Jones (T. J.), opens. Its aims resemble those of a modern community college.
- The highest railway in the British Isles is constructed at the Grwyne Fawr reservoir in Powys.
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“All the events which make the annals of the nations are but the shadows of our private experiences.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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