Events
- 6 February - In an accident at Llanerch Colliery, Pontypool, 176 miners are killed.
- 10 March - In an accident at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 86 miners are killed.
- 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.
- 21 December - Beginning of a 3-week period of severe winter weather causing deaths and disruption to daily life in many parts of Wales.
- Y Cymro is launched.
- Queen Elisabeth of Romania visits Llandudno, staying for five weeks and later remembering it as "a beautiful haven of peace"; the phrase was later translated into Welsh and used as the town's motto.
- Opening of Rock Mill's woollen mill at Capel Dewi.
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