1910 in Wales - Events

Events

• 15 January – 10 February - The United Kingdom general election produces a hung parliament. This is the first election in which all Welsh constituencies have been contested. Of a total of 34 MPs elected in Wales, five are Labour and two Conservative. The 27 Liberal MPs include David Alfred Thomas for Cardiff (replacing Ivor Guest, Baron Ashby St Ledgers, who had been raised to the peerage). Conservatives include William Ormsby-Gore, later Baron Harlech. Unsuccessful candidates include Vernon Hartshorn and Sir George Fossett Roberts. J.H. "Jimmy" Thomas becomes MP for Derby.
• 2 June - Charles Rolls makes the first non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by air, flying from England to France and back again in just over nine hours.
• 13 June - Captain Robert Falcon Scott and his officers enjoy a farewell dinner at the Royal Hotel in St Mary's Street, Cardiff, before beginning their attempt to be the first men to reach the South Pole.
• 15 June - Captain Robert Falcon Scott sets off on his fatal voyage to Antarctica on the ship Terra Nova, sailing from Cardiff.
• 23 June - Edward, eldest son of King George V of the United Kingdom and Queen Mary, is created Prince of Wales, aged 16.
• 12 July - At the Bournemouth International Aviation Meeting, Charles Rolls becomes the first Briton to be killed in an air crash.
• 1 September
  • A lockout begins at Ely Pit in Penygraig, starting a chain of events leading to the Tonypandy Riots.
  • Ninian Park football stadium is opened in Cardiff to serve Cardiff City F.C.
• 11 September - English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine makes an aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea, landing some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay.
• 12 October - Three crew members from the St David's life-boat drown in Ramsey Sound near Ramsey Island.
• 1 November - Coal miners are balloted for strike action by the South Wales Miners' Federation, resulting in 12,000 men working for the Cambrian Combine beginning a 10-month strike.
• 4 November - Ernest Thompson Willows makes the first flight from England to France in his dirigible, City of Cardiff, having earlier in the year made the first flight across the Bristol Channel by airship, from Cardiff to Minehead.
• 8 November - Tonypandy Riots: Stiking coal miners battle with police and damage shops in Tonypandy.
• 9 November - Soldiers and police battle with stiking coal miners at Porth in the Rhondda, with over 500 injuries.
• 3–19 December - The second United Kingdom general election of 1910 results in a Liberal government. Wales elects 26 Liberal, five Labour, and three Conservative MPs.
  • Lord Ninian Edward Crichton-Stuart takes Cardiff for the Conservatives.
  • John Hugh Edwards becomes Liberal MP for Mid Glamorgan.
• 18 December - A storm causes substantial damage to the promenade at Aberystwyth.
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  • Harry Grindell-Matthews invents the “aerophone”.
  • The Royal Commission on Religion in Wales, appointed in 1906, presents its report.
  • The King Edward VII National Memorial Association begins its campaign to eradicate tuberculosis in Wales.
  • The first Girl Guides company in Wales is formed at Carmarthen.
  • Aneurin Bevan leaves school, aged thirteen.
  • Ellis Ellis-Griffith becomes a King's Counsel.