1912 in Wales - Events

Events

• 1 March - National miners' strike, led in Wales by Vernon Hartshorn and Noah Ablett among others.
• 15 April - Wireless operator Artie Moore of Gelligroes near Blackwood, hears a distress signal from RMS Titanic.
• 22 April - Denys Corbett Wilson leaves Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, to make the first manned flight fully across the Irish Sea in a time of 1 hour 40 minutes.
• 26 April - Vivian Hewitt of Bodfari in Denbighshire makes a manned flight across the Irish Sea, from Holyhead to Dublin.
• 28 May - A major demonstration in favour of disestablishment takes place in Swansea.
• 1 August - Chemist Humphrey Owen Jones marries a colleague, Muriel Gwendolen Edwards. A fortnight later the couple, both keen climbers, are killed in a fall while on their honeymoon in the Alps.
• 17 September - Welsh immigrant workers play a major part in organizing the coal miners' strike in Vancouver Island, Canada.
• The Welsh Health Service Insurance Commission is established.
• Sir David Brynmor Jones becomes a member of the Privy Council.
• Alfred Thomas is created Baron Pontypridd.
• The foundation stone of the National Museum Cardiff is laid. (It does not open to the public until 1927.)
• Dan yr Ogof caves are discovered by brothers Jeff and Tommy Morgan.
• King George V and Queen Mary visit Merthyr Tydfil amid much controversy.
• Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith becomes chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary Liberal Party.
• A drill hall is built in the Pen-dre area of Tywyn for the Territorial Army (the 7th Battalion the Royal Welsh Fusiliers). The hall, now known as Neuadd Pendre, was renovated 100 years after its construction, with grants from various sources, and now houses a 3-manual 9-rank Wurlitzer Organ originally installed in a cinema in Woolwich.