1916 in Wales - Events

Events

• 1 January – The Port Eynon lifeboat capsizes and three crew members die.
• 7 February – The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cardiff is established.
• 31 May – 1 June – Hugh Evan-Thomas distinguishes himself in the Battle of Jutland; he is later knighted.
• 4 July – Royal Welch Fusiliers Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon attacks a German trench single-handed, and records the outcome in his memoirs.
• 7–12 July – The 38th (Welsh) Division loses so many men in the Mametz Wood action during the Battle of the Somme that it is unable to re-group for a year.
• 12 July – Railway worker James Dally is awarded the Edward Medal by King George V for his actions in saving a colleague from falling from the Crumlin Viaduct.
• October – T. E. Lawrence is sent into the desert to report on the Arab nationalist movements.
• 7 November– Charles Evans Hughes loses narrowly to Woodrow Wilson in the United States presidential election.
• November – Christopher Williams visits the scene of the Welsh losses at Mametz Wood and later paints his famous The Welsh at Mametz Wood at the request of David Lloyd George.
• 7 December – David Lloyd George is the first (and, to date, the only) Welshman to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
• 7 December – David Alfred Thomas is created Baron Rhondda. He is appointed President of the Local Government Board.
• The Royal laryngologist John Milsom Rees is knighted.
• The National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth is brought into use.