1889 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; Timeline of Welsh history 1889 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1889 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

January - First Glamorgan County Council elections are held.^[1]
8 February - Nine people drown in a ferry accident at Pembroke Dock.
14 February - North Wales Weekly News first published (under the title Weekly News and Visitors’ Chronicle for Colwyn Bay, Colwyn, Llandrillo, Conway, Deganway and Neighbourhood).^[2]
13 March - 20 miners are killed in an accident at the Brynmally Colliery, Wrexham.
June - A lion escapes from a travelling menagerie at Llandrindod Wells.^[3]
18 July - Opening of the first dock basin at Barry.
3 August - Opening of Hawarden Bridge.
12 August - The passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act marks the beginning of secondary education in Wales.
15 August - Three men are killed in a mining accident at Wenvoe Quarry, Glamorgan.^[4]
26 August - Act of incorporation of the Barry Railway Company#Vale of Glamorgan Railway.
Approximate date - The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain is co-founded in Salford as the United Kingdom Van Dwellers Protection Association by Jacob Studt and other active Welsh cinema pioneers.

12 January - John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster and philanthropist (died 1922)
22 January - John Emlyn-Jones, politician (died 1952)
28 January - Phil Waller, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1917)
31 January - Jack Evans, footballer (died 1971)
1 February - John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)
10 February - Howard Spring, novelist (died 1965)
28 February - George Jeffreys, Pentecostalist (died 1962)
5 May - Stanley Winmill, Wales international rugby union player (died 1940)
24 June - Harry Symonds, cricketer (died 1945)
17 July - Aled Owen Roberts, politician (died 1949)
5 August - William Davies Thomas, academic (died 1954)
10 August - Irene Steer, swimmer (died 1977)
21 August - Henry Lewis, Professor at Swansea University (died 1968)
23 October - William Havard, Bishop of St Davids and international rugby player (died 1956)
11 December - Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)

21 January - Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, 81
27 May - George Owen Rees, Welsh-Italian doctor, 75
8 June - Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet, 44
17 June (in St Petersburg) - John Hughes, industrialist, 73
26 June - Walter Rice Howell Powell, landowner and politician, 69
28 September - Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player, 34
29 October - Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player, 36
14 November - James Stephens, stonemason, Chartist, and later Australian trade unionist, 68
probable - Richard Williams Morgan, clergyman and poet

^ "The County Council Elections". Cambrian. 18 January 1889. Retrieved 21 November 2013.
^ "Weekly News 125: How it all began 125 years ago..." www.dailypost.co.uk. Daily Post. 13 February 2014. Retrieved 8 November 2017. {{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in: |publisher= (help)
^ Clay, Jeremy (2014-04-19). "Victorian strangeness: The tale of the lion and the spa break". BBC. Retrieved 2014-04-19.
^ Western Mail - Friday 16 August 1889, p.3, Accessed via The British Newspaper Archive (subscription required). Retrieved 19 November 2014.