1905 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales; Timeline of Welsh history 1905 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1905 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

31 January - 1904–1905 Welsh Revival: Rev Peter Price writes to the Western Mail, criticising the "so-called" revival led by Evan Roberts.^[1]
10 March - 33 men are killed in a mining accident at Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, Rhondda.
29 March - Evan Roberts embarks on his first and only mission outside Wales, spending a three-week period in Liverpool.^[2]
27 May - Thomas Price becomes Premier of South Australia.
30 June - Opening of the Prichard Jones Institute at Newborough, Anglesey.
11 July - National Colliery disaster at Wattstown in the Rhondda: an underground explosion kills 120, with just one survivor.
28 August - The Dyserth branch line is opened to passengers.
21 October - The centenary of the death of Horatio Nelson is commemorated in a ceremony at The Kymin. Participants include Lady Llangattock.
28 October - Edward VII grants city status to Cardiff.
10 December - David Lloyd George joins the new Liberal Cabinet of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman as President of the Board of Trade.
18 December - The earldom of Plymouth is revived in favour of Robert George Windsor-Clive, 14th Baron Windsor, who also becomes Viscount Windsor of St. Fagan's.
28 December - Godfrey Morgan is created Viscount Tredegar.^[3]
Sir John Williams purchases the Peniarth manuscripts at the instigation of John Gwenogvryn Evans.

David John de Lloyd is the first music graduate of University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
John Hughes (1873-1932) - "Cwm Rhondda" (hymn tune, first version, as "Rhondda")
William Penfro Rowlands - "Blaenwern" (hymn tune)

6 January - Idris Davies, poet (died 1953)
10 February - Rachel Thomas, actress (died 1995)
28 February - Glyn Jones, writer (died 1995)
1 March - Doris Hare, actress (died 2000)
18 April - Alun Oldfield-Davies, controller of BBC Wales (died 1988)
18 May - Thomas Jones Pierce, historian (died 1964)
28 June - Albert Clifford Williams, politician (died 1987)
11 July - Jack Bassett, Wales international rugby union player (died 1989)
2 August - Myrna Loy, actress of Welsh descent (died 1993)
13 August - Gareth Jones, journalist and advisor to David Lloyd George (died 1935)
28 August - Cyril Walters, cricketer (died 1992)
31 October - W. F. Grimes, archaeologist (died 1988)
26 November - Emlyn Williams, dramatist and actor (died 1987)
10 December - John Edward Jones, Plaid Cymru leader (died 1970)
18 December - Stanley Cornwell Lewis, artist
22 December - Gwyn Richards, dual-code rugby player (died 1985)
29 December - Billy Williams, dual-code international rugby player (died 1973)

14 March - Henry Paget, 5th Marquess of Anglesey, 29
25 April - David Watkin Jones, poet, 73
29 May - Robert Franklin John, Welsh-born farmer and political figure in British Columbia, 54^[4]
August/September - Peter Rees Jones, entrepreneur, 62
14 October - John Thomas, photographer, 67
15 October - Thomas Howells (Hywel Cynon), poet and musician, 66
28 October - Barry Girling, Wales international rugby union player
10 November - Rowland Williams (Hwfa Môn), poet and archdruid, 82
19 November - Watkin Hezekiah Williams (Watcyn Wyn), schoolmaster and poet, 61
25 November - William Cadwaladr Davies, educationist, 56
9 December - Arthur Humphreys-Owen, barrister, landowner and politician, 69
14 December - Nathaniel Jones, minister and poet, 73
17 December - Robert Jones Derfel, poet and dramatist, 81

^ Rhodri Hayward, Resisting History: Religious Transcendence and the Invention of the Unconscious (Manchester University Press, 2007) p 124
^ Gwilym Hughes, "The story of the Liverpool mission". Accessed 8 April 2014
^ Welsh Biography Online. Accessed 1 June 2014
^ "Vital Event Death Registration". BC Archives. Retrieved 1 August 2011.

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