1914 in Wales

Centuries:	18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; ;
Decades:	1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; Timeline of Welsh history 1914 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1914 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

14 January - The first trolleybuses in Wales come into operation, in Aberdare.
23 February - Light cruiser HMS Cordelia is launched at Pembroke Dock.
2 May - South Wales Transport begins operating motorbuses in the Swansea area.
4 August - World War I: Declaration of war by the United Kingdom on the German Empire.^[1]
6 August - Pembroke Dock-built HMS Amphion (1911) becomes the first British naval casualty of the war when she strikes mines off the east coast.
18 September - Welsh Church Act, disestablishing the Church in Wales, receives Royal Assent, but simultaneously with the Suspensory Act which delays its coming into effect.
21 September - William Charles Fuller wins the Victoria Cross for carrying a wounded officer to safety under fire.
14 November - Light cruiser HMS Carysfort is launched at Pembroke Dock.
A Welsh Home Rule Bill, introduced by Edward T. John, MP for East Denbighshire, fails.
A women's teacher training college opens at Barry; a men's equivalent opens at Caerleon.
The hundredth intermediate school in Wales is established under the Welsh Intermediate and Technical Education Act 1889.
William James Thomas, industrialist and philanthropist, is knighted.

Rhoda Broughton - Concerning a Vow
Moelwyn - Caniadau Moelwyn, vol. 4
Bertrand Russell - Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
T. E. Ellis - Pont Orewyn^[2]

Boxing
- 26 January: Percy Jones wins the British, European and World (disputed) featherweight titles.
- 30 March: Jimmy Wilde wins the European flyweight title.
- 7 July: Freddie Welsh wins the World lightweight title
- 14 December: Johnny Basham wins the British welterweight title.
Rugby union
- 14 March: After Percy Jones is target by Irish players during the 1914 Five Nations Championship, Harry Uzzell leads his men in retaliation in a game notorious for its on the field violence. Wales won the match, and the Welsh pack were dubbed the 'Terrible Eight' by the press.

28 January - Trefor Morgan, financier (d. 1970)
11 February - Mervyn Levy, art critic (d. 1996)
12 March - Tommy Farr, boxer (d. 1986)
12 March - Cliff Jones, Wales international rugby captain (d. 1990)
21 March - Sir Goronwy Daniel, academic and civil servant (d. 2003)
23 April - Glyn Daniel, archaeologist and television presenter (d. 1986)
24 May
- Sir Granville Beynon, physicist, (d. 1996)
- Harry Parr Davies, composer and songwriter (d. 1955)
9 September - Alexander Cordell, novelist (d. 1997)
12 September - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (d. 1999)
22 October - David Tecwyn Lloyd, author (d. 1992)
27 October - Dylan Thomas, poet (d. 1953)
21 November - Charles Fisher, poet (d. 2006)
2 December - Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player
7 December - Bryan Hopkin, economist (d. 2009)

^ Penguin Pocket On This Day. Penguin Reference Library. 2006. ISBN 0-14-102715-0.
^ Welsh Biography Online. Accessed 16 June 2014