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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1889 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
- Princess of Wales – Alexandra
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd
Events
- January – First Glamorgan County Council elections are held.[1]
- 8 February – Nine people drown in a ferry accident at Pembroke Dock.
- 14 February – The first edition of the North Wales Weekly News is published (under the title Weekly News and Visitors’ Chronicle for Colwyn Bay, Colwyn, Llandrillo, Conway, Deganway and Neighbourhood).[2]
- 13 March – Twenty miners are killed in an accident at the Brynmally Colliery, Wrexham.
- 1 April – New elected county councils in England and Wales created by the Local Government Act 1888, take up their powers.[3][4][5] That for Radnorshire meets in Presteigne.
- June – A lion escapes from a travelling menagerie at Llandrindod Wells.[6]
- 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.[7]
- 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.
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Brecon
- Chair – Evan Rees, "Y Beibl Cymraeg"[8]
- Crown – Howell Elvet Lewis
New books
- Owen Morgan Edwards – O'r Bala i Geneva
Music
- Sir Henry Walford Davies – The Future, for chorus and orchestra
Sport
- Cricket – Glamorgan County Cricket Club plays its first match, against Warwickshire at Cardiff Arms Park.
- Rugby union – Bedwas RFC, Blackwood RFC and Llantwit Major RFC are formed.
Births
- 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)[9]
- 31 January – Jack Evans, footballer (died 1971)
- 1 February – John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)
- 10 February – Howard Spring, novelist (died 1965)[10]
- 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)[11]
- 23 October – William Havard, Bishop of St Davids and international rugby player (died 1956)[12]
- 11 December – Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)
Deaths
- 21 January – Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, 81
- 27 March – John Bright, Radical politician associated with Llandudno, 77[13]
- 10 April – Kilsby Jones, nonconformist minister, writer and lecturer, 76[14]
- 27 May – George Owen Rees, Welsh-Italian doctor, 75
- 8 June – Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet, 44 (in Ireland)
- 17 June – John Hughes, industrialist, 73 (in St Petersburg)[15]
- 26 June – Walter Rice Howell Powell, landowner and politician, 69
- 28 September – Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player, 34
- 15 October – Sir Daniel Gooch, railway engineer and politician, 73[16]
- 29 October – Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player, 36
- 14 November – James Stephens, stonemason, Chartist, and later Australian trade unionist, 68
- 18 November – Charles Easton Spooner, railway pioneer, 71[17]
- date unknown – G. Phillips Bevan, statistician, geographer and author, 59/60[18]
- probable – Richard Williams Morgan, clergyman and poet
References
- ^ "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.
- ^ Edwards, John (1955). "County". Chambers's Encyclopedia. London: Newnes. pp. 189–191.
- ^ "The County Council Elections". The Times (32595). London. 14 January 1889. p. 10.
- ^ "The County Councils". The Times (32601). 21 January 1889. p. 10.
- ^ Clay, Jeremy (19 April 2014). "Victorian strangeness: The tale of the lion and the spa break". BBC. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- ^ Western Mail - Friday 16 August 1889, p.3, Accessed via The British Newspaper Archive (subscription required). Retrieved 19 November 2014.
- ^ "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 October 2019.
- ^ Nigel McCrery (29 January 2014). Into Touch: Rugby Internationals Killed in the Great War. Pen and Sword. p. 252. ISBN 978-1-78159-087-4.
- ^ Contemporary Authors. Gale Research Company. 1975. p. 594. ISBN 978-0-8103-0036-1.
- ^ David Myrddin Lloyd. "Lewis, Henry (1889-1968), Welsh and Celtic scholar, university professor". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ Mary Gwendoline Ellis. "Havard, William (1889-1956), bishop". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 27 July 2019.
- ^ Trevelyan, George Macaulay (1913) The Life of John Bright. Pages 462-3
- ^ Smith, Robert V. "Jones, James Rhys Kilsby". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/15019. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "John Hughes". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 3 May 2010.
- ^ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland. S. Low, Marston & Company. 1923. p. 363.
- ^ Peter Johnson (30 April 2017). Festiniog Railway: The Spooner Era and After, 1830–1920. Pen & Sword Books. p. 176. ISBN 978-1-4738-6988-2.
- ^ Lee, Sidney, ed. (1912). . Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). 1. London: Smith, Elder & Co.