:1890 in Wales

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• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd{{cite DWB|id=s-GRIF-DAV-1800|title=Griffith, David (Clwydfardd; 1800-1894), eisteddfodic bard and arch-druid|author=Daniel Williams|year=1959|fewer-links=yes|access-date=24 November 2021}}

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Richard Davies{{Cite DWB|id=s-DAVI-RIC-1818 |title=Davies, Richard (1818-1896), M.P.|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|year=1959|access-date=24 November 2021}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk{{cite book|title=Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes|publisher=Dod|year=1921|page=356}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves{{cite book|author=National Museum of Wales|title=Adroddiad Blynyddol|publisher=The Museum|year=1935|page=3}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans{{cite book|title=The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland|publisher=Dalcassian Publishing Company|year=1860|page=443}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor{{cite book|author=Edward Arthur Copleston|title=Where's where? Pt. 1. A concise gazetteer of Somerset. Pt. 2. Statistical, educational, parliamentary and practical information|year=1878|page=80}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West{{cite book | last = Potter | first = Matthew | title = The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present | publisher = Routledge | location = Abingdon, Oxon | year = 2016 | isbn = 9781351545471 | page=149}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes{{cite journal|journal=Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales|title=Popish recusants in Flintshire in 1625|author=Henry Taylor|publisher=Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales|year=1895|page=304}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot (until 17 January);{{cite DWB | id=s-TALB-MAR-1700 | author=William Llewelyn Davies | title = Talbot family, of Margam Abbey and Penrice Castle Glamorganshire |fewer-links=yes | year = 1959 | access-date=24 November 2021}} Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth (from 26 June)
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Robert Davies Pryce{{cite book|title=The Annual Register|publisher=Rivingtons|year=1892|page=179}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort{{cite book | last = Reese | first = M. M. | title = The royal office of Master of the Horse | publisher = Threshold Books Ltd | location = London | year = 1976 | isbn = 9780901366900 | page=348}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Edward Herbert, 3rd Earl of Powis{{cite news|last=Weyman|first=Henry T.|title=Shropshire M.P.s - Memoirs|work=T.S.A.S., Series 4, Volume XII|year=1929|page=28}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – William Edwardes, 4th Baron Kensington{{cite book | last = Lodge | first = Edmund | title = Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire... | publisher = Salzwasser-Verlag GMBH | year = 2020 | isbn = 9783752502664 | page=318}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Arthur Walsh, 2nd Baron Ormathwaite{{cite book|title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage|publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited|year=1885|page=1027}}

• Bishop of Bangor – James Colquhoun Campbell (retired in April){{acad|id=CMBL831JC|name=Campbell, John Colquhoun}} Daniel Lewis Lloyd (from 24 June){{cite DWB|id=s-LLOY-LEW-1843|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|title=Lloyd, Daniel Lewis (1843-1899), schoolmaster and bishop|publisher=National Library of Wales|year=1959|access-date=5 November 2021}}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard LewisDeath Of The Bishop Of Llandaff, The Times, 25 January 1905; page 4; Issue 37613; col A
• Bishop of St Asaph – Alfred George Edwards (from 25 March){{cite DWB|id=s-EDWA-GEO-1848|title=Edwards, Alfred George (1848-1937), first archbishop of Wales|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|year=1959|access-date=6 March 2022}}
• Bishop of St Davids – Basil Jones{{cite web | url=http://www.llangynfelyn.org/dogfennau/william_basil_DNB.html | title=William Basil Jones, Bishop of St Davids | work=Dictionary of National Biography | access-date=21 April 2011}}

• 6 February - In a gas explosion at Llanerch Colliery, Pontypool, 176 miners are killed.{{cite book | last = Francis | first = Hywel | title = The Fed : a history of the South Wales miners in the twentieth century | publisher = University of Wales Press | location = Cardiff | year = 1998 | isbn = 9780708314227 | page=80}}
• 10 March - In a gas explosion at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 86 miners are killed.{{cite book | last = Kõiva | first = Mare | title = Folk belief today | publisher = Estonian Academy of Sciences, Institute of the Estonian Language & Estonian Museum of Literature | location = Tartu | year = 1995 | isbn = 9789985851111 | page=112}}
• 7 April - An Easter Monday conference at Llangefni leads to agreement with employers on a shorter working day for male agricultural labourers.
• 13 April - At a by-election in Caernarfon, David Lloyd George wins the seat for the Liberals from the Conservatives, defeating H. J. E. Nanney, the local squire; Lloyd George remains the constituency MP until his death in 1945.
• 22 May - Y Cymro is launched by Isaac Foulkes (Llyfrbryf) in Liverpool as a liberal weekly Welsh language "national newspaper for Welshmen at home and abroad"; it is published until 1909.
• Summer - Queen Elisabeth of Romania visits Llandudno, staying for five weeks and later remembering it as "a beautiful haven of peace"; the phrase is later translated into Welsh and used as the town's motto.
• 21 December - Beginning of a 3-week period of severe winter weather causing deaths and disruption to daily life in many parts of Wales.
• Opening of the Rock Mill watermill for woollen milling at Capel Dewi, Llandysul.

National Eisteddfod of Wales - held at Bangor

• Chair - Thomas Tudno Jones, "Y Llafurwr" {{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair|title=Winners of the Chair|website=National Eisteddfod of Wales|date=11 December 2019}}
• Crown - John John Roberts, "Ardderchog Lu'r Merthyri"{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners|title=Winners of the Crown|website=National Eisteddfod of Wales|date=17 November 2019}}

• Rhoda Broughton - Alas!
• Arthur Machen - The Great God Pan (in the magazine The Whirlwind)

• The National Musical Association of Wales is formed, with Joseph Parry as a sponsor.{{cite web|url=http://welshmusicguild.wales/history/|title=History|website=Welsh Music Guild|access-date=9 March 2022}}

• John Thomas Rees - "Duw sydd noddfa"{{cite DWB|id=s2-REES-THO-1857|title=Rees, John Thomas (1857-1949), musician|year=2001|author1=David Ewart Parry Williams|author2=Evan David Jones|access-date=9 March 2022}}

• Cricket - The England ladies' team plays an exhibition match at Newport.
• Football - The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the third time.
• Hockey - The Welsh Hockey Association is founded.
• Rugby union - Wales win their very first international against England. The only try was scored by Cardiff's 'Buller' Stadden.

• 2 January - Madoline Thomas, actress (died 1989)
• 21 January - Jack Anthony, jockey (died 1954)
• 14 February - Nina Hamnett, artist and Bohemian (died 1956){{cite book|author=Nina Hamnett|title=Laughing Torso - Reminiscences of Nina Hamnett|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5jJ8CgAAQBAJ&pg=PT7|date=23 March 2011|publisher=Read Books Limited|isbn=978-1-4465-4552-2|pages=7}}
• 1 March - Jack Beames, rugby player (died 1970)
• 16 February - Thomas Ifor Rees, diplomat (died 1977){{cite book|author=Great Britain. Foreign Office|title=The Foreign Office List and Diplomatic and Consular Year Book for ...|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bc0fAAAAMAAJ|year=1949|publisher=Harrison and Sons|page=3937}}
• 20 April - Ernest Roberts, politician (died 1969){{cite book|title=All India Reporter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3WA2AAAAIAAJ|year=1938|publisher=D.V. Chitaley|page=65}}
• 5 May - George Littlewood Hirst, Wales international rugby player (died 1967)
• 14 June - Dai Hiddlestone, Wales international rugby player (died 1973)
• 21 June - W. J. A. Davies, rugby player (died 1967)
• 28 July - Horace Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1916)
• 30 August - Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, novelist (died 1977){{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=Poetry 1900-2000|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ppf0CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA18|date=1 October 2007|publisher=Summersdale Publishers Limited|isbn=978-1-84839-722-4|pages=18}}
• 13 September - Johnny Basham, boxer (died 1947)
• 19 September - Jim Griffiths, politician, first Secretary of State for Wales (died 1975){{cite DWB|id=s6-GRIF-JAM-1890|author=John Graham Jones|year=2008|title=Griffiths, James (Jeremiah) (1890-1975), Labour politician and cabinet minister|access-date=9 March 2022}}
• 22 November (in Lancashire) - Harry Pollitt, Communist trade union leader and parliamentary candidate for Rhondda East (died 1960){{cite book | last = Morgan | first = Kevin | title = Harry Pollitt | publisher = Manchester University Press Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press | location = Manchester New York New York | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780719032479 | page=1}}
• 6 December - Dion Fortune, born Violet Firth, English occultist and novelist (died 1946)
• 16 December - P. J. Grigg, politician (died 1964)

• 17 January - Christopher Rice Mansel Talbot, landowner, industrialist and politician, 86
• 20 January - Guillermo Rawson, Argentinian politician and patron of Patagonian Welsh colony, 68 Larrain, Jacob (1893). [https://books.google.com/books?id=G0kCAAAAYAAJ&q=Larrain+Biograf%C3%ADa+del+doctor+Guillermo+Rawson Biografía del doctor Guillermo Rawson.] La Plata: Imp., Lit. y Encuad. de Solá Hnos. Sesé y Ca. {{in lang|es}}
• 4 March - Henry Davies, journalist, publisher and librarian, 86Cheltenham Looker-In, March 1890
• 19 March - Edmund Swetenham, MP for Caernarfon, 67{{cite web|url=http://papuraunewydd.llyfrgell.cymru/view/3171590/3171591/2|title=The Late Mr. Swetemham, M.P.|date=28 March 1890|work=Llangollen Advertiser via National Library of Wales|accessdate=16 June 2018}}
• 8 April - William Jones, Army officer, 81/2
• 21 March - Benjamin Thomas Williams, politician, 57{{Cite web|url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3717462/3717468/90/|title=Will of the Late Mr B. T. Williams, Q.C.{{!}}1890-04-28{{!}}South Wales Daily News - Welsh Newspapers|website=newspapers.library.wales|language=en|access-date=2020-03-05}}
• 29 June - Henry Herbert, 4th Earl of Carnarvon, 59{{cite book|author1=James Louis Garvin|author2=Franklin Henry Hooper|author3=Warren E. Cox|title=The Encyclopedia Britannica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L3lGAQAAIAAJ|year=1929|publisher=The Encyclopedia Britannica Company|page=891}}
• 12 July - David Pugh, politician, 84{{cite news|title=The Late Mr David Pugh M.P.|url=http://newspapers.library.wales/view/3761575/3761583/77|accessdate=30 November 2016|newspaper=Carmarthen Journal|date=17 October 1890|page=8}}
• 20 July - David Davies "Llandinam", industrialist, 71{{cite web|last1=Bulmer-Thomas|first1=Ivor|title=David Davis, Llandinam (1818-1890), industrialist and Member of Parliament|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-DAVI-DAV-1818|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|accessdate=6 December 2019}}
• 6 August - Thomas Babington Jones, cricketer, 39
• 10 October - Charles Herbert James, politician, 73{{cite DWB|id=s-JAME-HER-1817|title=James, Charles Herbert (1817-1890), M.P.|year=1959|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=30 January 2021|author=Walter Thomas Morgan}}
• 27 October - Enoch Salisbury, barrister, politician and bibliophile, 70{{cite DNB|wstitle=Salisbury, Enoch Robert Gibbon|volume=50}}
• unknown date - John Cambrian Rowland, painter, 70

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