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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1894 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

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  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd (until 30 October){{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}}

Events

  • 19 February – The first new intermediate school in Wales opens at Caernarfon. Ysgol Syr Hugh Owen is one of the first Welsh medium schools.{{cite book|author=Owen E. Jones|title=The Welsh Intermediate Education Act of 1889: A Centenary Appraisal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xnJLeUel7oEC|year=1990|publisher=Welsh Office|isbn=978-0-7504-0068-8|page=25}}
  • 10 March – T. E. Ellis is appointed Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury in the Gladstone's fourth ministry, and becomes Chief Whip of the Liberal Party.{{cite book|author=Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (London, England)|title=The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ezFWAAAAYAAJ|year=1982|publisher=The Society|page=146}}
  • March/April – In the "Welsh Revolt", MPs Herbert Lewis, David Alfred Thomas, David Lloyd George and Frank Edwards resign the Liberal whip.{{cite book|author=Don M. Cregier|title=Bounder from Wales: Lloyd George's career before the First World War|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AfdzxwEOMjoC|year=1976|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=978-0-8262-0203-1|page=110}}
  • 23 June – A firedamp explosion at Albion Colliery, Cilfynydd, Glamorgan, results in the death of 290 coal miners and 123 horses underground, making it the worst disaster in Welsh mining history to date (it will be exceeded only by that at Senghenydd in 1913).{{cite web|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/coalhouse/sites/mines/pages/albion_colliery.shtml|title=Albion Colliery|publisher=BBC Wales|year=2008|access-date=2010-10-15}}{{cite web|url=http://www.welshcoalmines.co.uk/GlamEast/Albion.htm|title=Albion Colliery Cilfynydd|work=Welsh Coal Mines|access-date=2010-10-15}}
  • August
  • The Prince of Wales attends the National Eisteddfod.
  • Owen Morgan Edwards makes his first report on county schools in Wales [https://web.archive.org/web/20070805061133/http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/InterSchools.html]
  • unknown dates
  • Dissolution of the North Wales Scholarship Association.
  • John Philipps, later 1st Viscount St Davids, resigns as MP for Mid Lanarkshire.
  • Richard Mills the younger establishes the Rhos Herald, a weekly bilingual newspaper, with himself as editor.{{cite book | last = Humphreys | first = Maggie | title = Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland | publisher = Mansell | location = London Herndon, VA | year = 1997 | isbn = 9780720123302 | page=234}}

Arts and literature

=Awards=

National Eisteddfod of Wales – held at Caernarfon

  • Chair – Howell Elvet Lewis, "Hunanaberth"{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair|title=Winners of the Chair|website=National Eisteddfod of Wales|date=3 February 2020}}
  • Crown – Ben Davies, "Tennyson"{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners|title=Winners of the Crown|website=National Eisteddfod of Wales|date=3 February 2020}}

=New books=

==English language==

  • Sir John Rhys – Outlines of the Phonology of the Manx Gaelic{{cite book|author1=Per Sture Ureland|author2=George Broderick|title=Language contact in the British Isles: Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Language Contact in Europe, Douglas, Isle of Man, 1988|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s3mShUTFbUMC&pg=PA56|date=9 May 2011|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-167865-8|pages=56}}

==Welsh language==

  • Evan Thomas Davies (Dyfrig) – Pregethau ac Anerchiadau{{cite book|title=Who's who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mDAaAQAAMAAJ|year=1919|publisher=A. & C. Black|page=627}}
  • W. J. Davis – Hanes Plwyf Llandysul, first publication by Gomer Press, Llandysul
  • Owen Morgan Edwards – Ystraeon o Hanes Cymru{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic|url-access=registration|date=April 1986|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=[https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic/page/168 168]}}
  • Daniel Owen – Gwen Tomos{{cite book|author=Gareth King|title=The Routledge Intermediate Welsh Reader|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z2qu23jLoQQC&pg=PA133|date=2 May 2013|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-12043-6|pages=133}}
  • Sarah Winifred Parry – Sioned (serialization begins){{cite book|last=Aaron|first=Jane|title=Nineteenth-Century Women's Writing in Wales: Nation, Gender and Identity|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h0iuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA183|year=2010|publisher=University of Wales Press|location=Cardiff, Wales|isbn=978-0-7083-2287-1|page=183}}

=Music=

  • Sir Henry Walford Davies – Sonata No. 1 in E minor, for Piano and Violin{{cite book|author=Henry Cope Colles|title=Walford Davies, a biography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lzNGAQAAIAAJ|year=1947|publisher=Oxford University Press|page=28}}
  • Spillers Records is founded in Cardiff; by 2010 it will be regarded the world's oldest surviving record shop.

Sport

Births

  • 14 March – Ben Beynon, Welsh rugby union international and Swansea Town player (died 1969)
  • 21 March – William Hubert Vaughan, public servant (died 1959)
  • 16 May – Sir Leonard Twiston Davies, patron of the arts (died 1953){{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-DAVI-TWI-1894|title=Davies, Sir Leonard Twiston (1894–1953), patron of the arts and of folk life studies|author=Iorwerth Peate|author-link=Iorwerth Peate|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=10 December 2019}}
  • 23 June – Prince Edward (later Prince of Wales, Edward VIII then Duke of Windsor; died 1972)
  • 4 July – Ambrose Bebb, author and politician (died 1955){{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-BEBB-AMB-1894|title=Bebb, William Ambrose|author=Thomas Parry|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=10 December 2019}}
  • 10 July – Emrys Hughes, politician (died 1969){{cite book|author=A. Thomas Lane|title=Biographical Dictionary of European Labor Leaders|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VlR8YCE8lkQC&pg=PA432|year=1995|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-26456-6|pages=432}}
  • 31 July – Fred Keenor, footballer (died 1972)
  • 23 August – Gareth Hughes, actor (died 1965)
  • 27 August – Ike Fowler, dual-code international rugby union player (died 1981)
  • 22 October – Llew Edwards, featherweight boxer (died 1965)
  • 30 October – Peter Warlock, composer (died 1930){{cite book|author=Ian Alfred Copley|title=The music of Peter Warlock: a critical survey|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pLAHAQAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=D. Dobson|page=1|isbn=9780234772492}}

Deaths

  • 24 February – John Roberts, politician, 58{{cite book | last = Stenton | first = Michael | title = Who's who of British members of Parliament : a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons based on annual volumes of Dod's Parliamentary companion and other sources | publisher = Harvester Press Humanities Press | location = Hassocks, Sussex, Eng. Atlantic Highlands, N.J | year = 1976 | isbn = 9780855273156 | page=305}}
  • 8 March – John Bickerton Morgan, geologist, 34{{cite book|author=Thomas Mardy Rees|title=Notable Welshmen (1700–1900): ... with Brief Notes, in Chronological Order, and Authorities|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sXM_AQAAMAAJ|year=1908|publisher=Herald Office|page=435}}
  • 20 March – John Davies (Taliesin Hiraethog), poet, 52{{cite DWB|title=John Davies|id=s-DAVI-JOH-1841|year=1959|publisher=National Library of Wales|last=Williams|first=Griffith John|access-date= 4 July 2017}}
  • 18 June – David Davies, Australian politician, about 54{{Australian Dictionary of Biography |first=Kerreen M. |last=Reiger |title=Davies, David Mortimer (1840–1894) |id2=davies-david-mortimer-3373 |accessdate=6 December 2013}}
  • 30 October – David Griffith (Clwydfardd), poet, 93
  • 4 November – Idris Williams, 59{{cite news|title=Sudden Death at Porth|url=http://welshnewspapers.llgc.org.uk/en/page/view/3352320/ART68|access-date=12 March 2014|newspaper=South Wales Daily Post|date=6 November 1894}}
  • 28 November – Henry Hussey Vivian, 1st Baron Swansea, 73{{cite DNB|wstitle=Vivian, Henry Hussey}}
  • 13 December – Morgan Morgan, politician, 61{{cite news|title=Death of a Welsh Knight – Sir Morgan Morgan suddenly expires – widespread sorrow in South Wales |url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3369774/3369781 |work=Weekly Mail |place=Wales and the West of England |page=7 |date=15 December 1894 |via=Welsh Newspapers Online }}
  • 25 December – Arthur Hill-Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, 75{{cite book|title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_Pf8cAAAAYAAJ|year=1914|publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited|page=1903}}
  • 30 December – David Thomas, preacher and publisher, 81Thomas Rowland Roberts, Eminent Welshmen (1908), p. 507-508.

See also

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