:1900 in Wales

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• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn{{cite book|author=Hywel Teifi Edwards|title=The Eisteddfod|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K81RDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT39|date=20 July 2016|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-1-78316-914-6|pages=39}}

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
• 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 – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet{{cite book|title=The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion|publisher=The Society|year=1986|page=63}}
• 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 – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne{{cite web|url=https://cylchgronau.llyfrgell.cymru/view/2043441/2044175/159|title=Transactions of the Liverpool Welsh National Society 1891-92|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=15 March 2022}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar{{cite book | author=Cyril James Oswald Evans|title=Monmouthshire, Its History and Topography|publisher=W. Lewis (printers)|year=1953| page=190}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor{{cite DWB|id=s-CAMP-VAU-1847|title=Campbell, Frederick Archibald Vaughan, viscount Emlyn (1847-1898), earl Cawdor (1898-1911)|author=Glyn Roberts|year=1959|access-date=20 March 2022}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank{{cite book|title=Whitaker's Almanack|editor=Joseph Whitaker|publisher=Whitaker's Almanack|year=1913|page=847}}

• Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams (from 2 February){{cite book|title=Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic History of Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage|publisher=Burke's Peerage Limited|year=1925|page=2437}}
• Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis{{cite book|author=David Henry Williams|title=Catalogue of Seals in the National Museum of Wales: Seal dies, Welsh seals, papal bullae|publisher=National Museum of Wales|year=1993|page=75}}
• Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)Who was Who 1897–2007, 1991, {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}}
• Bishop of St Davids – John Owen{{cite DWB|id=s-OWEN-JOH-1854|title=Owen, John (1854-1926), bishop|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|year=1959|access-date=19 March 2022}}

• 6 January – In Merionethshire, for the first time in centuries, the sword of the Gorsedd bards is solemnly unsheathed. "The chief bard invoked the blessing of God on British arms in South Africa, and announced that the sword would not be sheathed again till the triumph of the forces of righteousness over the hordes of evil."{{citation|title=The Annual Register|year=1900|page=2}}
• 3 January – Royal Yacht Victoria and Albert almost capsizes while being floated out of dry dock at Pembroke Dock on completion of her construction.{{Cite web |url=http://www.pembrokedock.org/h_dockyard_2.htm |title=Pembroke Dock Community Website |access-date=2011-02-22 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207042402/http://www.pembrokedock.org/h_dockyard_2.htm |archive-date=2012-02-07 |url-status=dead }}
• 4 April – An anarchist shoots at Albert Edward, Prince of Wales, during his visit to Belgium for the birthday celebrations of the King of Belgium.
• 14 May – A pedestrian tunnel is opened under the River Ely from Cardiff to Penarth Dock.{{cite web|title=Cardiff Time Line|url=http://www.cardiffians.co.uk/timeline.shtml|work=Cardiffians|accessdate=2015-05-24}}
• June – The Royal Welch Fusiliers form the largest contingent in the multinational coalition forces helping to relieve the siege of Peking during the Boxer Rebellion.
• 1 June – Colwyn Bay Pier opened.
• 9 July – The Dowlais Iron Company and Arthur Keen's Patent Nut and Bolt Company merged to form Guest, Keen & Co. Ltd.
• August – Taff Vale Railway strike.
• 16 September – The German steamship, Stormarn, and the Gordon Castle collide in fog in Cardigan Bay with the loss of 20 lives.{{cite web|url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3426755/3426761/152/gordon%20castle%20collision%20in%20cardigan%20bay|title=Collision in Cardigan Bay|publisher=The Cardiff Times|date=22 September 1900|website=National Library of Wales|access-date=22 March 2022}}
• 26 September - 24 October – United Kingdom general election, in which:
• Keir Hardie is elected for Merthyr Tydfil, one of the first Labour MPs in Britain;{{cite book|author=Raymond Grant|title=The Parliamentary History of Glamorgan, 1542-1976|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T-IgAAAAMAAJ|year=1978|publisher=C. Davies|isbn=978-0-7154-0381-5|page=73}}
• Frederick Rutherfoord Harris becomes Conservative MP for Monmouth Boroughs;
• Francis Edwards regains Radnorshire for the Liberals;
• George Newnes becomes MP for Swansea Town;
• Edward James Reed regains Cardiff;
• Sir Henry Morton Stanley retires from Parliament.
• 7 November – The steamer City of Vienna sinks off Swansea with the loss of 20 crew members. There is one survivor.
• 22 November – Beginning of the long-running Penrhyn Quarry industrial dispute.{{cite web|url=https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/penrhyn-castle/features/penrhyn-castle-and-the-great-penrhyn-quarry-strike-1900-03|title=Penrhyn Castle and the Great Penrhyn Quarry Strike|website=National Trust|access-date=25 August 2021}}
• 28 December – The barque Primrose Hill is wrecked on South Stack off Holyhead, with the loss of 33 lives.{{cite web|title=The Shipwreck of the Primrose Hill in 1900 off South Stack, Holyhead|url=http://www.anglesey.info/primrosehill.htm|work=Anglesey Môn Information Website|accessdate=2011-02-22|archive-date=20 October 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101020023449/http://anglesey.info/primrosehill.htm|url-status=dead}}
• The 'Long Bridge' at Risca, formerly part of the Monmouthshire Canal, is demolished.
• The Aberdare Canal is closed as economically unviable.{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons|title=Parliamentary Papers: 1850-1908|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OQ1EAQAAMAAJ|year=1908|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|page=269}}
• A small zoo in Victoria Park, Cardiff, opens.
• The United States census figures show a Welsh immigrant population totalling 93,744, plus 173,416 children — an all-time high.

• National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Liverpool
• Chair – John Owen Williams, "Y Bugail"{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair |archive-date=13 February 2021 |title=Winners of the Chair |website=National Eisteddfod of Wales |access-date=18 February 2021}}
• Crown – John Thomas Job, "Williams Pantycelyn"{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners|title=Winners of the Crown|website=National Eisteddfod of Wales|date=12 December 2019}}

• Owen Morgan Edwards – Tro yn Llydaw
• David Brynmor Jones and John Rhys – The Welsh People
• Allen Raine – Garthowen{{Cite web |url=https://biography.wales/article/s-PUDD-ADA-1836|title=Puddicombe, Anne Adelisa ('Allen Raine'; 1836 – 1908), novelist {{!}} Dictionary of Welsh Biography |website=biography.wales |access-date=25 August 2021}}
• Ernest Rhys – The Whistling Maid
• R. Silyn Roberts and W. J. Gruffydd – Telynegion
• Bertrand Russell – A Critical Exposition of the Philosophy of Leibniz

• Sir Walford Davies – Four Songs of Innocence{{cite web|url=https://britishmusiccollection.org.uk/score/four-songs-innocence|title=Four Songs of Innocence|website=British Music Collection|access-date=12 December 2019}}

• 24 February – Association football – Wales lose 2–0 to Ireland in Llandudno.{{cite book|last=Hayes|first=Dean|year=2006|title=Northern Ireland International Football Facts|publisher=Appletree Press|location=Belfast|isbn=0-86281-874-5|page=156}}
• Rugby union – Wales win the Triple Crown.
• Yachting – Cardiff Yacht Club is formed in Butetown.

• 18 January – Idris Jones Wales rugby union international (died 1971)
• 23 January – William Ifor Jones, conductor (died 1988){{cite book|author1=Alfred Victor Frankenstein|author2=Sigmund Gottfried Spaeth|author3=John Townsend Hinton Mize|title=The International who is who in Music|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y_JLAAAAYAAJ|year=1951|publisher=Who is Who in Music, Incorporated, Limited|page=242}}
• 9 February – David Williams, historian (died 1978)
• 19 April – Richard Hughes, novelist (died 1976){{cite book|author=Olive Ely Hart|title=The Drama in Modern Wales: A Brief History of Welsh Play-writing from 1900 to the Present Day|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=goM0AAAAMAAJ|year=1928|publisher=University of Pennsylvania|page=44}}
• 2 June – David Wynne, composer (died 1983){{cite book|author=Gerald Norris|title=A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KcMXAQAAIAAJ|date=June 1981|publisher=David & Charles|isbn=978-0-7153-7845-8|page=295}}
• 30 June – Idwal Jones, politician (died 1982)
• 27 August – Frank Moody, British boxing champion (died 1963)
• 2 September – Bobby Delahay, Wales rugby union captain (died 1978)
• 1 November – Eiluned Lewis, writer (died 1979)
• 12 November – Thomas Hollingdale, Wales rugby union international (died 1978)
• 28 November – Trevor Roberts, 2nd Baron Clwyd, lawyer (died 1987)
• date unknown – Horace Williams, footballer (died 1960)

• 20 January – R. D. Blackmore, English novelist of Anglo-Welsh parentage, 74{{cite book|author=Max Keith Sutton|title=R. D. Blackmore|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SldaAAAAMAAJ|year=1979|publisher=Twayne Publishers|isbn=978-0-8057-6756-8|page=12}}
• 22 January – David E. Hughes, musician and professor of music, 68
• 26 February – Daniel Grey, doctor and footballer, 51
• 22 March – Thomas Charles Edwards, Presbyterian leader, 62
• 10 May – Philip Ellis, Tractarian, 77
• 14 June – Catherine Gladstone (née Glynne), wife of British Prime Minister, William Ewart Gladstone, 88{{cite book|author=Anne Isba|title=Gladstone and Women|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gaxDs8_oz_QC&pg=PA211|date=24 August 2006|publisher=A&C Black|isbn=978-1-85285-471-3|pages=211}}
• 19 September – Anne Beale, novelist, 84
• 9 October – John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, owner of Cardiff Castle and Castell Coch, 53{{cite book|author=John Davies|title=Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mPYgAAAAMAAJ|year=1981|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-0761-8|page=77}}
• 12 December (in Edinburgh) – William Williams, veterinary surgeon, 68

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