:1914 in Wales

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• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed{{cite DWB |last1=Rhys |first1=James Ednyfed |title=Rees, Evan (Dyfed; 1850-1923), Calvinistic Methodist minister, poet, and archdruid of Wales |id=s-REES-EVA-1850 |publisher=National Library of Wales |access-date=2 August 2018 |date=1959}}

• Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
• Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd 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 William Gwynne Hughes
• 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 |year=2016 |isbn=9781351545471 |location=Abingdon, Oxon |page=149}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – William Glynne Charles Gladstone{{London Gazette |issue=28512 |date=11 July 1911 |page=5168}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
• Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet{{cite DWB |last1=Davies |first1=Sir William Llewelyn |id=s-WILL-BRO-1800 |title=Williams family, of Bron Eryri, later called Castell Deudraeth, Meirionnydd |access-date=30 January 2020}}
• Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen{{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 – John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids
• 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{{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 – Joshua Pritchard Hughes{{cite DWB |id=s-HUGH-JOS-1807 |title=Hughes, Joshua (1807-1889), bishop |first=William Thomas |last=Havard |author-link=William Havard |access-date=26 October 2021}}
• 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}}

• 14 January - The first trolleybuses in Wales come into operation, in Aberdare.
• 23 February - Light cruiser HMS Cordelia is launched at Pembroke Dock.
• 11 March - A Welsh Home Rule Bill is introduced by Edward T. John, MP for East Denbighshire; it fails.{{cite book|author=John Kendle|title=Ireland and the Federal Solution: The Debate over the United Kingdom Constitution, 1870-1920|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObtgHnfodg0C&pg=PA273|date=1 January 1989|publisher=McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP|isbn=978-0-7735-6186-1|pages=273}}
• 4 April - Ystradfellte Reservoir inaugurated.
• 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.{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}
• 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.{{London Gazette |issue=28983|date=20 November 1914 |page=9663|supp=y}}
• 14 November - Light cruiser HMS Carysfort is launched at Pembroke Dock.{{cite book|author=L. Phillips|title=Pembroke Dockyard and the Old Navy: A Bicentennial History|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sQSTAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT394|date=3 February 2014|publisher=History Press|isbn=978-0-7509-5520-1|pages=394}}
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• A women's teacher training college opens at Barry; a men's equivalent opens at Caerleon.{{cite book|author=Great Britain. Department of Education and Science|title=Education: Being the Report of the Department of Education and Science|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=K0Y_AAAAYAAJ|year=1958|publisher=H.M. Stationery Office|page=125}}
• 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.{{cite DWB|id=s2-THOM-JAM-1867|title=Thomas, Sir William James (1867-1945), Baronet, coalowner, philanthropist|author=Owen Picton Davies|access-date=27 November 2018}}
• Pen-coed Castle is restored by D. A. Thomas, Viscount Rhondda.{{cite book|author=Academi Gymreig|title=The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-ZEUAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1953-6|page=512}}

• January - The monthly periodical Welsh Outlook is founded by Thomas Jones (T. J.).{{cite web|url=https://journals.library.wales/view/1311205/1311206/0#?xywh=-171%2C-571%2C3437%2C5023|title=Welsh outlook a monthly journal|website=National Library of Wales|access-date=27 November 2018}}

• National Eisteddfod of Wales - not held{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair?_ga=2.196744876.1631880097.1570104027-963760572.1570104027|title=Winners of the Chair|website=National Eisteddfod of Wales|date=3 October 2019}}{{Dead link|date=February 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes}}

• Rhoda Broughton - Concerning a Vow{{cite book|author=Rhoda Broughton|title=Concerning a Vow|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2146AQAAMAAJ|year=1914|publisher=Tauchnitz}}
• Moelwyn - Caniadau Moelwyn, vol. 4{{cite book|author1=Meic Stephens|title=The Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P51iAAAAMAAJ|year=1986|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-211586-7|page=269}}
• Bertrand Russell - Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy{{cite book|title=A Bibliography of Philosophy: A Partial List of Holdings in the USMA Library|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_FTUWlwc6IIC&pg=PA40|year=1972|publisher=U. S. Military Academy|pages=40}}
• T. E. Ellis - Pont Orewyn{{Cite DWB|id=s2-SCOT-EVE-1880|title=Scott-Ellis, Thomas Evelyn (1880 - 1946)|fewer-links=yes|access-date=16 June 2014}}

• T. Gwynn Jones - Caradog yn Rhufain{{cite book|title=Y Gymraes: cyhoeddiad misol darluniadol i ferched Cymru|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sbsZLfk9A1IC|year=1913|publisher=E.W. Evans.}}

• David John de Lloyd - Gwlad fy Nhadau (cantata)
• Ivor Novello - "Keep the Home Fires Burning"home fire burning

{{cite book|last=Fuld|first=James J.|title=The book of world-famous music: classical, popular and folk|page=316|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EVninY59ul0C&pg=PA316|year=2000|access-date=3 March 2010|publisher=Courier Dover Publications|isbn=978-0-486-41475-1}}

• William Rhys-Herbert - The Bo'sn's Bride (operetta based on a play by Maude Elizabeth Inch){{cite book|author=Frances Diodato Bzowski|title=American women playwrights, 1900-1930: a checklist|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cogUAQAAIAAJ|year=1992|publisher=Greenwood Press|isbn=978-0-313-24238-0|page=189}}

• Welsh-descended Harold Lloyd begins his film career.
• Wild Wales {{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/arts/sites/film/pages/culture.shtml|title=Welsh people and culture in film|date=27 October 2008|website=BBC Wales Arts|access-date=12 December 2020}}

• 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 targeted 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 win the match, and the Welsh pack are 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){{cite book|author1=Patricia Burgess|author2=Roland Turner|title=The Annual Obituary|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8EsYAAAAIAAJ|year=1989|publisher=St James Press|page=164}}
• 12 March - Cliff Jones, Wales international rugby captain (d. 1990)
• 21 March - Sir Goronwy Daniel, academic and civil servant (d. 2003){{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=Welsh Lives - Gone but Not Forgotten|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZRsvDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT41|date=20 September 2012|publisher=Y Lolfa|isbn=978-1-84771-605-7|pages=41}}
• 23 April - Glyn Daniel, archaeologist and television presenter (d. 1986){{cite book|author=|title=Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_U6vCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA427|date=25 December 2015|publisher=Springer|isbn=978-1-349-81366-7|pages=427}}
• 18 May - Louis Ford, footballer
• 24 May
• Sir Granville Beynon, physicist, (d. 1996)
• Harry Parr Davies, composer and songwriter (d. 1955)
• 9 September - Alexander Cordell, novelist (d. 1997){{cite book|author=R. Reginald|title=Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature Vol 2|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=L25ycEzuXxIC&pg=PA864|date=1 September 2010|publisher=Wildside Press LLC|isbn=978-0-941028-77-6|pages=864}}
• 12 September - Desmond Llewelyn, actor (d. 1999){{cite book|author=Ann Palmer|title=Letters to the Dead: Things I Wish I'd Said|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MyTdAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA169|date=20 June 2014|publisher=CCB Publishing|isbn=978-1-77143-126-2|pages=169}}
• 22 October - David Tecwyn Lloyd, author (d. 1992){{cite DWB|id=s8-LLOY-TEC-1914|title=Lloyd, David Tecwyn (1914-1992), literary critic, author, educationalist|author=Ieuan Parri|fewer-links=yes|access-date=9 October 2019}}
• 27 October - Dylan Thomas, poet (d. 1953){{cite book|author=James A. Davies|title=Dylan Thomas’s Swansea, Gower and Laugharne|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MWmuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT15|date=15 February 2014|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-1-78316-133-1|pages=15}}
• 21 November - Charles Fisher, poet (d. 2006){{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/charles-fisher-6109809.html|title=Charles Fisher|date=6 February 2006|website=The Independent|access-date=3 April 2022}}
• 2 December - Russell Taylor, Wales international rugby player
• 7 December - Bryan Hopkin, economist (d. 2009){{cite book|title=The International Who's Who 1992-93|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zEp1LT7dQMoC|date=1 August 1992|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-946653-84-3|page=737}}
• date unknown - Norah Isaac, educationalist (died 2003)

• 22 February - Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron Wimborne, 78{{cite EB1922 |title=Wimborne, Ivor Bertie Guest, 1st Baron |volume=32 |page=1021|url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c0/EB1922_-_Volume_32.djvu/page1059-1024px-EB1922_-_Volume_32.djvu.jpg}}
• 4 May - Rowland Griffiths, rugby player, 28 (typhoid)
• 17 May - John L. Griffiths, US lawyer and diplomat of Welsh parentage, 58{{cite news |title=Griffiths Funeral Monday; Services for Consul General to be Held in First Presbyterian Church |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1914/05/30/archives/griffiths-funeral-monday-services-for-consul-general-to-be-held-in.html|newspaper=New York Times |date=May 30, 1914 |access-date=2011-03-11}}
• 16 June - John Hughes (Landore), composer, 42 (cerebral haemorrhage){{cite web|url=https://www.calonlan.wales/john-hughes|title=John Hughes|website=The Calon Lan Society|access-date=9 October 2019}}{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|author-link=Meic Stephens|title=The new companion to the literature of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WoMYAAAAIAAJ|date=23 September 1998|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1383-1|page=82}}
• 18 June - Abel Davies, rugby union player, 53?
• 21 June - Morgan Bransby Williams, engineer, 89{{cite web|url=https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Morgan_Bransby_Williams|title=Morgan Bransby Williams - 1914 Obituary|website=Grace's Guide to British Industrial History|access-date=27 November 2018}}
• 23 July - Harry Evans, conductor and composer, 41{{cite DWB|id=s-EVAN-HAR-1873|title=Evans, Harry (1873-1914), musician|author=Robert David Griffith|fewer-links=yes|access-date=9 October 2019}}
• 8 August - Sir Edward Anwyl, academic, 48{{cite DWB|id=s-ANWY-EDW-1866|title=Anwyl, Sir Edward (1866-1914), Celtic scholar|author=Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams|fewer-links=yes|access-date=11 June 2019}}
• 22 August (in Swanley) - James Dickson Innes, artist, 27 (tuberculosis){{cite book|title=Art and Artists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eELrAAAAMAAJ|year=1977|publisher=Hansom Books|page=34}}
• 27 August - William Lewis, 1st Baron Merthyr, 77{{cite DWB|id=s-LEWI-THO-1837|title=Lewis, Sir William Thomas (1837-1914), first Baron Merthyr of Senghenydd, coal magnate|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|fewer-links=yes|access-date=11 June 2019}}
• 17 September - Shadrach Pryce, clergyman and educationalist, 81{{cite DWB|id=s-PRYC-JOH-1828|title=Pryce, John (1828-1903), dean of Bangor|fewer-links=yes|access-date=11 June 2019}}
• 2 October - Jack Hughes, footballer, 59{{cite book |title=Who's Who of Welsh International Soccer Players |last1=Davies |first1=Gareth |last2=Garland |first2=Ian |year=1991|publisher=Bridge Books |isbn=1-872424-11-2|page=90}}
• 22 October - William Morgan, cricketer, 51/2
• 27 October - Sir T. Marchant Williams, lawyer and author, 68/9{{cite DWB|id=s-WILL-MAR-1845|title=Williams, Sir Thomas Marchant (1845-1914), barrister and writer|author=Edward Morgan Humphreys|fewer-links=yes|access-date=9 October 2019}}

• 1914 in Ireland

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