1916 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 |accessdate=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 – Henry Gladstone, later Baron Gladstone{{cite book|author=Ivor Bulmer-Thomas|title=Gladstone of Hawarden: A Memoir of Henry Neville, Lord Gladstone of Hawarden|publisher=Murray|year=1936|page=197}}
• 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
• 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}}

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• 1 January
• The Port Eynon life-boat capsizes and three crew members die.
• The Royal laryngologist John Milsom Rees is knighted.{{cite DWB|id=s2-REES-MIL-1866|title=Rees, Sir John Milsom (1866-1952), surgeon and laryngologist|author=Emyr Wyn Jones|year=2001|access-date=18 June 2024}}
• 8 January – The Apostolic Church in Wales is established.
• 2 February – Submarine {{HMS|J4}} is launched at Pembroke Dock.{{Cite web |title=HMAS J4 |url=http://www.navy.gov.au/hmas-j5 |access-date=2011-03-13 |publisher=Royal Australian Navy}}
• 7 February – The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cardiff is established.
• 1 March – Transfer of the National Library of Wales at Aberystwyth into its purpose-built premises is completed.{{cite book|author-link=David Jenkins (librarian)|first=David|last=Jenkins|title=A Refuge in Peace and War: The National Library of Wales to 1952|location=Aberystwyth|publisher=National Library of Wales|year=2002|isbn=1-86225-034-0|page=168}}
• 3 March – Light cruiser HMS Cambrian is launched at Pembroke Dock.{{cite book|editor1-last=Gray|editor1-first=Randal|title=Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1906–1921 |year=1985 |location=Annapolis, Maryland|publisher=Naval Institute Press |isbn=0-85177-245-5 |name-list-style=amp |chapter=Great Britain and Empire Forces|first1=Antony|last1=Preston|author-link=Antony Preston|page=59}}
• 31 May–1 June – Hugh Evan-Thomas distinguishes himself in the Battle of Jutland;{{cite book |title=The Rules of the Game: Jutland and British Naval Command |author=Andrew Gordon |author-link=Andrew Gordon (naval historian)|publisher=John Murray |year=1996 |location=London |ISBN=0-7195-5076-9}} he is later knighted.
• 1 June – Miners' wages in the South Wales Coalfield are increased by 15%.{{cite news|title=The Miners' Wages|newspaper=Western Mail|location=Cardiff|date=1916-06-10|page=4}}
• 11 June – Frongoch internment camp is used as a place of imprisonment for approximately 1,800 Irishmen involved with the Easter Rising.{{cite web|title=Frongoch|url=http://www.easter-rising-frongoch.wales/|accessdate=2018-01-08}}
• 4 July – Royal Welch Fusiliers Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon attacks a German trench single-handed, and records the outcome in his memoirs.
• 7–12 July – The 38th (Welsh) Division loses so many men in the Mametz Wood engagement during the Battle of the Somme that it is unable to re-group for a year.
• 12 July – Railway worker James Dally is awarded the Edward Medal by King George V for his actions in saving a colleague from falling from the Crumlin Viaduct.
• July – Jimmy Thomas becomes General Secretary of the National Union of Railwaymen, which he had been instrumental in forming.
• October – T. E. Lawrence is sent into the desert to report on the Arab nationalist movements.
• 7 November – Charles Evans Hughes loses narrowly to Woodrow Wilson in the United States presidential election.
• November – Christopher Williams visits the scene of the Welsh losses at Mametz Wood and later paints his famous The Welsh at Mametz Wood at the request of David Lloyd George.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-36686484|title=Mametz Wood: The Welsh attack and its legacy|date=4 July 2016|website=BBC News|access-date=26 August 2018}}
• 1 December – Government takes control of mines in the South Wales Coalfield.{{cite news|title=Government Takes Welsh Coal Mines|newspaper=The New York Times|date=1916-11-30|page=1}}
• 2 December – Miners' wages in the South Wales Coalfield are again increased by 15%.{{cite news|title=Miners' Wages|newspaper=The Labour Voice|date=1915-12-09|accessdate=2022-09-27|page=1|url=https://newspapers.library.wales/view/3978741}}
• 7 December
• David Lloyd George is the first (and, as of a century later, only) Welshman to become Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.{{cite book |first=Bentley |last=Gilbert |title=David Lloyd George: A Political Life: Organizer of Victory, 1912–1916 |publisher=Ohio State University Press |year=1992}}
• David Alfred Thomas is created Baron Rhondda. He is appointed President of the Local Government Board.South Wales Daily News, 4 July 1918

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Aberystwyth)
• Chair - J. Ellis Williams, "Ystrad Fflur"{{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}}
• Crown - withheld

• Llewelyn Powys and John Cowper Powys - Confessions of Two Brothers
• Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan) - Tair Stori Fer

• 22 April – Edmund Gwenn makes his screen debut in The Real Thing at Last.

• Boxing: 14 February – Jimmy Wilde wins the British flyweight title at Liverpool.

• 26 February - Joan Strothers (later Lady Curran), scientist (died 1999){{Cite ODNB|id=71958|title=Joan Elizabeth Curran, Lady Curran (1916–1999) |first=Bill |last=Fletcher |ref=none}}
• 2 March - Eddie Watkins, rugby player (died 1995)
• 1 May - Glenn Ford, Welsh-Canadian actor (died 2006){{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/leading-man-glenn-ford-dies-at-90-414111.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/leading-man-glenn-ford-dies-at-90-414111.html |archive-date=1 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Leading man Glenn Ford dies at 90|date=31 August 2006|website=The Independent|access-date=26 August 2018}}{{cbignore}}
• 6 May - Ted Peterson, British baseball player (died 2005)
• 7 May - Huw Wheldon, broadcaster (died 1986){{cite book|title=Journal of the Royal Society of Arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lD9QAAAAYAAJ|year=1985|publisher=Society|page=340}}
• 8 May - Sylvia Sleigh, painter (died 2010){{cite book|editor-last=Gaze|editor-first=Delia|title=Dictionary of Women Artists|volume=2|chapter=Sleigh, Sylvia|author-last=Brown|author-first=Betty Ann|publisher=Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers|location=London|year=1997|pages=1280–1281}}
• 22 May - Rupert Davies, actor (died 1976)
• 3 July - Nigel Heseltine, writer (died 1995){{cite book|author=D. H. Lawrence|title=The First 'Women in Love'|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2002|ISBN=9780521007092|page=464}}
• 23 August - Willie Davies, Wales international rugby union and league player (died 2002)
• 29 August - Rhydwen Williams, poet, novelist and minister (died 1997){{cite book|author=Donald Evans|title=Rhydwen Williams|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G0AcAQAAIAAJ|date=16 December 1991|publisher=University of Wales Press|page=6}}
• 13 September - Roald Dahl, novelist (died 1990)Philip Howard, "Dahl, Roald (1916–1990)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004.
• 14 September - Cledwyn Hughes, politician (died 2001){{cite web|last1=Jones|first1=David Lewis|title=Cledwyn Hughes, Baron Cledwyn of Penrhos|url=https://biography.wales/article/s8-HUGH-CLE-1916|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|accessdate=7 June 2019}}
• 24 September - W. J. Gruffydd (Elerydd), poet and Archdruid (died 2011){{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/wj-gruffydd-writer-who-helped-keep-alive-the-welsh-tradition-of-lsquo-country-poets-rsquo-2316933.html|title=WJ Gruffydd: Writer who helped keep alive the Welsh tradition|date=20 July 2011|website=The Independent|location=London|access-date=11 May 2022}}
• 31 October - Stan Trick, cricketer (died 1995)

• 12 March - Llywarch Reynolds, solicitor and Celtic scholar, 72{{cite DWB|id=s-REYN-OWA-1814|title=Reynolds, Jonathan Owain (Nathan Dyfed, 1814–1891), author|year=1959|last=Williams|first=Edward Ivor |access-date=10 March 2009}}
• 14 March - Lou Phillips, Wales international rugby player, 38 (killed in action){{cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/world-war-one-wales-rugby-7166621|title=World War One: The Wales rugby internationals who died on the battlefield|date=25 May 2014|author=Robin Turner|website=WalesOnline|access-date=14 October 2019}}
• 18 March - David Cuthbert Thomas ("Dick Tiltwood"), soldier, 21 (killed in action){{cite journal|title='Little Tommy': 16th June 1895 – 18th March 1916|author=Anne Marsh Penton|journal=Siegfried's Journal|pages=9–17|publisher=Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship|issn=1758-5856}}
• 14 April - Charlie Pritchard, Wales international rugby player, 32 (killed in action)
• May - John Griffiths, mathematician, 79
• 5 June - James Williams, footballer, 32 (killed in action)
• 26 June - Henry Allan Rolls, younger brother and heir presumptive of 2nd Baron Llangattock, 44{{cite book|author=George Edward Cokayne|title=The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom: Lindley to Moate|publisher=St. Catherine Press Limited|year=1932|page=99}}
• 27 June - Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), writer and temperance activist, 78{{cite DWB|id=s-REES-JAN-1839|title=REES, SARAH JANE (Cranogwen; 1839-1916), schoolmistress, poet, editor, temperance advocate|year=1959|publisher=National Library of Wales|author=William Llewelyn Davies|author-link=William Llewelyn Davies|access-date=8 February 2019}}
• 7 July - Dick Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 32 (killed in action at Mametz Wood, during the Somme)
• 12 July - Johnnie Williams, Wales international rugby player, 34 (died of wounds received at Mametz, on the Somme)
• 14 July - David Watts, Wales international rugby player, 30 (killed in action)
• 30 July - Eveline Willett Cunnington, social reformer in New Zealand, 67{{DNZB|title=Eveline Willett Cunnington|first=Roberta|last=Nicholls|id=3c44|access-date=23 April 2017}}
• 3 September - Horace Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 26 (killed in action)
• 11 September - Thomas Lemuel James, Welsh-American banker and U.S. Postmaster-General, 85{{cite book |author=Sobel, Robert |url=https://archive.org/details/biographicaldire00sobe |title=Biographical Directory of the United States Executive Branch, 1774-1989 |date=1990-07-24 |publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group |isbn=0-313-26593-3 |display-authors=etal |url-access=registration}}
• 28 September (in Bath, Somerset) - Richard Thomas, industrialist, 78{{cite DWB|id=s1-THOM-RIC-1838|title=THOMAS, RICHARD (1838-1916), industrialist|year=1959|publisher=National Library of Wales|author=Watkin William Price|access-date=8 February 2019}}
• 7 October - Leigh Richmond Roose, footballer, 38 (killed in action){{cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/75199170/ROOSE,%20LEIGH%20RICHMOND|title=Casualty Details|first=Reading Room|last=Manchester}}
• 11 October - David Richard Thomas, clergyman and historian, 83{{cite DWB|id=s-THOM-RIC-1833 |title=Thomas, David Richard (1833–1916), cleric and historian |last=Jenkins|first=Robert Thomas|author-link=Robert Thomas Jenkins|access-date=5 November 2008}}
• 31 October - John Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock, 46 (killed in action)Obituary, The Times 2 November 1916; Issue 41314
• 12 November - Sir Walter Morgan, 1st Baronet, banker and Lord Mayor of London, 85 {{cite DWB|id=s-MORG-VAU-1831|title=MORGAN, Sir WALTER VAUGHAN (1831-1916), lord mayor of London|year=1959|publisher=National Library of Wales|author=Robert Thomas Jenkins|access-date=8 February 2019}}
• 14 November - William Davies, footballer, 61

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