1913 in Wales

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Incumbents

19 February - Suffragette arson attack on a house being built for David Lloyd George near Walton Heath Golf Club in Surrey. Emmeline Pankhurst, in a speech in Cardiff this evening, claims to have incited this and other incidents.^[1]
5 June - The last ship built at Porthmadog, Y Gestiana, is launched; on 4 October she is wrecked on her maiden voyage, on the coast of Nova Scotia.
14 June - Three years after leaving Cardiff on her fateful voyage to the Antarctic, Captain Robert Falcon Scott's ship Terra Nova returns to the port, commanded by Scott's former comrade Teddy Evans.
14 October - Senghenydd Colliery Disaster: 439 men are killed in a mining accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd - the worst accident in British mining history. 1913 is the peak year for coal production in Wales.
27 October - A tornado hits South Wales, killing four people.^[2]
Diplomat William Henry Hoare Vincent is knighted.
Carmarthen Farm Institute is founded - the first of its kind.
Monmouthshire Training College is founded at Caerleon, with Edward Anwyl as its first principal.
School of Mines founded at Treforest, a predecessor of the University of South Wales.

W. H. Davies - Foliage^[3]
Frances Hoggan - American Negro Women During Their First Fifty Years of Freedom
Thomas Gwynn Jones - Cofiant Thomas Gee
Sir John Morris-Jones - Welsh Grammar: Historical and Comparative
Moelona - Teulu Bach Nantoer
Edward Thomas - The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans

Boxing
- 2 June - Bill Beynon wins the British and Empire bantamweight championship.
Rugby Union
- 18 January - Wales are defeated 12–0 by England in a game played at the National Stadium, Cardiff

4 February - Tom Williams, Wales international rugby player and sports administrator, c.52
8 February - James Webb, Wales rugby international, 50
16 February (in Australia) - Lewis Thomas, colliery proprietor and politician
11 March - Godfrey Charles Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, British Army officer, politician and philanthropist, 81
19 March - John Thomas (Pencerdd Gwalia), harpist, 87
30 March - Sidney Herbert, 14th Earl of Pembroke, politician, 60
3 April (in London) - Henry Matthews, 1st Viscount Llandaff, politician, 87
15 April - William Jones, Victoria Cross recipient, c.73
4 June (in London) - Stuart Rendel, 1st Baron Rendel, politician, 78
24 July - Hugh Brython Hughes, children's author, 65^[4]
17 August - Harry Bowen, Wales international rugby player, 49
c. 8 October - John Jones (Coch Bach y Bala), notorious criminal, c.59
6 November - Sir William Henry Preece, electrical engineer, 79
7 November (in Broadstone, Dorset) - Alfred Russel Wallace, scientist, 90
19 December (in South Africa) - Bert Gould, Wales international rugby player, 43

↑ Crawford, Elizabeth (2013-07-04). "We wanted to wake him up: Lloyd George and suffragette militancy". History of Government. Retrieved 2016-11-21.
↑ "The Devastating South Wales Tornado of October 1913". Retrieved 2012-06-28.
↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.
↑ Jones, Gwynn (1983). "Hugh Brython Hughes", in Dewiniaid Difyr. Gwasg Gomer.

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