List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1911 to Wales and its people .
Incumbents
Events
February–April - A Welsh Nationalist League is founded, based in Caernarfonshire , to campaign for Home Rule .[ 18]
23 June - The future Edward VIII is created Prince of Wales by his father, George V .July - Dockers' strike action at Cardiff culminates in rioting. Five hundred troops are drafted into the area.
13 July - Prince Edward (later Edward VIII ) is invested as Prince of Wales in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle , devised by David Lloyd George .14 July - New buildings of the University College of North Wales, Bangor , opened.23 July - King George V and Queen Mary lay the foundation stone of the new National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth .[ 19] 29 July - Mawddwy Railway formally reopened, worked by the Cambrian Railways .[ 20] August - Rioting in Bargoed , Brynamman , Ebbw Vale and Tredegar . Jewish-owned businesses are attacked and troops brought in.
19 August - Llanelli riots : During demonstrations in support of a national railway strike (17–20 August), two men are shot dead by soldiers of the Worcestershire Regiment in Llanelli . Magistrates' homes are attacked and four more of the crowd are killed outright when explosive material stored on railway property ignites.[ 21] 21 August –5 December - A strike at the British Wagon Company's Swansea works leads to rioting in September–October.[ 22] [ 23] [ 24] 4 September - Members of the South Wales Miners' Federation return to work after a ten-month strike against colliery owners in the Cambrian Combine which triggered the Tonypandy riots , having accepted the 2s 3d per ton payment rate negotiated prior to the strike by William Abraham .[ 25] 16 December - The Imperial Copyright Act (coming into effect in 1912) entitles the National Library of Wales to be given by legal deposit a copy of all British publications in specified categories, based on a memorandum drafted by Daniel Lleufer Thomas .[ 26]
Arts and literature
Awards
New books
Edward Morgan Humphreys - Dirgelwch yr Anialwch ("Mystery of the Desert")Sir John Edward Lloyd – A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest
John Ward – The Roman Era in Britain
Music
Sport
Births
27 March - Alwyn D. Rees , writer (died 1974 )[ 28] 13 April - Len Richards , footballer (died 1985)26 May - Gwilym Tilsley , poet and archdruid (died 1997 )30 June - Alfred Janes , artist (died 1999 )[ 29] 23 July - Idris Foster , academic (died 1984 )[ 30] 29 August - Raymond Bark-Jones , Wales international rugby player2 September - Jack Petersen , boxer (died 1990)4 September - John Robert Jones , philosopher (died 1970 )[ 31] 12 October - Iorrie Isaacs , Wales international rugby player (died 1966)12 November - Pennar Davies , clergyman and author (died 1996 )[ 32] 20 November - Bernard Cowey , Wales international rugby union player (died 1997)7 December - John Gwyn Griffiths , academic (died 2004)date unknown - Dai Francis , miners’ leader (died 1981)
Deaths
8 February - Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor , politician, Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire, 63[ 12] 3 March - Jacob Thomas , Victoria Cross recipient, 78[ 33] 29 April - Hugh Robert Hughes , genealogist, 83[ 34] 12 July - Harry Day , Wales international rugby player, 4713 August - Thomas Thomas , boxer, 31 (pneumonia)[ 35] 18 August - Henry James, 1st Baron James of Hereford , politician, 8228 August - Jack Williams , Wales international rugby player, 284 September - Tom Hurry Riches , steam locomotive engineer, 64[ 36] 12 September - Arthur John Williams , politician, 77[ 37] 30 September - John David Davies , churchman, wood-carver and antiquarian, 80[ 38] 3 October - William Tudor Howell , lawyer and politician, 48[ 39] 14 November - Robert Davies Roberts , scientist and author, 60[ 40] [ 41] 6 December - Pryce Lewis , detective and spy, 80 (suicide)[ 42] 11 December - Rowland Ellis , bishop, 70[ 43]
See also
References
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