1884 in Wales: Difference between revisions

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1860s; 1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; Timeline of Welsh history 1884 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1884 to Wales and its people.

January 18 - Dr William Price cremates his dead baby son. He is later tried at Cardiff Assizes, and is acquitted.
January 27 - 14 miners are killed in an accident at the Naval Colliery, Penygraig.
October 18 - Opening of University of Wales, Bangor
November 8 - 15 miners are killed in an accident at the Pochin Colliery, Tredegar.
Isolation hospital for cholera patients opens at Flat Holm.
A Chair of Celtic Studies is founded at Cardiff University.
Closure of Talargoch lead mine, near Dyserth.
Argentine Congress authorises the construction of the Central of Chubut Railway by Lewis Jones y Cia.

Football - Oswestry win the Welsh Cup for the first time.
Rugby union - The first international match is played at Cardiff Arms Park (between Wales and Ireland).

January 9 - William Llewellyn Morgan, Wales international rugby union player (died 1960)
February 19 - Clement Davies, politician (died 1962)
April 12 - Tenby Davies, half-mile world champion runner (died 1932)
June 20 - John Dyke, Wales international rugby union player (died 1960)
August 15 - Ivor Morgan, Wales international rugby union player (died 1943)
November 24 - Jack Jones, novelist (died 1970)
December 3 - Bailey Davies, Wales international rugby union player (died 1968)
December 14 - Margaret Davies, patron of the arts (died 1963)
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- Arthur Jenkins, politician (died 1946)
- Thomas Jones, footballer (died 1958)

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 [[National Eisteddfod of Wales]]  - held at [[Liverpool]]
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 *[[May 24]] - [[Henry Thomas Edwards]], preacher (born [[1837]])
 *[[November 6]] - [[George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry]], industrialist
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