1884 in Wales

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

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

Incumbents

18 January — Dr William Price cremates his dead baby son. He is later tried at Cardiff Assizes, and is acquitted.
27 January — 14 miners are killed in an accident at the Naval Colliery, Penygraig.
18 October — Opening of University of Wales, Bangor
8 November — 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).

9 January — William Llewellyn Morgan, Wales international rugby union player (died 1960)
19 February — Clement Davies, politician (died 1962)
12 April — Tenby Davies, half-mile world champion runner (died 1932)
20 June — John Dyke, Wales international rugby union player (died 1960)
31 July — Lionel Rees, aviator, recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1955)
15 August — Ivor Morgan, Wales international rugby union player (died 1943)
24 November — Jack Jones, novelist (died 1970)
3 December — Bailey Davies, Wales international rugby union player (died 1968)
14 December — Margaret Davies, patron of the arts (died 1963)
date unknown
- Arthur Jenkins, politician (died 1946)
- Thomas Jones, footballer (died 1958)

12 February — Henry Morgan-Clifford, politician, 77
17 March — Edward Lloyd-Mostyn, 2nd Baron Mostyn, 89
24 May — Henry Thomas Edwards, preacher, 46 (suicide)
17 July — Charles James Watkin Williams, judge, doctor and politician, 55
6 November — George Vane-Tempest, 5th Marquess of Londonderry, industrialist and owner of Plas Machynlleth, 63