1911 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1911 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

23 June - The future Edward VIII of the United Kingdom is created Prince of Wales by his father, King George V.
July - Dockers' strike at Cardiff culminates in rioting. Five hundred troops are drafted into the area.
13 July - The new Prince of Wales is invested with his title in a ceremony at Caernarfon Castle, devised by David Lloyd George.
August - Rioting in Bargoed, Brynamman, Ebbw Vale and Tredegar. Jewish-owned businesses are attacked. Troops are brought in.
17 August - During a railway strike in Llanelli, two men are shot dead by police. Magistrates' homes are attacked, and railway trucks are set on fire, resulting in an explosion which kills a further four people.
September/October - Rioting during industrial unrest in Swansea.
A Welsh Nationalist League is founded at Carmarthen to campaign for Home Rule.
Sir Daniel Lleufer Thomas drafts the memorandum giving copyright status to the National Library of Wales.

Edward Morgan Humphreys - Dirgelwch yr Anialwch
Sir John Edward Lloyd – A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest
John Ward – The Roman Era in Britain

Boxing - Freddie Welsh loses his British lightweight title to Matt Wells.
Horse racing - Jack Anthony wins the Grand National for the first time, on "Glenside".

27 March - Alwyn D. Rees, writer (died 1974)
2 September - Jack Petersen, boxer (died 1990)
4 September - John Robert Jones, philosopher
12 November - Pennar Davies, clergyman and author (died 1996)
7 December - John Gwyn Griffiths, academic (died 2004)
date unknown
- Idris Foster, academic (died 1984)
- Dai Francis, miners’ leader
- Alfred Janes, artist (died 1999)
- Gwilym Tilsley, poet and archdruid