1913 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1913 to Wales and its people. Incumbents Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet (until 15 June); John William Gwynne Hughes (from 15 September) Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – William Glynne Charles Gladstone Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar (until 11 March) Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen (from 4 April) Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughes Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales) Bishop of St Davids – John Owen Events 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. 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. 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. Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Abergavenny Chair - Thomas Jacob Thomas, "Aelwyd y Cymro" Crown - William Evans (Wil Ifan) New books English language Sabine Baring-Gould - Lives of the British Saints, volume 4 W. H. Davies - Foliage 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 Edward Thomas - The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans Welsh language T. Gwynn Jones - Brethyn Cartref Moelona - Teulu Bach Nantoer Music Robert Griffith - Llyfr Cerdd Dannau Morfydd Llwyn Owen - Nocturne