1916 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1916 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

1 January - The Port Eynon lifeboat capsizes and three crew members die.
31 May-1 June - Hugh Evan-Thomas distinguishes himself in the Battle of Jutland; he is later knighted.
4 July - Royal Welch Fusiliers Lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon attacks a German trench single-handed, and records the outcome in his memoirs.
7–12 July - The 38th (Welsh) Division loses so many men in the Mametz Wood action during the Battle of the Somme that it is unable to re-group for a year.
12 July - Railway worker James Dally is awarded the Edward Medal by King George V, for his actions in saving a colleague from falling from the Crumlin Viaduct.
September - Charles Evans Hughes loses narrowly to Woodrow Wilson in the United States presidential election, 1916.
October - T. E. Lawrence is sent into the desert to report on the Arab nationalist movements.
November - Christopher Williams visits the scene of the Welsh losses at Mametz Wood and later paints his famous The Welsh at Mametz Wood at the request of David Lloyd George.
December
- David Lloyd George becomes the first Welshman to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and the only one to date.
- David Alfred Thomas leaves Parliament and is created Baron Rhondda. He is appointed Chairman of the Local Government Board.
- Herbert Lewis becomes Minister of Education.
The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cardiff is established.
Royal laryngologist John Milsom Rees is knighted.

Boxing: On 14 February, Jimmy Wilde wins the British flyweight title at Liverpool.

11 September - Thomas Lemuel James, Welsh-American banker and U.S.Postmaster-General (born 1831)
7 October - Leigh Richmond Roose, footballer (born 1877)
31 October - John Maclean Rolls, 2nd Baron Llangattock (born 1870)
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- Sarah Jane Rees (Cranogwen), poet, etc.
- Richard Thomas, industrialist