1919 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1919 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

13 January - The red flag is hoisted during a mutiny on HMS Kilbride at Milford Haven.
4–5 March - Kinmel Park Riots at Bodelwyddan. Five men are killed and 28 injured.
6 June - A race riot breaks out in Newport, Monmouthshire.
11 June - Three people are killed in a 4-day race riot in Cardiff.
10 July - Coalition Liberal candidate David Matthews wins the Swansea East by-election following the death of Thomas Jeremiah Williams MP
20 December - Six seamen drowned while returning to their ship by boat at Milford Haven.
John Sankey chairs the commission that recommends nationalisation of the coal industry.
John Humphreys Davies becomes Principal of the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
Surgeon John Lynn-Thomas is knighted.
James Cory, Cardiff shipping magnate, is created a baronet.
William James Thomas (Trethomas) is created a baronet.

3 January - James Hills-Johnes, Victoria Cross recipient
27 February - Robert Harris, Welsh-born painter
12 June - Thomas Jeremiah Williams, Coalition Liberal Member of Parliament (MP) for Swansea East
26 July - Griffith Jones (Gutyn Arfon), composer
27 September - Adelina Patti, singer
3 December - Volney Rogers, Welsh-American lawyer
date unknown
- Thomas Francis Roberts, academic
- Arthur Owen Vaughan (Owen Rhoscomyl), novelist
- Richard Hughes Williams (Dic Tryfan), writer