1902 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 to Wales and its people.

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4 March â Five miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfaen Colliery, Blaenavon.
1 May â Cardiff Corporation Tramways begins operating its electric system.
3 June â Six miners are killed in an accident at Gerwen Colliery, Llanelli.
26 June â In the 1902 Coronation Honours, Isambard Owen and Alfred Thomas receive knighthoods.
15 July â Francis Grenfell is created 1st Baron Grenfell of Kilvey in the County of Glamorgan.^[16]
31 July â Opening of the first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles.^[17]
2 August â A. G. Edwards, Bishop of St Davids, is appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Denbighshire Yeomanry.^[18]
August â Opening of the Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic (it opens to passengers on 22 December).^[19]
11 November â Five miners are killed in an accident at Deep Navigation Colliery, Mountain Ash.
date unknown
- Alfred Mond founds his nickel works at Clydach in the Swansea Valley.^[20]
- 230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada.
- Opening of Caernarfon electric power station.

Gymnastics â The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed.^[23]
Rugby union â Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.

4 February â Tal Harris, Wales international rugby player (died 1963)
25 February â Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician (died 1993)^[24]
4 March â David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973)^[25]
19 March â Dilys Cadwaladr, poet (died 1979)
16 April â Hugh Iorys Hughes, civil engineer (died 1977 in England)
22 April â Megan Lloyd George, politician (died 1966)^[26]
18 June â Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963)^[27]
17 July â Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU (died 1984)
2 September â Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist (died 1979)^[28]
21 September â E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist of Welsh descent (died 1972)^[29]
27 October (in Oxford) â Harold Arthur Harris, academic (died 1974)
26 November (in Wales or Bristol) â Cyril Bence, academic and politician (died 1992)^[30]
date unknown â Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981)

1 January â William McConnel, industrialist, 93^[31]
11 January â James James, harpist and composer, 69^[32]
19 February â Jeremiah Jones, poet, 46
6 March â William Rathbone, politician, 82^[33]
11 March â Alcwyn Evans, historian, 73^[34]
6 April â Robert Owen, theologian, 81^[35]
5 June â Arthur Powell Davies, English-born American minister, author, and activist of Welsh parentage (d. 1957)^[36]
13 July â Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist (Wattstown)^[37]
14 July â Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player, 37
23 August â Robert Henry Davies, colonial official in British India, 78^[38]
5 October â Henry Lascelles Carr, journalist^[39]
18 October â Margaret Jones, travel writer (Y Gymraes o Ganaan), 60^[40]
17 November â Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55^[41]
December â Thomas Davies, footballer, 36/37^[42]
date unknown â Jones Hewson, singer and actor, 27^[43]