1 August - Chemist Humphrey Owen Jones marries a colleague, Muriel Gwendolen Edwards. A fortnight later the couple, both keen climbers, are killed in a fall while on their honeymoon in the Alps.[21]
17 September - Welsh immigrant workers play a major part in organizing the coal miners' strike in Vancouver Island, Canada.
The Welsh Health Service Insurance Commission is established.
A drill hall is built in the Pen-dre area of Tywyn for the Territorial Army (the 7th Battalion the Royal Welsh Fusiliers). The hall, subsequently known as Neuadd Pendre, is renovated 100 years after its construction with grants from various sources[23] and houses a 3-manual 9-rank Wurlitzer Organ originally installed in a cinema in Woolwich.[24]
Arts and literature
The Welsh colony in Chubut launches its own newspaper.
↑ Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. Dod. 1921. p.356.
↑ National Museum of Wales (1935). Adroddiad Blynyddol. The Museum. p.3.
↑ The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1860. p.443.
↑ The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. 1986. p.63.
↑ Potter, Matthew (2016). The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p.149. ISBN9781351545471.
↑ "Williams, Ven. John Charles", Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2008; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2012; online edn, Nov 2012 accessed 20 Sept 2013
↑ Patrick Hannan (22 April 2005). "Gwynfor Evans". The Guardian. Retrieved 26 September 2019.
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