1902 in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – George
• Princess of Wales – Mary
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn

  Events

• 4 March – Five miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfaen Colliery, Blaenavon.
• 1 May – Cardiff Corporation Tramways begins operating its electric system.
• 3 June – Six miners are killed in an accident at Gerwen Colliery, Llanelli.
• 26 June – In the 1902 Coronation Honours, Isambard Owen and Alfred Thomas receive knighthoods.
• 15 July – Francis Grenfell is created 1st Baron Grenfell of Kilvey in the County of Glamorgan.
• 31 July – Opening of the first section of the Great Orme Tramway at Llandudno, the longest funicular railway in the British Isles.
• August – Opening of the Vale of Rheidol Railway for goods traffic.
• 11 November – 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.
• *230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada.
• *Opening of Caernarfon electric power station.

  Arts and literature

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Bangor
• *Chair – T. Gwynn Jones
• *Crown – Silyn Roberts

  New books

English language

• Rhoda Broughton – Lavinia
• Arthur Machen – Hieroglyphics
• Allen Raine – A Welsh Witch

  Welsh language

• Hugh Brython Hughes – Tlysau Ynys Prydain
• Thomas Rowland Roberts – Y Monwyson

  Music

• Sir Henry Walford Davies – Three Jovial Huntsmen

  Sport

• Gymnastics – The Welsh Amateur Gymnastics Association is formed.
• Rugby union – Wales win the Home Nations Championship and take the Triple Crown.

  Births

• 4 February – Tal Harris, Wales international rugby player
• 25 February – Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician
• 4 March – David Evans-Bevan, industrialist
• 19 March – Dilys Cadwaladr, poet
• 16 April – Hugh Iorys Hughes, civil engineer
• 22 April – Megan Lloyd George, politician
• 18 June – Morgan Phillips, politician
• 17 July – Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU
• 2 September – Leslie Gilbert Illingworth, political cartoonist
• 21 September – E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist of Welsh descent
• 27 October – Harold Arthur Harris, academic
• 26 November – Cyril Bence, academic and politician
• date unknown – Richard Bryn Williams, writer

  Deaths

• 1 January – William McConnel, industrialist, 93
• 11 January – James James, harpist and composer, 69
• 19 February – Jeremiah Jones, poet, 46
• 6 March – William Rathbone, politician, 82
• 11 March – Alcwyn Evans, historian, 73
• 6 April – Robert Owen, theologian, 81
• 13 July – Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist
• 14 July – Martyn Jordan, Wales international rugby player, 37
• 23 August – Robert Henry Davies, colonial official in British India, 78
• 5 October – Henry Lascelles Carr, journalist
• 17 November – Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55
• date unknown – Jones Hewson, singer and actor, 27