1914 in Wales

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1914 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1914 to Wales and its people.

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Incumbents

Events

  • 21 September - William Charles Fuller wins the Victoria Cross for carrying a wounded officer to safety under fire.
  • A Welsh Home Rule Bill, introduced by Edward T. John, MP for East Denbighshire, fails.
  • A women's teacher training college opens at Barry; a men's equivalent opens at Caerleon.
  • The hundredth intermediate school in Wales is established (under the Welsh Intermediate and Technical Education Act 1889).
  • The first trolley buses in Wales come into operation, in Aberdare.
  • William James Thomas, industrialist and philanthropist, is knighted.

Arts and literature

Awards

New books

  • Rhoda Broughton - Concerning a Vow
  • John Gruffydd Moelwyn Hughes - Caniadau Moelwyn, vol. 4
  • Bertrand Russell - Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy

Music

Film

Sport

Births

Deaths


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