1. Incumbents

2. Events

3. Arts and literature
    Awards  New books  Music 

4. Sport

5. Births

6. Deaths

7. References

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1889 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Albert Edward
• Princess of Wales – Alexandra
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Clwydfardd

Events

• January – First Glamorgan County Council elections are held.^[1]
• 8 February – Nine people drown in a ferry accident at Pembroke Dock.
• 14 February – The first edition of the North Wales Weekly News is published (under the title Weekly News and Visitors’ Chronicle for Colwyn Bay, Colwyn, Llandrillo, Conway, Deganway and Neighbourhood).^[2]
• 13 March – Twenty miners are killed in an accident at the Brynmally Colliery, Wrexham.
• June – A lion escapes from a travelling menagerie at Llandrindod Wells.^[3]
• 18 July – Opening of the first dock basin at Barry.
• 3 August – Opening of Hawarden Bridge.
• 12 August – The passing of the Welsh Intermediate Education Act marks the beginning of secondary education in Wales.
• 15 August – Three men are killed in a mining accident at Wenvoe Quarry, Glamorgan.^[4]
• 26 August – Act of incorporation of the Barry Railway Company#Vale of Glamorgan Railway.
• Approximate date – The Showmen's Guild of Great Britain is co-founded in Salford as the United Kingdom Van Dwellers Protection Association by Jacob Studt and other active Welsh cinema pioneers.

Arts and literature

Awards

• Chair – Evan Rees
• Crown – Howell Elvet Lewis

New books

• Owen Morgan Edwards – O'r Bala i Geneva

Music

• Sir Henry Walford Davies – The Future, for chorus and orchestra

Sport

• Cricket – Glamorgan County Cricket Club plays its first match, against Warwickshire at Cardiff Arms Park.
• Rugby union – Bedwas RFC, Blackwood RFC and Llantwit Major RFC are formed.

Births

• 12 January – John Bryn Edwards, ironmaster and philanthropist (died 1922)
• 22 January – John Emlyn-Jones, politician (died 1952)
• 28 January – Phil Waller, Wales and British Lions rugby player (died 1917)
• 31 January – Jack Evans, footballer (died 1971)
• 1 February – John Lewis, philosopher (died 1976)
• 10 February – Howard Spring, novelist (died 1965)
• 28 February – George Jeffreys, Pentecostalist (died 1962)
• 5 May – Stanley Winmill, Wales international rugby union player (died 1940)
• 24 June – Harry Symonds, cricketer (died 1945)
• 17 July – Aled Owen Roberts, politician (died 1949)
• 5 August – William Davies Thomas, academic (died 1954)
• 10 August – Irene Steer, swimmer (died 1977)
• 21 August – Henry Lewis, Professor at Swansea University (died 1968)
• 23 October – William Havard, Bishop of St Davids and international rugby player (died 1956)
• 11 December – Cedric Morris, artist (died 1982)

Deaths

• 21 January – Joshua Hughes, Bishop of St Asaph, 81
• 27 May – George Owen Rees, Welsh-Italian doctor, 75
• 8 June – Gerard Manley Hopkins, Anglo-Welsh poet, 44
• 17 June – John Hughes, industrialist, 73 (in St Petersburg)
• 26 June – Walter Rice Howell Powell, landowner and politician, 69
• 28 September – Samuel Goldsworthy, Wales international rugby player, 34
• 29 October – Godfrey Darbishire, Wales rugby international player, 36
• 14 November – James Stephens, stonemason, Chartist, and later Australian trade unionist, 68
• probable – Richard Williams Morgan, clergyman and poet

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