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{{Year in Wales header|1907}}This article is about the particular significance of the year 1907 to Wales and its people. Incumbents- Prince of Wales – George (later George V)
- Princess of Wales – Mary
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed
Events- 17 February – The cargo ship SS Orianda sinks off Barry after colliding with the SS Heliopolis, with the loss of 14 crew.
- 5 March – Six miners are killed in a shaft accident at Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr.
- 19 March – The National Library of Wales (Aberystwyth) and National Museum of Wales (Cardiff) receive their charters.
- 11 May – Swansea Corporation's newly constructed Cray Reservoir is filled with water for the first time.
- 9 July – Edward VII visits Bangor to lay the foundation stone of the new University College of North Wales buildings. Principal Henry Reichel is knighted.
- 13 July – Opening of the Queen Alexandra Dock in Cardiff, attended by the King and Queen.
- 25 July – Francis Edwards, MP for Radnorshire, is created a baronet.
- 1 November – First performance of John Hughes' hymn tune "Cwm Rhondda" in its final version, at Capel Rhondda Welsh Baptist Chapel, Hopkinstown, Pontypridd with the composer at the (new) organ.[1]
- 10 November – Five miners are killed in an accident at Seven Sisters Colliery.
- 11 December – Seven miners are killed in an accident at Dinas Main Colliery, Gilfach Goch.
- December – Edgeworth David joins Ernest Shackleton’s Nimrod Expedition to the South Pole.
- date unknown
- Owen Morgan Edwards becomes Chief Inspector of Schools for Wales.
- The Board of Education establishes a special Welsh department.
- C. H. Watkins designs and builds the first aircraft in Wales at Cardiff, and names it Robin Goch.
- Opening of Dolgarrog hydroelectric power station.
- Oakdale Colliery is sunk in the Sirhowy Valley.
- The silver and lead mine at Llywernog reopens in order to prospect for zinc.
- The British Glanzstoff Manufacturing Company starts an artificial silk factory in Flint.
Arts and literatureAwards- National Eisteddfod of Wales – held in Swansea
- Chair – Thomas Davies
- Crown – John Dyfnallt Owen
New booksEnglish language- Eliot Crawshay-Williams – Across Persia
- W. H. Davies – New Poems
- Arthur Machen – The Hill of Dreams
Welsh language- Emyr Davies – Llwyn Hudol
- John Jones (Myrddin Fardd) – Gwerin-Eiriau Sir Gaernarfon
- John Morris-Jones – Caniadau
- Joshua Thomas – Hanes y Bedyddwyr
- T. Marchant Williams – Odlau Serch a Bywyd
Music- T. Hopkin Evans – Crowns of Golden Light and The Voyage
- John Hughes – "Cwm Rhondda" (hymn tune, final version)
- David Vaughan Thomas – Llyn y Fan
Architecture- St. David's Hotel, a hotel for golfers located at Harlech, in Gwynedd, is designed to plans by the Glasgow School architect George Henry Walton for a syndicate of entrepreneurs of which he was a member.[2] (The proposals were subsequently revised in 1908, and the hotel was built in 1910.[2] The hotel closed in 2008,[3] and planning permission for demolition was approved in 2009).
Sport- Bowls – The Welsh Open Bowls Championship is launched.
- Boxing
- 1 June – Jim Driscoll wins the British featherweight title.
- 8 August – Joe White wins the British welterweight title (disputed).
- Rugby league
- Ebbw Vale RLFC and Merthyr Tydfil RLFC are formed, the first Welsh rugby league teams.
- Rugby union
- Wales finish second in the 1907 Home Nations Championship
- 1 January – Cardiff beat the touring South Africa national team, 17 - 0.
Births- 3 January – Ray Milland, actor (d. 1986)
- 11 January – Reg Thomas, athlete (d. 1946)
- 4 March - Emlyn John, footballer (d. 1962)
- 6 April – Jacques de Guélis, Special Operations Executive agent (d. 1945)
- 30 April – Harry Bowcott, international rugby player and president of the Welsh Rugby Union (d. 2004)
- 24 May – Gwyn Jones, writer (d. 1999)
- 10 June – Ernie Curtis, footballer (d. 1992)
- 2 July – Dick Duckfield, cricketer (d. 1959)
- 25 August – Albert Fear, Wales international rugby player (d. 2000)
- 27 November – Glyn Prosser, Wales international rugby player (d. 1972)
- 10 December – Harry Payne, Wales international rugby player (d. 2000)
- 19 December – William Glynne-Jones, novelist and children's writer (d. 1977)
- 21 December – Will Roberts, painter (d. 2000)
- 23 December – Fred Warren, international footballer (d. 1986)
- date unknown – Trevor Thomas, art historian and author
Deaths- 7 January – David Rowlands (Dewi Môn), minister, academic and writer, 70
- 10 March – George Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, industrialist and politician, 70
- 24 March – John Pugh, minister (Forward Movement)
- 5 July – John Romilly Allen, archaeologist, 60
- 14 August – David Treharne Evans, Lord Mayor of London
- October – Hugh Davies (Pencerdd Maelor), composer
- 29 October – Megan Watts Hughes, singer, 65[4]
- 10 November – Sir Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet, 74
- 11 November – Ralph Sweet-Escott, English-born Wales rugby international and Glamorgan cricketer, 38
References1. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.cvmg.co.uk/cvm_eng/cwm_rhondda_site/writing_of.htm|title=The Writing of Cwm Rhondda|work=Feed Me Now and Evermore|publisher=Rhondda Cynon Taff Library, Museum & Heritage Service|accessdate=2011-01-05}}
2. ^1 Moon, K.; "George Walton: Designer and Architect"; White Cockade Publishing, Dorset, 1993; {{ISBN|1-873487-01-0}} (hb) {{ISBN|1-873487-02-9}} (pb)
3. ^Haslam, R., Orbach., J., Voelcker, A.; Pevsner Architectural Guides: The Buildings of Wales, Gwynedd; 2009; Yale University Press {{ISBN|0-300-14169-6}}
4. ^{{Cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-HUGH-WAT-1842|title=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=18 June 2018}}
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