This article is about the particular significance of the year 1898 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Hwfa Môn Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 1st Baron Glanusk Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor (until 29 March); Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet (from 12 July) Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – Hugh Robert Hughes Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – W. R. M. Wynne Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Henry Somerset, 8th Duke of Beaufort Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – Frederick Campbell, 3rd Earl Cawdor Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank Bishop of Bangor – Daniel Lewis Lloyd Bishop of Llandaff – Richard Lewis Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales)Who was Who 1897–2007, 1991, Bishop of St Davids – John Owen

Events 22 January — Newspaper Llais Llafur ("Labour Voice") is launched in Ystalyfera, and will continue to be published (under various titles) until 1971. 1 April–1 September — Welsh coal strike fails to remove the sliding scale, linking wages to the price of coal. 28 March–15 August — Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway runs regular market day passenger services. 10 May — Mumbles Pier is opened and the Swansea and Mumbles Railway is extended to it. 2 August — The Llandudno Motor Touring Co begins running excursions with the first motor buses in Wales at Llandudno. 24 October — The South Wales Miners' Federation is founded. 6 December — The Abercynon to Merthyr Tydfil stretch of the Glamorganshire Canal is closed because of subsidence. date unknown Peak year of slate production in Wales. Opening of new docks at Barry and Port Talbot. Opening of Lluest-wen Reservoir. The last stained glass window to be designed by Edward Burne-Jones is installed at St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, by Morris & Co.Huddersfield Daily Chronicle Thursday 5 May 1898, p.3. issue 9599: Memorial window at Haywarden: "the Nativity from the designs of Sir Edward Burne-Jones" soon to be finished for the Gladstone family

Arts and literature Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales — held at Blaenau Ffestiniog Chair — Robert Owen Hughes, "Awen" Crown — Richard Roberts, "Charles o'r Bala"

New books Welsh language Beriah Gwynfe Evans — Dafydd Dafis Daniel James (Gwyrosydd) — Aeron Awen Gwyrosydd John Owen Jones (Ap Ffarmwr) — Cofiant Gladstone T. Gwynn Jones — Gwedi Brad a Gofid

Music none known

Sport Football — The Welsh Cup is won by the "Druids" for the sixth time in its 20-year history Rugby union Senghenydd RFC and Ynysybwl RFC are founded. February — The Welsh Rugby Union is readmitted into the International Football Rugby Board after the events of The Gould Affair and Wales can again play international rugby. 19 March — Wales defeat Ireland 11–3 in a game played at Thomond Park, Limerick

Births 20 January – Tudor Owen, actor (died 1979) 10 February – Thomas Jones, Baron Maelor, politician (died 1984) 20 April – Cliff Williams, Wales international rugby union player (died 1930) 29 July – Dorothy Rees, politician (died 1987) 29 August – Sydney Hinam, Wales international rugby union player (died 1982) 24 September – Henry Arthur Evans, politician (died 1958) 6 October – William John Edwards, Cerdd Dant singer (died 1978) 25 December – Islwyn Evans, Wales international rugby player (died 1974)

Deaths 29 March – John Campbell, 2nd Earl Cawdor, politician, 80 25 May – Theophilus Harris Davies, sugar magnate, 64 17 June – Sir Edward Burne-Jones, artist, 64 17 July – Arthur Guest, politician, 56 11 August – Owen Humphrey Davies (Eos Llechid), composer, 59 6 September – Robert Jones, VC recipient, 41 (suicide) 26 September – Joseph Jenkins, farmer and diarist ("The Welsh Swagman"), 80 28 September – Thomas Gee, publisher, 83 29 October – David Stephen Davies, preacher and colonial leader 31 October – William Gilbert Rees, surveyor and explorer, New Zealand settler, 71 2 December – Michael D. Jones, Tad y Wladfa, founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia, 76 17 December – William Norton, Wales international rugby player, 36 date unknown – John Jones, astronomer, about 80

See also 1898 in Ireland

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