1890 in Wales

Centuries:	17th; 18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1890 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1890 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

6 February - In an accident at Llanerch Colliery, Pontypool, 176 miners are killed.
10 March - In an accident at Morfa Colliery, Port Talbot, 86 miners are killed.
7 April - An Easter Monday conference at Llangefni leads to agreement with employers on a shorter working day for male agricultural labourers.
13 April - At a by-election in Caernarfon, David Lloyd George wins the seat for the Liberals from the Conservatives, defeating H. J. E. Nanney, the local squire; Lloyd George remains the constituency MP until his death in 1945.
22 May - Y Cymro is launched by Isaac Foulkes (Llyfrbryf) in Liverpool as a liberal weekly Welsh language "national newspaper for Welshmen at home and abroad"; it is published until 1909.
Summer - Queen Elisabeth of Romania visits Llandudno, staying for five weeks and later remembering it as "a beautiful haven of peace"; the phrase is later translated into Welsh and used as the town's motto.
21 December - Beginning of a 3-week period of severe winter weather causing deaths and disruption to daily life in many parts of Wales.
Opening of the Rock Mill watermill for woollen milling at Capel Dewi, Llandysul.

Cricket - The England ladies' team plays an exhibition match at Newport.
Football - The Welsh Cup is won by Chirk for the third time.
Hockey - The Welsh Hockey Association is founded.
Rugby union - Wales win their very first international against England. The only try was scored by Cardiff's 'Buller' Stadden.

2 January - Madoline Thomas, actress (died 1989)
21 January - Jack Anthony, jockey (died 1954)
14 February - Nina Hamnett, artist and Bohemian (died 1956)
1 March - Jack Beames, rugby player (died 1970)
16 February - Thomas Ifor Rees, diplomat (died 1977)
20 April - Ernest Roberts, politician (died 1969)
5 May - George Littlewood Hirst, Wales international rugby player (died 1967)
14 June - Dai Hiddlestone, Wales international rugby player (died 1973)
21 June - W. J. A. Davies, rugby player (died 1967)
28 July - Horace Thomas, Wales international rugby player (died 1916)
30 August - Llewelyn Wyn Griffith, novelist (died 1977)
13 September - Johnny Basham, boxer (died 1947)
19 September - Jim Griffiths, politician, first Secretary of State for Wales (died 1975)
22 November - (in Lancashire) Harry Pollitt, Communist trade union leader and parliamentary candidate for Rhondda East (died 1960)
16 December - P. J. Grigg, politician (died 1964)