1919 in Wales

Centuries:	18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; ;
Decades:	1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; 1930s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1919 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1919 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Ongoing - 1918 flu pandemic.
13 January - The Red flag is hoisted during a mutiny on HMS Kilbride at Milford Haven.
4–5 March - Kinmel Park Riots by Canadian troops at Kinmel Camp, Bodelwyddan. Five men are killed and 28 injured.
31 March - Submarine HMS H52 is launched at Pembroke Dock; commissioned on 16 December, she is the last Welsh-built fighting ship to enter the Royal Navy.
14 May - The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, establishes probably the world's first Chair in International Politics, endowed by David Davies and his sisters in honour of Woodrow Wilson, with Alfred Eckhard Zimmern as first professor.^[1]
6 June - A race riot breaks out in Newport, Monmouthshire.
11 June - Three people are killed in a 4-day race riot in Cardiff.
10 July - Coalition Liberal candidate David Matthews wins the Swansea East by-election following the death of Thomas Jeremiah Williams MP.
4 August - Death of Thomas Francis Roberts, Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, since 1891; he is succeeded by John Humphreys Davies.
25 August - Fire destroys the Waterloo Hydro, Aberystwyth's largest hotel.
20 December - Six seamen drowned while returning to their ship by boat at Milford Haven.
John Sankey chairs the commission that recommends nationalisation of the coal industry.
Surgeon John Lynn-Thomas is knighted.
James Cory, Cardiff shipowner and philanthropist, is created a baronet.
William James Thomas (Trethomas), coalowner and philanthropist, is created a baronet.

17 February (in Washington, Co. Durham) - Jonah Jones, sculptor, writer and educationist (died 2004)
18 March - Menna Gallie née Humphreys, novelist and translator (died 1990)^[2]
15 April - Emyr Humphreys, writer
22 May - Glyn Davies, economist (died 2003)
16 June - Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare (died 2005)
12 December - Cliff Davies, Wales international rugby player (died 1967)
27 December - Brinley Rees, academic (died 2004)