1893 in Wales

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Incumbents

13 February - The South Wales Daily Post is launched in Swansea.
11 April — In an underground fire at Great Western Colliery, Pontypridd, 63 miners are killed.
6 July — The future Prince of Wales, Prince George (later George V), marries Mary of Teck. Their wedding rings are made of Welsh gold.
7 August — 22 people on a Sunday school outing from Ystrad Rhondda are drowned at Aberavon.
An International Eisteddfod takes place in Chicago, USA.

Football — The Welsh Cup is won by Wrexham for the third time in its 14-year history.
Rugby union — Wales wins the Triple Crown for the first time.
Rugby union — Glamorgan Wanderers, Laugharne RFC and Tredegar RFC are established.

15 January — Ivor Novello, composer and actor (died 1951)
27 January - John Russell, VC recipient (died 1917)
25 February
- Billy Jennings, footballer (died 1968)
- Gordon Lang, politician (died 1981)
23 May — Tudor Thomas, pioneering ophthalmic surgeon (died 1976)
24 May — William Hubert Davies, musician (died 1965)
1 June — Lewis Valentine, political activist (died 1986)
2 June — David James Davies, economist, industrialist and writer (died 1956)
1 July - Douglas Marsden-Jones, rugby player (died 1955)
2 July — Ralph Hancock, garden architect (died 1950)
1 August — Lionel Beaumont Thomas, MC, businessman and politician (died 1942)
15 October — Saunders Lewis, Welsh nationalist poet, dramatist and critic (died 1985)
18 October — Ivor Rees, VC recipient (died 1967)
29 December - Cyril Lakin, politician (died 1948)
31 December - Ossie Male, rugby player (died 1975)
date unknown - Eleanor Evans, actress, singer and theatre director (died 1969)

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