|  | A coal mining explosion in the Rhondda Valley of South Wales kills fourteen and injures others | Crime/Disasters | 
          
                                                                                        |  | Another British mining disaster kills forty-nine, this time in South Wales | Crime/Disasters | 
          
                                                                                        |  | David Lloyd George, future British wartime prime minister of Britain, is born in Manchester, England | Personal | 
          
                                                                                        |  | Dozens of miners are drowned when a mine floods in South Wales | Crime/Disasters | 
          
                                                                                        | - | In Britain, heavy snow and violent winds cause winter disruption in northern Wales. | Crime/Disasters | 
          
                                                                                        | - | Massive storms batter the western coast of the British Isles and cause hundreds of deaths | Crime/Disasters | 
          
                                                                                        |  | Mining disaster in Wales kills 142 men | US/the World | 
          
                                                                                        |  | Robert Owen dies in Wales, aged eighty | Personal | 
          
                                                                                        |  | Underwater telegraph line across the Irish Sea completed | Foreign |