1901 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1901 to Wales and its people.

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January - Samuel Thomas Evans becomes the last QC appointed by Queen Victoria.
22 January - The Prince of Wales accedes to the throne, following the death of Queen Victoria.
31 March - The 10-yearly Census of England and Wales is taken.
3 April - Frederick Rutherfoord Harris, MP for Monmouth Boroughs, is unseated for alleged electoral malpractice.
7 May - In the by-election at Monmouth Boroughs, Joseph Lawrence becomes the new Conservative MP.
24 May - 81 miners are killed in an accident at Universal Colliery, Senghenydd.
10 September - Twelve miners are killed in an accident at Llanbradach Colliery in Glamorgan.
9 November - Prince George, Duke of York and his wife Mary of Teck officially become Prince and Princess of Wales.
Gomer Berry and William Ewart Berry co-found Advertising World.
Samuel Walker Griffith helps draft the Australian constitution.
Shipping magnate Alfred Lewis Jones is knighted.
Construction of the 156-room Grand Hotel at Llandudno, the largest in Wales at the time.

National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Merthyr Tydfil
- Chair - Evan Rees
- Crown - John Gwili Jenkins

20 January - Cecil Griffiths, athlete (died 1973)
18 February - Will Owen, politician (died 1981)
4 March - Edward Prosser Rhys, journalist and poet
19 April - John Ellis Williams, novelist
9 November - Rhys Davies, writer (died 1978)
10 December - Ivor Jones, rugby player (died 1982)
24 December - Hilary Marquand, economist and MP (died 1972)
date unknown - Iorwerth Peate, poet, author and founder of the Museum of Welsh Life

February 21 - John Deffett Francis, artist
June - Abel Jones (Bardd Crwst), balladeer (born 1830)
June 1
- John Viriamu Jones, scientist
- Morgan Albert Ellis, Welsh-American preacher (born 1832)
September 5 - Rhys Gwesyn Jones, minister and author
September 15 - John Richards (Isalaw), musician (born 1843)
September 22 - William Davies (Mynorydd), artist (born 1826)