1902 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1902 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

March 4 - Five miners are killed in an accident at Milfaen Colliery, Blaenavon.
June 3 - Six miners are killed in an accident at Gerwen Colliery, Llanelli.
November 11 - Five miners are killed in an accident at Deep Navigation Colliery, Mountain Ash.
Alfred Mond founds his nickel works at Clydach in the Swansea valley.
230 Welsh colonists leave Patagonia for Manitoba in Canada.
Opening of the Great Orme tramway, the longest cable railway in the UK.
Opening of Caernarfon electric power station.
Opening of
- Vale of Rheidol railway
- Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway
Isambard Owen is knighted.

25 February - Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician (died 1993)
4 March - David Evans-Bevan, industrialist (died 1973)
22 April - Megan Lloyd George, politician (died 1966)
18 June - Morgan Phillips, politician (died 1963)
21 September - E. E. Evans-Pritchard, anthropologist of Welsh descent (died 1972)
27 October (in Oxford) - Harold Arthur Harris, academic
date unknown
- Dilys Cadwaladr, poet (died 1979)
- Richard Bryn Williams, writer (died 1981)

January 11 - James James, harpist and composer, 68
March 6 - William Rathbone, politician, 82
November 17 - Hugh Price Hughes, minister and anti-Parnell campaigner, 55
date unknown
- Jeremiah Jones, poet
- Edmund Hannay Watts, industrialist (Wattstown)