1907 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1907 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

17 February - The cargo ship Orianda sinks off Barry, with the loss of 14 crew.
5 March - Six miners are killed in a shaft accident at Windsor Colliery, Abertridwr.
9 July - King Edward VII of the United Kingdom visits Bangor to lay the foundation stone of the new university buildings. Principal Henry Reichel is knighted.
10 November - Five miners are killed in an accident at Seven Sisters Colliery.
11 December - Seven miners are killed in an accident at Dinas Main Colliery, Gilfach Goch.
Edgeworth David joins Ernest Shackleton’s expedition to the South Pole.
Francis Edwards, MP for Radnorshire, is created a baronet.
Owen Morgan Edwards becomes Chief Inspector of Schools for Wales.
The Board of Education establishes a special Welsh department.
Opening of the Queen Alexandra Dock in Cardiff, attended by the King and Queen.
C. H. Watkins designs and builds the first aircraft in Wales at Cardiff, and names it Robin Goch.
The National Library of Wales and National Museum of Wales receive their charters.
Opening of Dolgarrog hydroelectric power station.
The silver and lead mine at Llywernog reopens in order to prospect for zinc.

Bowls - The Welsh Open Bowls Championship is launched.
Boxing
- 1 June - Jim Driscoll wins the British featherweight title.
- 8 August - Joe White wins the British welterweight title (disputed).

3 January - Ray Milland, actor
11 January - Reg Thomas, athlete
10 June - Ernie Curtis, footballer (died 1992)
date unknown
- Will Roberts, painter
- Trevor Thomas, art historian and author

January 7 - David Rowlands (Dewi Môn), minister, academic and writer
March 10 - George Sholto Gordon Douglas-Pennant, 2nd Baron Penrhyn, industrialist and politician
March 24 - John Pugh, minister (Forward Movement)
July 5 - John Romilly Allen, archaeologist
August 14 - David Treharne Evans, Lord Mayor of London
October - Hugh Davies (Pencerdd Maelor), composer
October 29 - Megan Watts Hughes, singer
November 10 - Sir Lewis Morris, Anglo-Welsh poet