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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1917 to Wales and its people.
[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Events
- February - Psychoanalyst Ernest Jones marries composer Morfydd Llwyn-Owen.
- 6 July - Aqaba falls to a joint force of Arab irregulars and the supporters of Auda Abu Tayi, largely thanks to the efforts of T. E. Lawrence.
- 17 July - Prince Louis of Battenberg is created Marquess of Milford Haven.
- August - At the Birkenhead eisteddfod, the announcement is made that the winner of the chair, Hedd Wyn, has been killed in battle. Contralto Laura Evans-Williams sings I Blas Gogerddan instead of the traditional chairing song.
- 25 August - The steamship Cymrian is torpedoed by a German U-boat off Porthcawl, resulting in the deaths of 10 crew.
- September - Hugh Evan-Thomas is promoted to vice-admiral.
- 28 October - The steamship Eskmere is torpedoed by a German U-boat in St Bride's Bay, resulting in the deaths of 20 crew.
- 7 December - The steamship Earl of Elgin is torpedoed by a German U-boat in Caernarfon Bay, resulting in the deaths of 18 crew.
- 15 December - The steamship Formby is torpedoed by a German U-boat in Caernarfon Bay, resulting in the deaths of 15 crew.
- 27 December - The steamship Adela is torpedoed by a German U-boat off the Skerries, Anglesey, resulting in the deaths of 24 crew.
- The Rotary Club opens its first branches in Wales, at Cardiff and Llanelli.
- Launch of the first submarine built in Pembroke.
- Josiah Towyn Jones becomes a Junior Lord of the Treasury and government Whip.
- Jimmy Thomas is instrumental in forming the National Union of Railwaymen.
- Margaret Haig Thomas becomes Director of the Women's Department of the Ministry of National Service.
- St Winefride's Well at Holywell temporarily dries up as a result of mining activity.
- Trade unionist Ness Edwards is imprisoned as a conscientious objector.
[edit] Arts and literature
- Papur Pawb ceases publication.
[edit] Awards
[edit] New books
- A. G. Prys-Jones - Welsh Poets
- Moelona - Bugail y Bryn
- Mary Edith Nepean - Gwyneth of the Welsh Hills
- Boxing - May 28: Freddie Welsh is knocked out at the Manhattan Athletic Club, losing his world lightweight title after three years as champion.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- 28 February - Richard Lloyd, uncle of Lloyd George, 82
- 9 April - Edward Thomas, Anglo-Welsh poet (born 1878)
- 1 May - William Knox D'Arcy, industrialist (born 1849)
- 9 June - Thomas McKenny Hughes, geologist, 84
- 31 July
- 21 November - Rhys Jones Huws, poet, 55
- 25 November - John Williams, choirmaster, 61
- 25 December - Richard Jones Berwyn, colonist and writer, 54
- date unknown - Frederick William Harris, industrialist
