March – The Local Authorities (Admission of the Press) Act, 1908 is passed as a result of a challenge by Frank Mason, editor of the Tenby Observer, after the local council tried to ban him from their meetings.[18]
1 January - The first-ever international match is held at
Aberdare, where Wales defeat New Zealand 9 - 8. The match was won by a last minute try from former
Welsh rugby union international
Dai Jones.
The selection of players for the
1908 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia results in a comment by the Welsh Rugby Union that players for future tours should be chosen '...irrespective of the social position of the players.'[37]
^Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. Dod. 1921. p. 356.
^National Museum of Wales (1935). Adroddiad Blynyddol. The Museum. p. 3.
^The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1860. p. 443.
^The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. 1986. p. 63.
^Potter, Matthew (2016). The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 149.
ISBN9781351545471.
^Henry Taylor (1895). "Popish recusants in Flintshire in 1625". Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales. Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales: 304.
^Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, David Smith, Gareth Williams; University of Wales Press (1980), pg 175
ISBN0-7083-0766-3
^Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 31. Oxford University Press. 2004. p. 343.
ISBN0-19-861381-4.Article by J.E. Lloyd, revised by H.C.G. Matthew.
^"Death of Mr Solomon Andrews". Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald and North and South Wales Independent. National Library of Wales. 13 November 1906. Retrieved 29 March 2022.
March – The Local Authorities (Admission of the Press) Act, 1908 is passed as a result of a challenge by Frank Mason, editor of the Tenby Observer, after the local council tried to ban him from their meetings.[18]
1 January - The first-ever international match is held at
Aberdare, where Wales defeat New Zealand 9 - 8. The match was won by a last minute try from former
Welsh rugby union international
Dai Jones.
The selection of players for the
1908 British Lions tour to New Zealand and Australia results in a comment by the Welsh Rugby Union that players for future tours should be chosen '...irrespective of the social position of the players.'[37]
^Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland, Including All the Titled Classes. Dod. 1921. p. 356.
^National Museum of Wales (1935). Adroddiad Blynyddol. The Museum. p. 3.
^The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Dalcassian Publishing Company. 1860. p. 443.
^The Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion. The Society. 1986. p. 63.
^Potter, Matthew (2016). The concept of the 'master' in art education in Britain and Ireland, 1770 to the present. Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge. p. 149.
ISBN9781351545471.
^Henry Taylor (1895). "Popish recusants in Flintshire in 1625". Journal of the Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales. Architectural, Archaeological, and Historic Society for the County and the City of Chester and North Wales: 304.
^Fields of Praise, The Official History of the Welsh Rugby Union 1881-1981, David Smith, Gareth Williams; University of Wales Press (1980), pg 175
ISBN0-7083-0766-3
^Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Volume 31. Oxford University Press. 2004. p. 343.
ISBN0-19-861381-4.Article by J.E. Lloyd, revised by H.C.G. Matthew.
^"Death of Mr Solomon Andrews". Carnarvon and Denbigh Herald and North and South Wales Independent. National Library of Wales. 13 November 1906. Retrieved 29 March 2022.