This article is about the particular significance of the year 1912 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dyfed
Lord Lieutenant of Anglesey – Sir Richard Henry Williams-Bulkeley, 12th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Brecknockshire – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk
Lord Lieutenant of Caernarvonshire – John Ernest Greaves
Lord Lieutenant of Cardiganshire – Herbert Davies-Evans
Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire – Sir James Williams-Drummond, 4th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Denbighshire – William Cornwallis-West
Lord Lieutenant of Flintshire – William Glynne Charles Gladstone
Lord Lieutenant of Glamorgan – Robert Windsor-Clive, 1st Earl of Plymouth
Lord Lieutenant of Merionethshire – Sir Osmond Williams, 1st Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Monmouthshire – Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar
Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire – Sir Herbert Williams-Wynn, 7th Baronet
Lord Lieutenant of Pembrokeshire – John Philipps, 1st Viscount St Davids
Lord Lieutenant of Radnorshire – Powlett Milbank
Bishop of Bangor – Watkin Williams
Bishop of Llandaff – Joshua Pritchard Hughes
Bishop of St Asaph – A. G. Edwards (later Archbishop of Wales) Bishop of St Davids – John Owen
Events
9 February - Alfred Thomas is created Baron Pontypridd. 1 March - A national coal miners' strike begins, led in Wales by Vernon Hartshorn and Noah Ablett, among others. 15 April - Wireless operator Artie Moore of Gelligroes near Blackwood, hears a distress signal from . 22 April - Denys Corbett Wilson leaves Goodwick, Pembrokeshire, to make the first manned flight fully across the Irish Sea in a time of 1 hour 40 minutes. 26 April - Vivian Hewitt of Bodfari in Denbighshire makes a manned flight across the Irish Sea, from Holyhead to Dublin. 28 May - A major demonstration in favour of disestablishment takes place in Swansea. 25 June - King George V and Queen Mary arrive for a 4-day visit to Cardiff onboard HMY Victoria and Albert (built Pembroke Dock 1899). On 26 June the royal couple lay the foundation stone of the National Museum Cardiff (it does not open to the public until 1927). 27 June - King George V and Queen Mary travel by train via Pontypridd for a controversial visit to Merthyr Tydfil. 1 August - Chemist Humphrey Owen Jones marries a colleague, Muriel Gwendolen Edwards. A fortnight later the couple, both keen climbers, are killed in a fall while on their honeymoon in the Alps. 17 September - Welsh immigrant workers play a major part in organizing the coal miners' strike in Vancouver Island, Canada. The Welsh Health Service Insurance Commission is established. Sir David Brynmor Jones becomes a member of the Privy Council. Dan yr Ogof caves are discovered by brothers Jeff and Tommy Morgan. Sir Ellis Ellis-Griffith becomes chairman of the Welsh Parliamentary Liberal Party. Clough Williams-Ellis receives his first major architectural commission, for the remodelling of Llangoed Hall. First coal raised from Bedwas Navigation Colliery. A drill hall is built in the Pen-dre area of Tywyn for the Territorial Army (the 7th Battalion the Royal Welsh Fusiliers). The hall, subsequently known as Neuadd Pendre, is renovated 100 years after its construction with grants from various sources and houses a 3-manual 9-rank Wurlitzer Organ originally installed in a cinema in Woolwich.
Arts and literature
The Welsh colony in Chubut launches its own newspaper.
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales - held in Wrexham
Chair and Crown - T. H. Parry-Williams (the first time both major prizes were won by the same person)
New books
English language
Stanley Bligh - The Art of Conversation
Rhoda Broughton - Between Two Stools
A. G. Edwards - Landmarks in the History of the Welsh Church
Miners' Unofficial Reform Committee - The Miners' Next Step
T. M. Rees - Welsh Painters
Bertha Thomas - Stranger Within The Gates (collection of short stories)
Welsh language
Edward Tegla Davies - Hunangofiant Tomi
Thomas Williams (Brynfab) - Pan Oedd Rhondda'n Bur
Music
Thomas Carrington - Concwest Calfari
Sir Henry Walford Davies - Song of St Francis (cantata) David Vaughan Thomas - A Song for St. Cecilia's Day