Incumbents

• Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales
  Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
  
   - Charles, Prince of Wales
  Charles, Prince of Wales
  Prince Charles, Prince of Wales is the heir apparent and eldest son of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. Since 1958 his major title has been His Royal Highness The Prince of Wales. In Scotland he is additionally known as The Duke of Rothesay...
  
  
• Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales
  Princess of Wales is a British courtesy title held by the wife of The Prince of Wales since the first "English" Prince of Wales in 1283.Although there have been considerably more than ten male heirs to the throne, there have been only ten Princesses of Wales. The majority of Princes of Wales...
  
   - Diana, Princess of Wales
  Diana, Princess of Wales
  Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...
  
  
• Secretary of State for Wales
  Secretary of State for Wales
  The Secretary of State for Wales is the head of the Wales Office within the British cabinet. He or she is responsible for ensuring Welsh interests are taken into account by the government, representing the government within Wales and overseeing the passing of legislation which is only for Wales...
  
   - William Hague
  William Hague
  William Jefferson Hague is the British Foreign Secretary and First Secretary of State. He served as Leader of the Conservative Party from June 1997 to September 2001...
  
  
• Archbishop of Wales
  Archbishop of Wales
  The post of Archbishop of Wales was created in 1920 when the Church in Wales was separated from the Church of England , and disestablished...
  
   - Alwyn Rice Jones
  Alwyn Rice Jones
  Alwyn Rice Jones was Bishop of St Asaph from 1982 to 1999 and also Archbishop of Wales, the Welsh province of the Anglican Communion, from 1991 to 1999...
  
  

Events

• 1 February - Richey Edwards of the Manic Street Preachers
  Manic Street Preachers
  Manic Street Preachers are a Welsh alternative rock band, formed in 1986. They are James Dean Bradfield, Nicky Wire, Richey Edwards and Sean Moore. The band are part of the Cardiff music scene, and were at their most prominent during the 1990s...
  
   disappears.
• 16 February - In the Islwyn by-election
  Islwyn by-election, 1995
  A by-election was held in the Welsh parliamentary constituency of Islwyn on 16 February 1995 following the resignation of Neil Kinnock who was appointed as a European Commissioner....
  
   brought about by the resignation of Neil Kinnock
  Neil Kinnock
  Neil Gordon Kinnock, Baron Kinnock is a Welsh politician belonging to the Labour Party. He served as a Member of Parliament from 1970 until 1995 and as Labour Leader and Leader of Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition from 1983 until 1992 - his leadership of the party during nearly nine years making him...
  
  , Don Touhig
  Don Touhig
  James Donnelly Touhig, Baron Touhig, PC, KSS is a British Labour Co-operative politician from Wales. He was the Member of Parliament for Islwyn from 1995 until his retirement in 2010.-Early life:...
  
   is elected as Labour MP for the constituency
  Islwyn (UK Parliament constituency)
  Islwyn is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.This area, historically known for coal-mining, is a safe Labour Party seat latterly held by the former Leader of the Opposition Neil Kinnock...
  
  .
• 30 July - Police in North Wales
  North Wales
  North Wales is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales. It is bordered to the south by the counties of Ceredigion and Powys in Mid Wales and to the east by the counties of Shropshire in the West Midlands and Cheshire in North West England...
  
   launch a murder inquiry after the body of seven-year-old Sophie Hook is found on a beach near Llandudno
  Llandudno
  Llandudno is a seaside resort and town in Conwy County Borough, Wales. In the 2001 UK census it had a population of 20,090 including that of Penrhyn Bay and Penrhynside, which are within the Llandudno Community...
  
  . She had gone missing from a nearby house during the night, and her body was found on the beach by a man walking his dog.
• 6 August - Howard Hughes
  Howard Hughes (murderer)
  Howard Hughes is a convicted child murderer.-Early life:Howard Hughes was born in Llandudno, North Wales, in 1965, the youngest of four children born to Gerald and Renee Hughes. He had three older sisters, and his father was a wealthy businessman who ran a construction firm...
  
  , a 30-year-old Colwyn Bay
  Colwyn Bay
  - Demography :Prior to local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974 Colwyn Bay was a municipal borough with a population of c.25,000, but in 1974 this designation disappeared leaving five separate parishes, known as communities in Wales, of which the one bearing the name Colwyn Bay encompassed...
  
   man, is charged with the murder of Sophie Hook.
• 20 November - The Princess of Wales
  Diana, Princess of Wales
  Diana, Princess of Wales was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales, whom she married on 29 July 1981, and an international charity and fundraising figure, as well as a preeminent celebrity of the late 20th century...
  
   gives a revealing television interview to Martin Bashir on the BBC
  BBC
  The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
  
  's Panorama current affairs programme.
• 20 December - The Queen writes to the Prince and Princess of Wales urging them to divorce as soon as possible.
• Welsh historian Sir Rees Davies
  Rees Davies
  Sir Robert Rees Davies CBE , was a noted Welsh historian.He was born in Merionethshire, and educated at Bala grammar school. He was bilingual in Welsh and English. He received a First in his degree from University College, London, where he later returned as a lecturer...
  
   is appointed to the Chichele Chair of Medieval History at the University of Oxford
  University of Oxford
  The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
  
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• Historian Glanmor Williams
  Glanmor Williams
  Sir Glanmor Williams was one of Wales's most eminent historians.Sir Glanmor was born in Dowlais, into a working-class family, and was educated at Cyfarthfa Castle School. He studied at Aberystwyth alongside Alun Lewis and Emyr Humphreys, becoming a specialist in the early modern period of Welsh...
  
   is knighted.
• Diver Keith Hurley discovers the wreck of the Resurgam
  Resurgam
  Resurgam is the name given to two early Victorian submarines designed and built by Reverend George Garrett as a weapon to penetrate the chain netting placed around ship hulls to defend against attack by torpedo vessels....
  
  off Rhyl
  Rhyl
  Rhyl is a seaside resort town and community situated on the north east coast of Wales, in the county of Denbighshire , at the mouth of the River Clwyd . To the west is the suburb of Kinmel Bay, with the resort of Towyn further west, Prestatyn to the east and Rhuddlan to the south...
  
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Arts and literature

• Roger Rees
  Roger Rees
  Roger Rees is a Welsh actor. He is best known to American audiences for playing the characters Robin Colcord on the American television sitcom show Cheers and Lord John Marbury on the American television drama The West Wing...
  
   is nominated for a Tony for Best Actor in a Play for his role in Indiscretions.
• Michael Ball
  Michael Ball (singer)
  Michael Ashley Ball, born 27 June 1962) is a British actor, singer, and radio and TV presenter who is best known for the song "Love Changes Everything" and musical theatre roles such as Marius in Les Misérables, Alex in Aspects of Love, Caractacus Potts in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and Edna Turnblad...
  
   performs in the Les Misérables
  Les Misérables (musical)
  Les Misérables , colloquially known as Les Mis or Les Miz , is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg, based on the novel of the same name by Victor Hugo....
  
  tenth anniversary concert.
• Peter Karrie
  Peter Karrie
  Peter Karrie , is a Welsh singer, best known for his portrayal of the lead role in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, The Phantom of the Opera. He played the part in London, Toronto, Vancouver, Singapore, Hong Kong and on the UK Tour in Bradford, and Manchester...
  
   is voted the favourite Phantom of members of the The Phantom of the Opera
  The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical)
  The Phantom of the Opera is a musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber, based on the French novel Le Fantôme de l'Opéra by Gaston Leroux.The music was composed by Lloyd Webber, and most lyrics were written by Charles Hart, with additional lyrics by Richard Stilgoe. Alan Jay Lerner was an early collaborator,...
  
  Appreciation Society for the second year in a row.
• The Dylan Thomas Centre
  Dylan Thomas Centre
  The Dylan Thomas Centre is an arts centre located in the Maritime Quarter in Swansea, Wales, UK.Formerly the city's Guildhall, which was originally built in 1825, the Dylan Thomas Centre was restored and refurbished to host the UK Year of Literature and Writing in 1995.It was opened in 1995 by...
  
  , Swansea
  Swansea
  Swansea is a coastal city and county in Wales. Swansea is in the historic county boundaries of Glamorgan. Situated on the sandy South West Wales coast, the county area includes the Gower Peninsula and the Lliw uplands...
  
  , is opened by Jimmy Carter
  Jimmy Carter
  James Earl "Jimmy" Carter, Jr. is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States and was the recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize, the only U.S. President to have received the Prize after leaving office...
  
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Awards

• Glyndŵr Award
  Glyndwr Award
  The Glyndŵr Award is made for an Outstanding Contribution to the Arts in Wales. It is given by the Machynlleth Tabernacle Trust to pre-eminent figures in music, art and literature in rotation...
  
   - Kyffin Williams
  Kyffin Williams
  Sir John "Kyffin" Williams, KBE, RA was a Welsh landscape painter who lived at Pwllfanogl, Llanfairpwll on the Island of Anglesey...
  
  
• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Colwyn Bay
  Colwyn Bay
  - Demography :Prior to local government reorganisation on 1 April 1974 Colwyn Bay was a municipal borough with a population of c.25,000, but in 1974 this designation disappeared leaving five separate parishes, known as communities in Wales, of which the one bearing the name Colwyn Bay encompassed...
  
  )

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair -
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown -
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Angharad Jones for Y Dylluan Wen
• Wales Book of the Year
  Wales Book of the Year
  The Wales Book of the Year is a Welsh literary award given annually to the best Welsh and English language works in the fields of fiction and literary criticism by Welsh or Welsh interest authors...
  
  :
  • English language:
  • Welsh
    Welsh language
    Welsh is a member of the Brythonic branch of the Celtic languages spoken natively in Wales, by some along the Welsh border in England, and in Y Wladfa...
    
     language:

• Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen -

New books

• Robin Llywelyn
  Robin Llywelyn
  Robin Llywelyn is a Welsh novelist, writing in both Welsh and English. His works include From Empty Harbour to White Ocean, winner of the National Eisteddfod Prose Medal...
  
   - Y Dwr Mawr Llwyd
• R. S. Thomas
  R. S. Thomas
  Ronald Stuart Thomas was a Welsh poet and Anglican clergyman, noted for his nationalism, spirituality and deep dislike of the anglicisation of Wales...
  
   - No Truce with the Furies
• Aled Rhys Wiliam - Cywain

English-language films

• The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
  The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
  The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain is a 1995 film written by Ivor Monger and directed by Christopher Monger. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1995 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  , with Kenneth Griffith
  Kenneth Griffith
  Kenneth Griffith was a Welsh actor and documentary filmmaker.-Early life:He was born Kenneth Reginald Griffiths in Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales. Six months after his birth his parents split up and left Tenby, leaving Kenneth with his paternal grandparents, Emily and Ernest, who immediately adopted...
  
  

Music

• Robin Huw Bowen
  Robin Huw Bowen
  Robin Huw Bowen is a player of the Welsh Triple Harp, known in Welsh as Telyn Deires , and is recognised internationally as the leading exponent of the instrument...
  
   - Harp Music of Wales (Cerddoriaeth Telyn Cymru)
• Carreg Lafar
  Carreg Lafar
  Carreg Lafar is a traditional Welsh band.It was formed in Cardiff in 1994 with Antwn Owen Hicks, James Rourke, Rhian Evan Jones, Linda Owen Jones and Simon O'Shea. Carreg Lafar literally means a "speaking stone", or "echo stone"....
  
   - Ysbryd y Werin
• Dafydd Iwan
  Dafydd Iwan
  Dafydd Iwan , is a Welsh folk singer and politician. He was the president of Plaid Cymru .Dafydd Iwan Jones was born in Brynaman in Carmarthenshire, Wales, and is the elder brother of politician Alun Ffred Jones. He spent most of his youth in Bala in Gwynedd before attending the University of...
  
   - Cân Celt
• Triskedekaphilia (compilation album)

English-language television

• John Rhys-Davies
  John Rhys-Davies
  John Rhys-Davies is a Welsh actor and voice actor. He is perhaps best known for playing the charismatic Arab excavator Sallah in the Indiana Jones films and the dwarf Gimli in The Lord of the Rings trilogy...
  
   takes the lead in the new US drama series, Sliders
  Sliders
  Sliders is an American science fiction television series. It was broadcast for five seasons, beginning in 1995 and ending in 2000. The series follows a group of travelers as they use a wormhole to "slide" between different parallel universes. The show was created by Robert K. Weiss and Tracy Tormé...
  
  .
• Somebody's Son (prizewinning documentary made for BBC2 and BBC Wales
  BBC Wales
  BBC Cymru Wales is a division of the British Broadcasting Corporation for Wales. Based at Broadcasting House in the Llandaff area of Cardiff, it directly employs over 1200 people, and produces a broad range of television, radio and online services in both the Welsh and English languages.Outside...
  
   by Raw Charm).

Deaths

• 29 January (at Thorpeness
  Thorpeness
  Thorpeness is a village in the county of Suffolk, England. It is part of the parish of Aldringham cum Thorpe and is within the Suffolk Coast and Heaths AONB.- Development of the community :...
  
  ) - Richard Davies, CBE
  Richard Davies (Royal Household)
  Sir Richard Davies, KCVO, CBE was a member of the Household of the Duke of Edinburgh of the United Kingdom.Davies was educated at Porth County School, and Cardiff Technical School...
  
  , member of the Royal Household
• 2 February - Raymond Bark-Jones
  Raymond Bark-Jones
  Raymond Bark-Jones was an English rugby union lock who played international rugby for Wales. He played his club rugby for Waterloo R.F.C. and Cambridge University.-Rugby career:...
  
  , English-born Wales international rugby union player, 83
• 4 February - David Alexander
  David Alexander (singer)
  David Alexander was a Welsh singer and entertainer.-Early years:Born in Blackwood, Monmouthshire, Alexander left Bedwellty Grammar School at the age of sixteen to support his family. He joined his father and eldest brother in the mines at Oakdale Colliery...
  
  , singer, 56
• 8 February - Don Devereux
  Don Devereux
  Don Devereux was a Welsh international prop who played rugby union for Neath and rugby league for Huddersfield. He won three caps for the Wales rugby union team and also represented Wales at schools and youth level....
  
  , dual-code rugby player, 62
• 8 February - Rachel Thomas
  Rachel Thomas
  Rachel Thomas OBE , was a Welsh character actress, well known to film and television audiences.Born in the village of Alltwen, near Pontardawe, Wales, she appeared in such classic films as The Proud Valley with Paul Robeson, Blue Scar and Tiger Bay...
  
  , actress, 89
• 11 March - Myfanwy Talog
  Myfanwy Talog
  Myfanwy Talog was a Welsh actress, best known to the media as the long-term partner of Sir David Jason.-Personal life:...
  
  , actress, 50
• 28 March - Julian Cayo-Evans
  Julian Cayo-Evans
  William Edward Julian Cayo-Evans , was a Welsh political activist and one time leader of the Free Wales Army.-Life:...
  
  , political activist, 57
• 10 April - Glyn Jones, poet, author and academic, 90
• 12 April - Cyril Sidlow
  Cyril Sidlow
  Cyril Sidlow was a Welsh football goalkeeper. He played for several clubs, most notably for Wolverhampton Wanderers and Liverpool.- Life and playing career :...
  
  , footballer, 89
• 21 April - Tessie O'Shea
  Tessie O'Shea
  Teresa Mary "Tessie" O'Shea was a Welsh entertainer and actress.Born in Cardiff to Nellie Theresa and James Peter O'Shea, a soldier who was the son of Irish emigrants, Tessie was reared in the British music hall tradition, appearing on stage as "The Wonder of Wales" as early as the age of six...
  
  , entertainer, 82
• 21 June - Tristan Jones
  Tristan Jones
  Tristan Jones was an author and mariner who wrote numerous books and articles, many in the first person, about sailing...
  
  , sailor, 66
• 24 June - Len Blyth
  Len Blyth
  Leonard 'Len' Blyth was a Welsh international rugby union flanker who played club rugby for Swansea. He captained Swansea and played in three international games for Wales which saw him become a Grand Slam winner....
  
  , Wales international rugby player, 74
• 25 September - Dave Bowen
  Dave Bowen
  David Lloyd "Dave" Bowen was a Welsh football player and manager, who captained his country to their only ever World Cup finals, in 1958.-Playing career:...
  
  , footballer, 67
• 28 September - Lynette Roberts
  Lynette Roberts
  Lynette Roberts was a Welsh poet, born Evelyn Beatrice Roberts in Buenos Aires to parents of Welsh extraction.-Life:...
  
  , poet, 86
• 14 October (in Shrewsbury
  Shrewsbury
  Shrewsbury is the county town of Shropshire, in the West Midlands region of England. Lying on the River Severn, it is a civil parish home to some 70,000 inhabitants, and is the primary settlement and headquarters of Shropshire Council...
  
  ) - Edith Pargeter
  Edith Pargeter
  Edith Mary Pargeter, OBE, BEM , also known by her nom de plume Ellis Peters, was a British author of works in many categories, especially history and historical fiction, and was also honoured for her translations of Czech classics; she is probably best known for her murder mysteries, both...
  
  , novelist of Welsh ancestry, 82
• 22 October - Sir Kingsley Amis
  Kingsley Amis
  Sir Kingsley William Amis, CBE was an English novelist, poet, critic, and teacher. He wrote more than 20 novels, six volumes of poetry, a memoir, various short stories, radio and television scripts, along with works of social and literary criticism...
  
  , novelist closely associated with Swansea, who set several of his works in Wales, 73