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...
  
   - vacant
• First Minister - Rhodri Morgan
  Rhodri Morgan
  Hywel Rhodri Morgan is a Welsh Labour politician who, as First Secretary for Wales, and subsequently First Minister, was leader of the Welsh Assembly Government from 2000 to 2009. A former leader of Welsh Labour, he was the Assembly Member for Cardiff West from 1999 to 2011...
  
  
• Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales
  Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales
  The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales is the Speaker of the National Assembly for Wales, elected by the Members of the National Assembly for Wales to chair their meetings ; to maintain order; and to protect the rights of Members.He or she also heads the Corporate Body of the...
  
   - Dafydd Elis-Thomas
  Dafydd Elis-Thomas
  Dafydd Elis Elis-Thomas, Baron Elis-Thomas, PC, AM, is a Welsh politician and was the Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales until 2011...
  
  
• 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...
  
   - Peter Hain
  Peter Hain
  Peter Gerald Hain is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Neath since 1991, and has served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, firstly as Leader of the House of Commons under Blair and both Secretary of State for...
  
  
• 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...
  
   - Barry Morgan
  Barry Morgan
  Barry Cennydd Morgan has been the Archbishop of the Church in Wales since 2003.-Early life:Morgan was born in Gwaun-Cae-Gurwen, Neath Port Talbot and studied history at University College, London and theology at Selwyn College, Cambridge...
  
   (Bishop of Llandaff
  Bishop of Llandaff
  The Bishop of Llandaff is the Ordinary of the Church in Wales Diocese of Llandaff.-Area of authority:The diocese covers most of the County of Glamorgan. The Bishop's seat is located in the Cathedral Church of Saint Peter and Saint Paul , in the village of Llandaff, just north-west of the City of...
  
  )

Events

• 10 January - Jane Hutt
  Jane Hutt
  Jane Hutt AM is a Welsh Labour politician and a Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government. Hutt has represented the Vale of Glamorgan constituency since the National Assembly for Wales was established in 1999...
  
   loses her job as Health Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government
  Welsh Assembly Government
  The Welsh Government is the devolved government of Wales. It is accountable to the National Assembly for Wales, the legislature which represents the interests of the people of Wales and makes laws for Wales...
  
  , a post she had held since 1999. She is replaced by Dr Brian Gibbons
  Brian Gibbons
  Dr Brian Gibbons, AM, FRCGP was the Labour Party Assembly Member for Aberavon from May 1999 to May 2010, when he stood down...
  
  . First Minister Rhodri Morgan denies it is a sacking, and moves Mrs Hutt to the post of Business Minister.
• 22 January - Tsunami Relief concert held at the Millennium Stadium
  Millennium Stadium
  The Millennium Stadium is the national stadium of Wales, located in the capital, Cardiff. It is the home of the Wales national rugby union team and also frequently stages games of the Wales national football team, but is also host to many other large scale events, such as the Super Special Stage...
  
  , Cardiff
  Cardiff
  Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
  
   -the largest live music event in the UK since Live Aid
  Live Aid
  Live Aid was a dual-venue concert that was held on 13 July 1985. The event was organized by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise funds for relief of the ongoing Ethiopian famine. Billed as the "global jukebox", the event was held simultaneously in Wembley Stadium in London, England, United Kingdom ...
  
  . Performers included Eric Clapton
  Eric Clapton
  Eric Patrick Clapton, CBE, is an English guitarist and singer-songwriter. Clapton is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist, and separately as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream. Clapton has been referred to as one of the most important and...
  
  , Jools Holland
  Jools Holland
  Julian Miles "Jools" Holland OBE, DL is an English pianist, bandleader, singer, composer, and television presenter. He was a founder of the band Squeeze and his work has involved him with many artists including Sting, Eric Clapton, George Harrison, The Who, David Gilmour and Bono.Holland is a...
  
  , 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...
  
  , Lulu
  Lulu (singer)
  Lulu Kennedy-Cairns, OBE , best known by her stage name Lulu, is a Scottish singer, actress, and television personality who has been successful in the entertainment business from the 1960s through to the present day...
  
  , Aled Jones
  Aled Jones
  Aled Jones is a Welsh singer and television/radio personality, broadcaster and television presenter who first came to fame as a treble...
  
  , Kelly Jones
  Kelly Jones
  Kelly Jones is a Welsh singer-songwriter and guitarist and the lead singer of the band Stereophonics. Influenced by classic rock bands such as The Who, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and the Sex Pistols, Jones is noted for his strong, gravelly voice, which has been described as "whisky" vocals...
  
  , Charlotte Church
  Charlotte Church
  Charlotte Maria Church is a Welsh singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter. She rose to fame in childhood as a classical singer before branching into pop music in 2005. By 2007, she had sold more than 10 million records worldwide including over 5 million in the United States...
  
  , Katherine Jenkins
  Katherine Jenkins
  Katherine Jenkins is a Welsh mezzo-soprano. She is a classical-popular crossover singer who performs across a spectrum of operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre and hymns.-Early life and education:...
  
  , Feeder
  Feeder
  -Technology:* Feeder , any of several devices used in apiculture to supplement or replace natural food sources* Feeder , another name for a riser, a reservoir built into a metal casting mold to prevent cavities due to shrinkage...
  
  , Snow Patrol
  Snow Patrol
  Snow Patrol are an alternative rock band from Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland. Formed at the University of Dundee in 1994 as an indie rock band, the band is now based in Glasgow...
  
  , Liberty X
  Liberty X
  Liberty X were a British pop vocal group formed by the five contestants eliminated from the final ten qualifiers from the 2001 ITV show Popstars. The group consisted of Tony Lundon, Kevin Simm, Michelle Heaton, Kelli Young and Jessica Taylor...
  
  , Craig David
  Craig David
  Craig Ashley David is an English singer and songwriter. He has released five studio albums: Born to Do It, Slicker Than Your Average, The Story Goes..., Trust Me, Signed Sealed Delivered and a Greatest Hits album...
  
  , Heather Small
  Heather Small
  Heather Small is a British soul singer, best known for being the lead singer in the Manchester based band M People. Her debut solo album was Proud in 2000...
  
  , Keane.
• 14 February - An earthquake with a strength of 3.8 is felt in Llandudno.
• April - Launch of Audiences Wales.
• 2 April - First Minister Rhodri Morgan
  Rhodri Morgan
  Hywel Rhodri Morgan is a Welsh Labour politician who, as First Secretary for Wales, and subsequently First Minister, was leader of the Welsh Assembly Government from 2000 to 2009. A former leader of Welsh Labour, he was the Assembly Member for Cardiff West from 1999 to 2011...
  
   travels to Vietnam
  Vietnam
  Vietnam – sometimes spelled Viet Nam , officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam – is the easternmost country on the Indochina Peninsula in Southeast Asia. It is bordered by China to the north, Laos to the northwest, Cambodia to the southwest, and the South China Sea –...
  
   to take part in a trade mission.
• 9 April - As announced on 10 February, the Prince of Wales married Camilla Parker Bowles; however, she uses the style HRH The Duchess of Cornwall rather than Princess of Wales.
• 27 April - March Networks, a company founded by Sir Terry Matthews
  Terry Matthews
  Sir Terence Hedley Matthews OBE, FIEE, FREng is a Welsh business magnate, serial high tech entrepreneur, and Wales's first billionaire....
  
  , goes IPO.
• 5 May - In the United Kingdom general election, 2005
  United Kingdom general election, 2005
  The United Kingdom general election of 2005 was held on Thursday, 5 May 2005 to elect 646 members to the British House of Commons. The Labour Party under Tony Blair won its third consecutive victory, but with a majority of 66, reduced from 160....
  
  , the Conservative Party win three Welsh constituencies, the first time since 1997 that they had held any parliamentary seats in Wales. In the new Cabinet, Paul Murphy is replaced as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
  Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
  The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, informally the Northern Ireland Secretary, is the principal secretary of state in the government of the United Kingdom with responsibilities for Northern Ireland. The Secretary of State is a Minister of the Crown who is accountable to the Parliament of...
  
  . The Blaenau Gwent People's Voice Group
  Blaenau Gwent People's Voice Group
  The Blaenau Gwent People's Voice Group was a political party based in the Blaenau Gwent area of Wales.The group was formed in the aftermath of the election to the House of Commons of Peter Law as an independent Member of Parliament, beating the official Labour candidate. Peter Law stood against the...
  
   is formed by Peter Law
  Peter Law
  Peter John Law was a Welsh politician.- Labour Co-operative AM and Independent MP :For most of his career Law sat as a Labour Councillor and subsequently Labour Co-operative Assembly Member for Blaenau Gwent...
  
  .
• 6 May - Welsh Secretary, Peter Hain
  Peter Hain
  Peter Gerald Hain is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for the Welsh constituency of Neath since 1991, and has served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, firstly as Leader of the House of Commons under Blair and both Secretary of State for...
  
  , makes a public apology to soprano Katherine Jenkins
  Katherine Jenkins
  Katherine Jenkins is a Welsh mezzo-soprano. She is a classical-popular crossover singer who performs across a spectrum of operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre and hymns.-Early life and education:...
  
   for using her image on election leaflets without her permission. Following the General Election, Hain is also appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, whilst retaining his Wales appointment.
• 21 June - A new exhibition, "Cardiff's Century", opens to commemorate its first hundred years as a city.
• 29 June - Aspers is selected as the casino
  Casino
  In modern English, a casino is a facility which houses and accommodates certain types of gambling activities. Casinos are most commonly built near or combined with hotels, restaurants, retail shopping, cruise ships or other tourist attractions...
  
   operator to invest in Cardiff's planned new £700 million International Sports Village.
• July - A rare Sooty Tern
  Sooty Tern
  The Sooty Tern, Onychoprion fuscatus , is a seabird of the tern family . It is a bird of the tropical oceans, breeding on islands throughout the equatorial zone. Colloquially, it is known as the Wideawake Tern or just wideawake...
  
   is spotted in the Skerries, Anglesey
  The Skerries, Anglesey
  The Skerries are a group of sparsely-vegetated rocky islets, with a total area of about , lying 3 km offshore from Carmel Head at the northwest corner of Anglesey, Wales...
  
  .
• 13 July - The Prince of Wales opens a new building to house the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum
  Narrow Gauge Railway Museum
  The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum is a purpose-built museum dedicated to narrow gauge railways situated at the station of the Talyllyn Railway in Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales....
  
  .
• 30 July - An anti-racism
  Racism
  Racism is the belief that inherent different traits in human racial groups justify discrimination. In the modern English language, the term "racism" is used predominantly as a pejorative epithet. It is applied especially to the practice or advocacy of racial discrimination of a pernicious nature...
  
   rally is held in Cardiff
  Cardiff
  Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
  
   as a result of an attack on the Shah Jalal Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre.
• 5 August - Aled Jones
  Aled Jones
  Aled Jones is a Welsh singer and television/radio personality, broadcaster and television presenter who first came to fame as a treble...
  
   is among those admitted to the Gorsedd
  Gorsedd
  A gorsedd plural gorseddau, is a community or coming together of modern-day bards. The word is of Welsh origin, meaning "throne". It is occasionally spelled gorsedh , or goursez in Brittany....
  
   of bards.
• 17–18 October - National Waterfront Museum
  National Waterfront Museum
  The National Waterfront Museum, Swansea or NWMS is a museum situated in Swansea, Wales, forming part of the National Museum Wales. It is an Anchor Point of ERIH, The European Route of Industrial Heritage....
  
   opens in 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...
  
  .
• 19 October - Liverpool City Council
  Liverpool City Council
  Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside, England. It consists of 90 councillors, three for each of the city's 30 wards. The council is currently controlled by the Labour Party and is led by Joe Anderson.-Domain:...
  
   issues a formal apology for the flooding of the Tryweryn valley to create the reservoir of Llyn Celyn
  Llyn Celyn
  Llyn Celyn is a large reservoir constructed between 1960 and 1965 in the valley of the River Tryweryn in Gwynedd, North Wales. It measures roughly 2½ miles long by a mile wide, and has a maximum depth of...
  
   during the 1950s.
• 28 October - Cardiff
  Cardiff
  Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
  
   celebrates its centenary as a city.
• November - Swansea University
  Swansea University
  Swansea University is a university located in Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom. Swansea University was chartered as University College of Swansea in 1920, as the fourth college of the University of Wales. In 1996, it changed its name to the University of Wales Swansea following structural changes...
  
   announces its new Institute of Advanced Telecommunications (IAT).
• 1 November - The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall arrive in the USA for their first overseas visit since their marriage.
• 1 December - Village of Ystradfellte
  Ystradfellte
  Ystradfellte is a small village in Powys, Wales, in the Fforest Fawr area of the Brecon Beacons National Park.Because of the geography and topography of the area the village of Ystradfellte is not visible from the nearest main road, the A4059 Hirwaun to A470 stretch.Ystradfellte comes under...
  
   connected to mains electricity
  Mains electricity
  Mains is the general-purpose alternating current electric power supply. In the US, electric power is referred to by several names including household power, household electricity, powerline, domestic power, wall power, line power, AC power, city power, street power, and grid power...
  
  , probably the last in Wales
  Wales
  Wales is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and the island of Great Britain, bordered by England to its east and the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea to its west. It has a population of three million, and a total area of 20,779 km²...
  
   to be wired.
• 20 December - On his first visit to Wales as Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron
  David Cameron
  David William Donald Cameron is the current Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, First Lord of the Treasury, Minister for the Civil Service and Leader of the Conservative Party. Cameron represents Witney as its Member of Parliament ....
  
   states that "devolution is here to stay".
• Trinity College, Carmarthen
  Trinity College, Carmarthen
  Trinity University College was a university college in Carmarthen, Wales. In 2010, it merged with the University of Wales, Lampeter to become the new University of Wales, Trinity Saint David.- History :...
  
  , becomes part of the University of Wales
  University of Wales
  The University of Wales was a confederal university founded in 1893. It had accredited institutions throughout Wales, and formerly accredited courses in Britain and abroad, with over 100,000 students, but in October 2011, after a number of scandals, it withdrew all accreditation, and it was...
  
  .
• A Welsh language
  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...
  
   version of Scrabble
  Scrabble
  Scrabble is a word game in which two to four players score points by forming words from individual lettered tiles on a game board marked with a 15-by-15 grid. The words are formed across and down in crossword fashion and must appear in a standard dictionary. Official reference works provide a list...
  
   is marketed for the first time.

Arts and literature

• January
  • Karl Jenkins
    Karl Jenkins
    -Other works:*Adiemus: Live — live versions of Adiemus music*Palladio *Eloise *Imagined Oceans *The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace...
    
     is awarded the OBE
    Order of the British Empire
    The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
    
     in the New Year's Honours List.
  • Sian Pearce becomes the first female musical director of the Morriston Orpheus Choir
    Morriston Orpheus Choir
    The Morriston Orpheus Choir, based in Morriston, near Swansea, Wales, is a male voice choir, one of the best-known in the UK.-History:The Choir was formed on April 23, 1935 by Ivor E. Sims and in its early days concentrated primarily on competitions and local concerts...
    
    .
• 9 April - Celebration Fanfare by the Welsh composer Alun Hoddinott
  Alun Hoddinott
  Alun Hoddinott CBE , was a Welsh composer of classical music, one of the first to receive international recognition.-Life and works:...
  
   is performed at the wedding of the Prince of Wales.
• 17 April - Rhys Ifans
  Rhys Ifans
  Rhys Ifans is a Welsh actor and musician. He is known for his portrayal of characters such as Spike in Notting Hill and Jed Parry in Enduring Love and as a member of the Welsh rock groups Super Furry Animals and The Peth. Ifans also appeared as Xenophilius Lovegood in Harry Potter and the Deathly...
  
   wins the Best Actor award at the British Academy Television Awards
  British Academy Television Awards
  The British Academy Television Awards are presented in an annual award show hosted by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts . They have been awarded annually since 1954, and are analogous to the Emmy Awards in the United States.-Background:...
  
  . Michael Sheen
  Michael Sheen
  Michael Christopher Sheen, OBE , is a Welsh stage and screen actor. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, England and made his professional debut opposite Vanessa Redgrave in When She Danced at the Globe Theatre in 1991...
  
   is also nominated.
• May - Gwyneth Lewis
  Gwyneth Lewis
  Gwyneth Lewis is a Welsh poet, and was the first National Poet for Wales.-Biography:Born into a Welsh speaking family, Lewis's father started teaching her English when her mother went into hospital to give birth to her sister....
  
   becomes the first National Poet for Wales
  National Poet for Wales
  The post of National Poet of Wales was established in May 2005 by Academi – the Welsh National Literature Promotion Agency and Society for Writers. The post is supported by the Arts Council of Wales’ Lottery fund....
  
  .
• 25 May - Katherine Jenkins
  Katherine Jenkins
  Katherine Jenkins is a Welsh mezzo-soprano. She is a classical-popular crossover singer who performs across a spectrum of operatic arias, popular songs, musical theatre and hymns.-Early life and education:...
  
  's album Second Nature is named Album of the Year at the 2005 Classical BRIT Awards
  Classical Brit Awards
  The Classic BRIT Awards are an annual awards ceremony held in the United Kingdom covering aspects of classical music, and are the classical equivalent of pop music's BRIT Awards....
  
  .
• 19 June - The American soprano Nicole Cabell
  Nicole Cabell
  Nicole Cabell , is an American opera singer. She is presently best known as the 2005 winner of the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition....
  
   wins the final of the Cardiff Singer of the World competition for 2005.
• 2 July - Katherine Jenkins and the Stereophonics
  Stereophonics
  The Stereophonics are a Welsh rock band now living in turners x that formed in 1992 in the village of Cwmaman in Cynon Valley, Wales. The band currently comprises lead vocalist and guitarist Kelly Jones, bassist and backing vocalist Richard Jones, drummer Javier Weyler, guitarist and backing...
  
   perform in the Live8 concerts.
• November - Dawn, by Shreepali Patel, is awarded the D. M. Davies Award at the Cardiff Screen Festival.
• December - Connie Fisher
  Connie Fisher
  Connie Fisher is a Welsh actress and singer, who won the BBC One talent contest, How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?...
  
   makes her first professional theatre appearance in panto at Milford Haven
  Milford Haven
  Milford Haven is a town and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales. It is situated on the north side of the Milford Haven Waterway, a natural harbour used as a port since the Middle Ages. The town was founded in 1790 on the north side of the Waterway, from which it takes its name...
  
   Torch Theatre.
• Gillian Clarke
  Gillian Clarke
  Gillian Clarke is a Welsh poet, playwright, editor, broadcaster, lecturer and translator from Welsh.-Life:Clarke was born in Cardiff and brought up in Cardiff and Penarth, though for part of the Second World War she was in Pembrokeshire...
  
   is appointed Cardiff
  Cardiff
  Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
  
  's first "Capital Poet".

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...
  
   - Dr John Davies
  John Davies (historian)
  John Davies is a Welsh historian, and a television and radio broadcaster.Davies was born in the Rhondda, Wales, and studied at both University College, Cardiff, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He is married with four children...
  
  

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Tudur Dylan Jones
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Christine James
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Dylan Iorwerth for Darnau
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Drama Medal - Manon Steffan
• Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen
  Daniel Owen
  Daniel Owen was a Welsh novelist, generally regarded as the foremost Welsh-language novelist of the 19th century.-Early life:...
  
   - Sian Eirian Rhys Davies for I Fyd Sy Well

• 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: Owen Sheers
    Owen Sheers
    Owen Sheers is a Welsh poet, author, playwright, actor and TV presenter.-Biography:Owen Sheers was born in Suva, Fiji in 1974 and brought up in Abergavenny, South Wales...
    
    , The Dust Diaries
  • Welsh language: Caryl Lewis - Martha Jac a Sianco

New books

• Phil Carradice
  Phil Carradice
  Phil Carradice , is a Welsh writer and broadcaster.Carradice was born in Pembroke Dock. He was educated at Cardiff College of Education and Cardiff University, and became a teacher and social worker. After several years as head of Headlands Special School in Penarth, near Cardiff, he retired from...
  
   - Wales at War
• Richard Gwyn - The Colour of a Dog Running Away
• Geraint Griffiths
  Geraint Griffiths
  Geraint Griffiths is a Welsh singer songwriter and actor. He has worked mainly in the Welsh language.-Early life and education:Born in Pontrhydyfen, in the Afan Valley, Wales, Griffiths attended Pontrhydyfen Primary school and then moved across to Ysgol Gymraeg Pontrhydyfen when it opened...
  
   & John Davies - Hewl
• Gavin Henson
  Gavin Henson
  Gavin Lloyd Henson is a Welsh rugby union player, born in Pencoed, South Wales, currently playing for Cardiff Blues.He attracted much media attention as part of a Wales national team which achieved Grand Slams in the Six Nations Championship in 2005 and 2008...
  
   - My Grand Slam Year
• Mererid Hopwood
  Mererid Hopwood
  Mererid Hopwood is a Welsh poet who made history in 2001 by becoming the first woman ever to win the bardic Chair at the National Eisteddfod of Wales....
  
   - Seren Lowri
• Stefan Terlezki
  Stefan Terlezki
  Stefan Terlezki, CBE, was a British Conservative politician who served as Member of Parliament for Cardiff West from 1983 to 1987. Terlezki was born in Oleshiv, a village near the town of Tlumach in what is now western Ukraine but was then part of Poland...
  
   - From War to Westminster
• Nia Medi
  Nia Medi
  Nia Medi is a Welsh actress and author. Originally from Llanfair, near Harlech in North Wales, she now lives in the Dolgellau area.She attended the Normal College in Bangor....
  
   - Omlet

Music

Classical

• Jeffrey Lewis
  Jeffrey Lewis (composer)
  Jeffrey Lewis , is a Welsh composer.Lewis studied at the University of Wales, Cardiff; with György Ligeti and Karlheinz Stockhausen at Darmstadt; with Bogusław Schaeffer in Krakow and with Don Banks in London....
  
   - Sacred Chants

Albums

• Feeder
  Feeder
  -Technology:* Feeder , any of several devices used in apiculture to supplement or replace natural food sources* Feeder , another name for a riser, a reservoir built into a metal casting mold to prevent cavities due to shrinkage...
  
  - Pushing The Senses
• Bullet for My Valentine
  Bullet for My Valentine
  Bullet for My Valentine are a Welsh heavy metal band from Bridgend, formed in 1998. The band is composed of Matt Tuck , Michael Paget , Jason James , and Michael Thomas . They were formed under the name Jeff Killed John and started their music career by covering songs by Metallica and Nirvana...
  
   - The Poison
• Charlotte Church
  Charlotte Church
  Charlotte Maria Church is a Welsh singer-songwriter, actress and television presenter. She rose to fame in childhood as a classical singer before branching into pop music in 2005. By 2007, she had sold more than 10 million records worldwide including over 5 million in the United States...
  
   - Tissues and Issues
• Dave Edmunds
  Dave Edmunds
  David 'Dave' Edmunds is a Welsh singer, guitarist and record producer. Although he is primarily associated with Pub rock and New Wave, and had numerous hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, his natural leaning has always been towards 1950s style rock and roll.-Early bands:As a teenager Edmunds first...
  
   - Alive and Pickin' (album)
• Siân James - Y Ferch o Bedlam
• Llio Rhydderch - Gwenllian

Other

• Mal Pope
  Mal Pope
  Mal Pope , is a Welsh musician and composer, who is especially notable for his contribution to music theatre portraying Welsh national identities and themes...
  
   - Amazing Grace (musical)

Film

• Ioan Gruffudd
  Ioan Gruffudd
  Ioan Gruffudd is a Welsh actor.Trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, he started off in Welsh language film productions, then came to international attention as Fifth Officer Harold Lowe in the film Titanic , and as Lt. John Beales in Black Hawk Down...
  
   stars in Fantastic Four
  Fantastic Four
  The Fantastic Four is a fictional superhero team appearing in comic books published by Marvel Comics. The group debuted in The Fantastic Four #1 , which helped to usher in a new level of realism in the medium...
  
  .
• New Anglo-Welsh suspense film, The Dark
  The Dark (film)
  The Dark is a 2005 horror film, based on the novel Sheep by Simon Maginn.- Plot :While in Wales visiting her husband James , Adele tries to fix her relationship with her obnoxious and volatile pre-teen daughter Sarah...
  
  , stars Sean Bean
  Sean Bean
  Shaun Mark "Sean" Bean is an English film and stage actor. Bean is best known for playing Boromir in The Lord of the Rings Trilogy and, previously, British Colonel Richard Sharpe in the ITV television series Sharpe...
  
  .

Television

• 1 March - S4C
  S4C
  S4C , currently branded as S4/C, is a Welsh television channel broadcast from the capital, Cardiff. The first television channel to be aimed specifically at a Welsh-speaking audience, it is the fifth oldest British television channel .The channel - initially broadcast on...
  
   publishes its first Statement of Programme Policy.
• 21 March - 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...
  
   announces major restructuring.
• 23 April - BAFTA Cymru
  BAFTA Cymru
  BAFTA Cymru is the Welsh branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts.Formed in 1991, they hold an annual awards ceremony to recognise achievement by performers and production staff in Welsh-made films and television programmes...
  
   awards ceremony held at Cardiff International Arena
  Cardiff International Arena
  The Cardiff International Arena was opened on 10 September 1993, by Shirley Bassey, in front of 5,500 fans. On 1 March 2011, the Cardiff International Arena was officially renamed Motorpoint Arena Cardiff, after the car sales company with a branch in Newport bought the naming rights to the Cardiff...
  
  .
• 27 April - Gethin Jones
  Gethin Jones
  Gethin Clifford Jones is a Welsh television presenter who has co-presented the BBC children's programme Blue Peter....
  
   makes his debut as a Blue Peter
  Blue Peter
  Blue Peter is the world's longest-running children's television show, having first aired in 1958. It is shown on CBBC, both in its BBC One programming block and on the CBBC channel. During its history there have been many presenters, often consisting of two women and two men at a time...
  
  presenter.
• 31 May - Iona Jones
  Iona Jones
  Iona Jones is a Welsh television executive, the former head of Welsh language channel S4C.Born in Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire, she was brought up in Lampeter, Ceredigion, before moving to Cardiff with her family when she was six. Jones graduated in economic and social history from Exeter...
  
   is appointed S4C's new Chief Executive.

Welsh-language television

• Con Passionate
  Con Passionate
  Con Passionate is a Welsh language television drama series, written by Siwan Jones and directed by Rhys Powys for S4C. The first two series were Teledu Apollo productions.-Plot:...
  
  (drama)
• Hacio
  Hacio
  Hacio is a Welsh language current affairs television programme for young people which has been broadcast since 2000. It is produced by ITV Cymru and broadcast on Tuesday nights on S4C and aims to address issues and illustrate stories of interest to young people from all parts of Wales and...
  
  (current affairs programme for young people)

English-language television

• Iolo's Welsh Safari 2005 presented by Iolo Williams
  Iolo Williams
  Iolo Tudur Williams is a Welsh nature observer and television presenter, best known for his BBC and S4C nature shows.-Biography:...
  
  
• Welsh Journeys (series 2) presented by Jamie Owen
  Jamie Owen
  Jamie Owen is a Welsh radio and television presenter best known for presenting Wales Today.-Background:Owen was born in Withybush Hospital Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire. His father was a Pembroke Dock Solicitor, James Meyrick Owen and his mother was a health visitor and midwife. Jamie also had two...
  
  
• Big Welsh Challenge (series 1)
• Paul Rhys
  Paul Rhys
  Paul Rhys is a British television, film and theatre actor.Rhys was born in Wales and studied at RADA, leaving with the Bancroft Gold Medal in 1987. While there, he obtained his first major screen role, in Absolute Beginners . Since then he has seldom been off the stage and screen...
  
   stars as Beethoven.
• Doctor Who
  Doctor Who
  Doctor Who is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC. The programme depicts the adventures of a time-travelling humanoid alien known as the Doctor who explores the universe in a sentient time machine called the TARDIS that flies through time and space, whose exterior...
  
  

Cycling

• 27 June - Julian Winn
  Julian Winn
  Julian Winn from Abergavenny, Wales is a former Welsh competitive cyclist who now manages the UCI Continental cycling team Endura Racing. He represented Wales in the 1998 Commonwealth Games at Kuala Lumpur and at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester...
  
  , former Olympic competitor, is named as the new Welsh cycling
  Cycling
  Cycling, also called bicycling or biking, is the use of bicycles for transport, recreation, or for sport. Persons engaged in cycling are cyclists or bicyclists...
  
   national coach.

Rugby Union

• 19 March - The Welsh national team defeats Ireland to win the Six Nations
  2005 Six Nations Championship
  The 2005 RBS 6 Nations Championship was the sixth series of the Six Nations Championship to be held since the competition expanded in 2000 to include Italy...
  
   rugby tournament and secure its first "grand slam" since the 1978.

Deaths

• 23 January - Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare
  Morys Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare
  Morys George Lyndhurst Bruce, 4th Baron Aberdare, KBE, PC, DL was a Conservative politician, and from 1999 until his death, one of ninety-two elected hereditary peers in the British House of Lords...
  
  , 85
• 25 February - Professor Sir 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...
  
  , historian, 84
• 8 March - Alice Thomas Ellis, novelist, 72
• 26 March - James Callaghan
  James Callaghan
  Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, KG, PC , was a British Labour politician, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980...
  
  , Lord Callaghan of Cardiff, former Cardiff MP and prime minister, 92
• 2 April - Trevor Foster
  Trevor Foster
  Trevor J. F. Foster MBE , was a Welsh rugby footballer and coach. He played rugby union for Newport and rugby league for Bradford Northern...
  
  , Rugby League player, 90
• 21 April - Gwynfor Evans
  Gwynfor Evans
  Dr Richard Gwynfor Evans , was a Welsh politician, lawyer and author. President of Plaid Cymru for thirty six years, he was the first Member of Parliament to represent Plaid Cymru at Westminster ....
  
  , first Plaid Cymru MP and leader of the party for 40 years, 92
• 16 May - 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...
  
  , historian, 66
• 17 May - John Griffith Vaughan
  John Griffith Vaughan
  John Griffith Vaughan was a Welsh food scientist. He was an expert in seed science, whose work linked the fields of botany and nutrition....
  
  , seed scientist, 79
• 31 May - Martyn Davies, rugby player
• 19 June - Tich Gwilym
  Tich Gwilym
  Tich Gwilym born Robert Gilliam was a Welsh rock guitarist who was most notable for his Hendrix inspired version of the Welsh national anthem, "Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau", considered one of the most famous renditions of the song....
  
  , musician, 54
• 30 July - Derrick Morris
  Derrick Morris
  Derrick Morris was, at the time of his death, Europe's longest-surviving heart transplant patient.Derrick Morris received his new heart in an operation carried out by Magdi Yacoub at Harefield Hospital in 1980....
  
  , heart transplant survivor, 75
• 20 August - Clifford Williams, actor and director, 78
• 1 October - Peter Hubbard-Miles
  Peter Hubbard-Miles
  Peter Charles Hubbard-Miles was a British Conservative Party politician.Hubbard-Miles was educated at Lewis School in Pengam. From 1967 onwards, he was a member at various times of Glamorgan County Council, Porthcawl Unitary District Council, West Glamorgan County Council and Ogwr Borough Council...
  
  , politician, 78
• 3 October - Jeff Young
  Jeff Young (rugby player)
  Jeffrey "Jeff" Young was a Welsh rugby union player who gained 23 caps for Wales as a hooker between 1968 and 1973....
  
  , rugby player, 63
• 4 November - Wilfred Abse
  Wilfred Abse
  David Wilfred Abse was a Welsh psychiatrist.Abse was born in Cardiff, a brother of the poet Dannie Abse and the politician Leo Abse . An eminent psychoanalyst, Abse spent the greater part of his career in Charlottesville, Virginia where he was a professor of psychiatry at the University of...
  
  , psychoanalyst, 91
• 21 November - Aileen Fox
  Aileen Fox
  Aileen Fox, née Henderson was an English archaeologist.The daughter of a solicitor, she was educated at Downe House School in Kent and later at its new site in Berkshire, under the headship of Olive Willis, and went on to read English at Newnham College, Cambridge...
  
  , archaeologist and widow of Sir Cyril Fox
  Cyril Fox
  Sir Cyril Fred Fox , born, Chippenham, Wiltshire, was an English archaeologist.Cyril Fox became keeper of archaeology at the National Museum of Wales...
  
  , 98