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1946 in Wales

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Centuries:
  
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Decades:
  
1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1946 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales – vacant
  • Princess of Wales – vacant
  • Archbishop of Wales – David Prosser, Bishop of St David's
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Crwys

    • Events

  • 12 July – The Coal Industry Nationalisation Act is passed by Parliament.
  • August
  • Arthur Horner becomes General Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers.
  • Stocks of captured Nazi German bombs filled with Tabun (nerve agent) begin to be transferred from Llanberis to open storage at RAF Llandwrog.
  • November – The highest ever temperature for this month in the UK is recorded at Prestatyn: 71 °F (21.7 °C).
  • December - George Isaacs inaugurates the first Remploy factory, in Bridgend, with the aim of offering work to disabled ex-servicement.
  • A pneumoconiosis research unit is established at Llandough Hospital near Cardiff, in recognition of the damage being caused to miners' health.

    • Arts and literature

  • In the absence of a Prince of Wales, The Princess Elizabeth, heir presumptive to the throne, is admitted to the Gorsedd.
  • The Welsh National Opera is founded.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Mountain Ash)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Geraint Bowen
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Rhydwen Williams
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Dafydd Jenkins

    • Welsh language

  • Pennar Davies – Cinio'r Cythraul
  • Albert Evans-Jones (Cynan) – Ffarwel Weledig
  • Thomas Rowland Hughes – Chwalfa
  • John Gwilym Jones – Y Goeden Erin

    • English language

  • Caradoc Evans – The Earth Gives All and Takes All
  • Emyr Humphreys – Little Kingdom
  • Dylan Thomas – Deaths and Entrances
  • Gwyn Thomas – The Dark Philosophers

    • Music

  • Daniel Jones – Scenes from the Mabinogion

    • Film

  • London Town featuring Tessie O'Shea

    • Sport

  • Boxing – Wales stages its first-ever world title fight, in which lightweight Ronnie James is defeated by Ike Williams.

    • Births

  • 10 January - Terry Cobner, rugby player
  • 15 January – Roger Davis, cricketer
  • 31 January – Bobby Windsor, rugby player
  • 20 February – Mike Roberts, Wales and British Lion rugby player
  • 21 March – Timothy Dalton, actor
  • 2 April – Dai Llewellyn, socialite (d. 2009)
  • 5 April – Russell Davies, journalist and broadcaster
  • 13 April – Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
  • 19 May – Androw Bennett, writer
  • 6 June - Hywel Francis, politician
  • 14 June – Glyn Berry, diplomat
  • 6 August – Ron Davies, politician
  • 12 August – Andrew McNeillie, poet and literary editor
  • 3 October – Richie Morgan, professional footballer and manager
  • 18 October – Dafydd Elis-Thomas, politician
  • 26 November – Brian Hibbard, actor and singer (died 2012)
  • 27 November – Kim Howells, politician
  • 9 December- Mervyn Davies, rugby player (died 2012)
  • date unknown – Tony Curtis, poet

    • Deaths

  • 23 January – William Evans, Wales dual code international rugby player, 62
  • 25 April – Arthur Jenkins, MP for Pontypool
  • 14 March – Reg Thomas, athlete, 39
  • 25 May – Ernest Rhys ("Mr Everyman"), writer, 86
  • 1 June – Arthur Griffith-Boscawen, politician, 80
  • 4 July - Taffy O'Callaghan, footballer, 39
  • 15 July – William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician, 75
  • 12 August – Alfred Augustus Mathews, vicar and Wales international rugby player, 82
  • 4 November – Bill Morris, Wales international rugby player, 77
  • 5 November – Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, author and patron of the arts in Wales, 66
  • 24 November – Sydney Nicholls, Wales rugby international player, 78
  • 6 December – Charles Butt Stanton MP, politician, 73
  • date unknown
  • William Egan, footballer, 73 or 74
  • Vulcana, strongwoman, 70 or 71
  • Morris Williams, publisher, husband and collaborator of Kate Roberts

    • References

    1946 in Wales Wikipedia
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