1967 in Wales

Incumbents

Prince of Wales – Charles

Princess of Wales – vacant

Secretary of State for Wales – Cledwyn Hughes

Archbishop of Wales – Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth (retired)

Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – E. Gwyndaf Evans

Events

20 February - The first Royal Mail postbus in Britain runs between Llanidloes and Llangurig.

5 May - The Brynglas Tunnels on the M4 motorway by-passing Newport are opened.

27 July - The Welsh Language Act allows the use of Welsh in legal proceedings and official documents.

7 August - Two men and a boy are drowned in the Dyfi estuary.

August - The Beatles, along with Mick Jagger, Cilla Black, and Jane Asher, come to Bangor to attend a seminar by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. Their visit is cut short by the shock news of manager Brian Epstein's death.

18 December - Newtown, Montgomeryshire, is designated as a New Town. The River Severn is re-channelled to prevent the town becoming further damaged by floods.

The Gittins Report on Primary Education in Wales recommends that "every child should be given sufficient opportunity to be reasonably bilingual by the end of the primary stage".

Merched y Wawr is founded in the village of Parc near Bala.

The University of Wales Institute of Science and Technology (UWIST) in Cardiff becomes part of the University of Wales.

Foot and Mouth Disease breaks out in North Wales and parts of England.

Rhodri Morgan marries fellow Welsh Labour MP Julie Edwards.

The former Royal Navy Propellant Factory, Caerwent, RAF Caerwent weapons storage facility, is transferred to United States administration.

The Passport Office comes to Newport and the Land Registry to Swansea, as part of a United Kingdom government effort to move government offices into the regions.

Clywedog Reservoir completed.

Arts and literature

The first Welsh pantomime is put on by Theatr Felinfach, based on the life of Twm Siôn Cati.

Rhys Davies wins an Edgar Allan Poe Award for his story "The Chosen One", originally published in The New Yorker.

The publisher Y Lolfa is established by Robat Gruffudd in Tal-y-bont, Ceredigion.

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Bala)

National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Emrys Roberts

National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Eluned Phillips

National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld

New books

Hydwedd Boyer - I'r Ynysoedd

Alan Garner - The Owl Service

Bill Meilen - The Division

Leslie Norris - The Loud Winter

Brinley Richards - Cerddi'r Dyffryn

Kate Roberts - Tegwch y Bore

Bertrand Russell - War Crimes in Vietnam

William Nantlais Williams - O Gopa Bryn Nefo

New drama

Saunders Lewis - Cymru Fydd

Music

Hogia'r Wyddfa - Tylluanod (album)

Mary Hopkin - Mae Pob Awr

Arwel Hughes - Mab y Dyn (cantata)

Jeffrey Lewis - Epitaphium - Children of the Sun

William Mathias - Sinfonietta

Toni ac Aloma - Caffi Gaerwen

Y Triban - Paid â dodi dadi ar y dôl

Y Blew - Maes B

Film

Richard Burton stars in The Taming of the Shrew opposite his wife Elizabeth Taylor.

Carry On up the Khyber is filmed in North Wales.

Welsh-language television

Hob y Deri Dando; Disc a Dawn

English-language television

Conqueror's Road (drama series)

The Shepherds of Moel Siabod (documentary)

The Prisoner, filmed at Portmeirion

The cast and crew of Doctor Who film the serial The Abominable Snowmen at Nant Ffrancon, doubling for Tibet.

Sport

Boxing - Howard Winstone is beaten by Mexico's Vincente Saldivar at Ninian Park, Cardiff.

Cricket - Glamorgan County Cricket Club moves to a new home at Sophia Gardens, Cardiff.

Cross-country - The 1967 International Cross Country Championships are held at Barry.

Gymnastics - Bobby Williams of Swansea is British champion.

Rugby union - Barry John and Gareth Edwards make their international debut.

Swimming - Paul Radmilovic is the first Briton to be elected to the American Swimming Hall of Fame.

BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year - Howard Winstone

Births

7 February – Richie Burnett, darts player

16 February – Eluned Morgan, Baroness Morgan of Ely, politician

18 February – Colin Jackson CBE, athlete

22 February – Wayne Curtis, footballer

21 March – Carwyn Jones, politician

27 March – Bob Morgan, Olympic diver

5 April - Andy Allen, rugby player

8 April - Arwyn Davies, Welsh actor

10 May – Jon Ronson, journalist and documentary filmmaker

9 July - Richard Webster, rugby player

22 July – Rhys Ifans, actor and musician

7 September – Steve James, cricketer

13 October - Steve O'Shaughnessy, footballer

12 November – Grant Nicholas, musician

18 November – Zoë Skoulding, poet and musician

27 November – Geraint Rees, neurologist

date unknown

Robert Huw Morgan, organist and choral conductor

(in Bolton) – Paul Pritchard, climber

Deaths

15 January – Sir Cyril Fox, archaeologist, 84

22 January – Idris Bell, papyrologist and author, 87

28 January – Cliff Davies, Wales international rugby player, 47

14 February – Gwilym Lloyd George, 1st Viscount Tenby, politician, 70

11 March – Ivor Rees, Victoria Cross recipient, 73

5 May – Owen Thomas Jones, geologist, 89

29 July – Jack Wetter, Wales international rugby union captain, 79

30 July – George Littlewood Hirst, Wales international rugby player, 77

15 September – Rhys Gabe, Wales international rugby union captain, 87

8 October – Vernon Watkins, poet, 61

9 October – Edward Tegla Davies, clergyman and writer, 87

29 October - Bobbie Williams, rugby player, 71?

2 November – Robert John Rowlands ("Meuryn"), poet, 87

25 November – Tom Parker, Welsh international rugby union captain, 76

12 December – Tommy Bamford, footballer, 62

date unknown - Len Apsey, footballer, 57