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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1978 to Wales and its people.
Prince of Wales – Charles
Princess of Wales – vacant
Secretary of State for Wales – John Morris
Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
R. Bryn Williams (outgoing)
Geraint (Bowen) (incoming)
The Welsh Office is given responsibility for further and higher education in Wales.
The National Language Centre is established at Nant Gwrtheyrn in the Lleyn peninsula.
Closure of the steelworks in Ebbw Vale and East Moors.
Arts and literature
Richard Burton records the narrative for the concept album Jeff Wayne's Musical Version of The War of the Worlds.
Operatic contralto Helen Watts is awarded the CBE.
Gregynog Press reincarnated as Gwasg Gregynog.
National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Cardiff)
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - withheld
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Siôn Eirian
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Harri Williams
Ruth Bidgood - The Print of Miracle
Marion Eames - Sianyn a Siarli
Ken Follett - Eye of the Needle
James Hanley - A Kingdom
Robert Minhinnick - A Thread in the Maze
John Tripp - Collected Poems
T. Arfon Williams - Englynion Arfon
Dave Edmunds - Tracks on Wax 4
Geraint Jarman - Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau
Kenneth Griffith appears with Richard Burton in The Wild Geese.
Shane becomes the first film to be dubbed into the Welsh language for television.
17 March - BBC Wales comedy film Grand Slam stars Hugh Griffith and Windsor Davies.
BBC Wales drama serial Hawkmoor, based on the life of Twm Siôn Cati, stars John Ogwen and Jane Asher.
Elaine Morgan's adaptation of Off to Philadelphia in the Morning, the novel by Jack Jones, stars David Lyn as Joseph Parry and Connie Booth as his wife Jane. Meredith Edwards, Rachel Thomas and William Squire also appear.
Boxing - Johnny Owen wins the Commonwealth bantamweight title.
Darts - Leighton Rees wins the World Professional Darts Championship.
Rugby union - Wales win their eighth Grand Slam.
Snooker - Doug Mountjoy wins the UK Open Championship.
1 February - David Hughes, footballer
12 February - Gethin Jones, television presenter
17 May - Joanna Page, actress
8 July - Eve Myles, actress
17 November - Tom Ellis, actor
25 December - Simon Jones, cricketer
date unknown
David Llewellyn, author
Rachel Trezise, author
11 January - William John Edwards, Cerdd Dant singer
4 April - Sir Morien Morgan, aeronautics engineer
9 April - Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, architect
14 April - Thomas Hollingdale, Wales rugby union international, 77
16 April - Eddie Morgan, Wales international rugby player, 64
18 May - Selwyn Lloyd, politician
2 July - Philip S. Yorke, last Squire of Erddig
12 September - Bobby Delahay, Wales rugby union captain
16 December - Harry Phillips, Wales international rugby player, 75
date unknown - David Williams, historian
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