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1982 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1982 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales - Charles
  • Princess of Wales – Diana
  • Secretary of State for Wales – Nicholas Edwards
  • Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor (retired)
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Jâms Nicholas

    • Events

  • 2 January - The Welsh Army of Workers claims responsibility for a bomb explosion at the Birmingham headquarters of Severn Trent Water.
  • May - Swansea City complete their first season in the English Football League First Division with a sixth-place finish.
  • 2 June - 100,000 people gather in Pontcanna Fields, Cardiff, to welcome Pope John Paul II on the first-ever papal visit to Wales.
  • 8 June - 32 men from the Welsh Guards are killed when the Sir Galahad burns during the Falklands War. The most famous of the survivors is Simon Weston, who is severely burned.
  • 16 June - Welsh miners go on strike to support health workers demanding a 12% pay rise.
  • 30 August - St David's Hall opens in Cardiff.
  • 11 September - 14 skydivers from Wales die when a Chinook helicopter crashes at an airshow in Mannheim in Germany.
  • 16 September - At the Gower by-election brought about by the death of Ifor Davies, Gareth Wardell holds the seat for Labour.
  • 17 October - First issue of Sulyn, the first Sunday newspaper in the Welsh language.
  • A monument is erected at Gresford in memory of those who died in the Gresford Disaster of 1934.
  • The Inmos microprocessor factory in Newport, Wales, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, is completed.
  • Swansea is given the right to have a Lord Mayor.
  • First students begin courses at the Welsh language study centre at Nant Gwrtheyrn.

    • Arts and literature

  • Roger Rees wins a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
  • Alice Thomas Ellis is shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The 27th Kingdom.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Swansea)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Gerallt Lloyd Owen
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Eirwyn George
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Gwilym M. Jones

    • New books

  • Gwynfor Evans - Bywyd Cymro
  • Alun Jones - Pan Ddaw'r Machlud
  • R. Merfyn Jones - The North Wales Quarrymen 1874-1922
  • Rhiannon Davies Jones - Eryr Pengwern
  • Kenneth O. Morgan - Rebirth of a Nation: Wales 1880-1980
  • Wynford Vaughan-Thomas - Princes of Wales

    • Music

  • John Cale - Music For A New Society (album)
  • Dafydd Iwan with Ar Log - Rhwng Hwyl a Thaith

    • Film

  • Political Annie’s Off Again, film of a local industrial dispute made by Chapter Video Workshop.

    • Welsh-language television

  • Cefn Gwlad
  • Joni Jones
  • Noson Lawen appears for the first time.
  • S4C starts broadcasting on 1 November

    • English-language television

  • The Citadel (BBC), filmed in Tredegar.

    • Sport

  • Boxing
  • 14 September - Kelvin Smart becomes British flyweight champion after beating fellow Welsh fighter Dave George.
  • Darts - Ann-Marie Davies wins the Women's World Masters Championship.
  • Snooker - Terry Parsons wins the World Amateur Championship. Terry Griffiths wins the UK Open and the Mercantile Classic.

    • Births

  • 1 February - Gavin Henson, rugby player
  • 4 February - Kevin Gall, footballer
  • 2 May - Timothy Benjamin, athlete
  • 12 May - David Thaxton, actor and singer
  • 21 June - Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, son of the Prince and Princess of Wales
  • 29 August - Mike Phillips, rugby player
  • 2 September - Matthew Rees, footballer
  • 29 November - Imogen Thomas, model
  • 25 December - Rob Edwards, footballer
  • date unknown - Amanda Hale, actress

    • Deaths

  • 5 January - Janetta Thomas, UK's oldest person and oldest Welsh-born woman of all time, 112
  • 11 January - Ronald Lewis, actor, 53
  • 5 February - Ronald Welch, historical novelist, 72
  • 8 February - Cedric Morris, artist, 92
  • 6 May - Jennie Eirian Davies, politician and magazine editor
  • 19 May - Elwyn Jones, television writer, 58
  • 31 May - Eryl Davies, educationist, 59
  • 6 June - Ifor Davies, politician, 71
  • 10 July
  • Gwilym Jenkins (in Lancaster), statistician and systems engineer, 49
  • Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen, philosopher, 60
  • 17 July - Bob John, footballer, 83
  • 16 August - Sydney Hinam, Wales international rugby player, 83
  • 18 October - James Idwal Jones, politician, 82
  • 19 October - Iorwerth Peate, founder of St Fagans National History Museum, 81
  • 4 November - Talfryn Thomas, comedy actor, 60
  • 16 November - Ivor Jones, rugby union international, 80
  • 19 November - Herbie Evans, footballer, 88
  • 4 December - Ivor Williams, artist, 74

    • References

    1982 in Wales Wikipedia
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