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1991 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1991 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales – Charles
  • Princess of Wales – Diana
  • Secretary of State for Wales – David Hunt
  • Archbishop of Wales
  • George Noakes, Bishop of St David's (retired)
  • Alwyn Rice Jones, Bishop of St Asaph
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Ap Llysor

    • Events

  • 6 January - A Maltese tanker, the Kimya, capsizes off the Anglesey coast. Ten crew members are drowned.
  • January - Two Welsh soldiers are among those killed in the first Gulf War.
  • 4 April - Peter Hain is elected as MP for Neath in a by-election caused by the death of the sitting MP, Donald Coleman.
  • 16 May - Huw Edwards is elected as MP for Monmouth in a by-election caused by the death of the sitting MP, Sir John Stradling Thomas.
  • 23 May - A memorial to Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd is dedicated at Kidwelly Castle.
  • 19 July - Dean Saunders, 27-year-old Welsh international striker, becomes the most expensive player to be signed by a British club when a £2.9million fee takes him from Derby County to Liverpool, who have broken the record fee in British football for the third time in four years.
  • August–September - Cardiff Ely Bread Riots: A dispute between two shopkeepers escalates into four consecutive nights of rioting in the Ely district of Cardiff.
  • 16 October - Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs, who turns 18 at the end of the following month, becomes the youngest full international for the Welsh national team against Germany in Nuremberg.
  • 25 October - Official opening of Conwy Crossing (immersed tube tunnel) to road traffic as part of A55 Conwy Bypass.
  • Welshman Eric Jones is one of a team of four who make the first hot-air balloon flight over Mount Everest.
  • The Welsh Office proposes an M4 relief road between Magor and Castleton.

    • Arts and literature

  • August - Simultaneous translation facilities are made available for the first time at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
  • 1 September - Cantorion Colin Jones is founded in Wrexham.
  • The first Pacific Northwest Welsh Weekend is held at Seattle.
  • Wyn Calvin becomes the first Welshman to be elected King Rat of the Order of Water Rats.

    • Awards

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Mold, with record attendance of 164,100)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Robin Llwyd ab Owain
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Einir Jones
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Angharad Tomos, Si Hei Lwli
  • Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen -

    • English language

  • A Cardiff Anthology
  • Phil Rickman - Candlenight

    • Welsh language

  • Robat Arwyn & Robin Llwyd ab Owain - Gwin Beaujolais
  • Pennar Davies - Gwas y Gwaredwr
  • Glyn Tegai Hughes - Daniel Owen a Natur y Nofel
  • Saunders Lewis - Williams Pantycelyn
  • Prys Morgan - Brad y Llyfrau Gleision

    • Music

  • Datblygu - Blwch Tymer Tymor
  • Y Cyrff - Llawenydd Heb Ddiwedd (album)
  • Bonnie Tyler - Bitterblue (album)

    • Welsh-language films

  • Elenya
  • Un Nos Ola Leuad

    • English-language television

  • Joshua Jones (children's programme made by S4C)
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones makes her first appearance in The Darling Buds of May.

    • Welsh-language television

  • Gemau Heb Ffiniau

    • Sport

  • Football
  • 5 June - Wales defeat Germany in the UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying tournament.
  • Golf - Ian Woosnam wins the US Masters at Augusta, Georgia, becoming the first Welshman to win a major tournament.
  • Rugby union - Neil Jenkins plays his first rugby match for Wales, at the age of 19.

    • Births

  • 21 January - Craig Roberts, actor
  • 28 January - Ffion Bowen, rugby union winger
  • 4 February - Fred Evans, boxer
  • 28 March - David Cornell, footballer
  • 12 April - Ashley Richards, footballer
  • 24 May - Aled Davies, athlete
  • 5 July - Michael White, snooker player
  • 3 October - Jenny McLoughlin, athlete
  • 20 October - Nathaniel Jarvis, footballer
  • 29 November - Becky James, cyclist

    • Deaths

  • 14 January - Donald Coleman, politician, 65
  • 30 January - Rhys Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Kilgerran, politician, 83
  • 10 February - Rowe Harding, rugby player, 89
  • 19 February - Tom Rees, Wales international rugby player, 77
  • 24 March - Maudie Edwards, actress and singer, 84
  • 29 March - John Stradling Thomas, politician, 65
  • 15 May - Ronald Lacey, English actor of Welsh descent, 55
  • 12 August - Edward George Bowen, CBE, physicist, 80
  • 23 August - Innes Lloyd, TV producer, 66
  • 26 August - John Petts, artist, 77
  • 31 August - Idwal Rees, Wales rugby union captain, 81
  • October - Seymour Morris, footballer, 78
  • 13 October - Donald Houston, actor, 67
  • 5 November - Gwenlyn Parry, dramatist, 59
  • 15 December - Ray Smith, actor, 55
  • 22 December - Jim Lang, Wales rugby union player, 82
  • date unknown
  • Robert Roland Hughes, neurologist
  • Evan Roberts, conservationist

    • References

    1991 in Wales Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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