1991 in Wales

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