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1996 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1996 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales – Charles
  • Princess of Wales – Diana (until 28 August divorce)
  • Secretary of State for Wales – William Hague
  • Archbishop of Wales – Alwyn Rice Jones, Bishop of St Asaph
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
  • John Gwilym Jones (outgoing)
  • Dafydd Rowlands (incoming)

    • Events

  • 15 February - The Sea Empress, an oil tanker, runs aground off Milford Haven, causing devastation to the west Wales coastline.
  • 1 April - The Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 comes into force, creating 22 unitary authorities.
  • 3 April - The first EuroHowl is held in Aberystwyth, Wales.
  • 29 June - The Prince's Trust concert in Hyde Park, London is attended by 150,000 people.
  • 18 July - Howard Hughes is sentenced to life imprisonment at Chester Crown Court for the rape and murder of 7-year-old Sophie Hook at Llandudno 12 months previously. The trial judge recommends that Hughes, 31, should never be released.
  • 28 August - The Prince and Princess of Wales, are formally divorced at the High Court of Justice in London, the first time in history that a Prince of Wales has successfully gone through a divorce. By negotiation, Her Royal Highness The Princess of Wales is restyled, Diana, Princess of Wales.
  • November - The Owain Glyndŵr Society is founded.
  • Michael German is awarded the OBE for his public and political service.
  • The Church in Wales ordains its first women priests.
  • South Wales Constabulary changes its name to South Wales Police.

    • Arts and literature

  • Sir Anthony Hopkins opens the Cliff Tucker Theatre at the University of Wales, Lampeter.
  • Alice Thomas Ellis is dismissed as a columnist on the Catholic Herald newspaper because of her attack on the reputation of the late Archbishop Derek Worlock.
  • Steve Balsamo stars in a West End revival of Jesus Christ Superstar.

    • Awards

  • Glyndŵr Award - Jan Morris
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Ffairfach, near Llandeilo)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - R. O. Williams
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - David John Pritchard
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld
  • Wales Book of the Year:
  • English language: Nigel Jenkins, Gwalia in Khasia
  • Welsh language:
  • Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen - Eirug Wyn, Smoc Gron Bach

    • New books

  • Ron Berry - This Bygone
  • Ruth Bidgood - The Fluent Moment
  • Gillian Clarke - The Whispering Room
  • Keith Kissack - The Lordship, Parish and Borough of Monmouth
  • Howard Marks - Mr Nice
  • Kenneth Morris - The Dragon Path
  • Tim Rishton - Liturgisk orgelspill

    • Film

  • Prince Valiant filmed at Gwrych Castle.

    • Music

  • John Cale - Walking on Locusts
  • Peter Maxwell Davies - The Doctor of Myddfai (opera)
  • Gillian Elisa - Rhywbeth yn y Glas.
  • Karl Jenkins - Diamond Music
  • Donna Lewis - Now in a Minute
  • Super Furry Animals - Fuzzy Logic.

    • Broadcasting

  • The Broadcasting Act 1996 changes the funding formula for S4C.

    • Welsh-language television

  • Heno (Welsh-language news programme, broadcast until 2001)

    • English-language television

  • Barry Welsh is Coming
  • In the Blood, presented by Steve Jones

    • Football

  • The Welsh Football Trust is founded.
  • Llansantffraid F.C. win the Welsh Cup and are offered sponsorship by Total Network Solutions.

    • Births

  • 25 February - Laura Halford, Rhythmic gymnast

    • Deaths

  • 16 January - Dai Ward, footballer, 61
  • 7 March - Aled Eames, historian, 74
  • 11 March - Sir Granville Beynon, physicist, 81
  • 14 March - Dewi Bebb, Wales rugby union player, 57
  • 16 March - Harry Peacock, Wales rugby union player, 87
  • 14 April - Mervyn Levy, artist and critic, 81
  • 27 July - Billy Rees, footballer, 72
  • 5 September - Clem Thomas, rugby player, 67
  • 24 September - I. E. S. Edwards, Egyptologist, 87
  • 26 October - Huw Owen, theologian and academic, 69
  • 10 November - Dafydd Orwig, politician and academic, 68
  • 9 December
  • Diana Morgan, playwright and screenwriter, 86
  • Ivor Roberts-Jones, sculptor, 83
  • 29 December - Pennar Davies, poet and theologian, 85
  • date unknown
  • Thomas Nathaniel Davies, artist and teacher
  • Thomas David Frank Evans, WWII prisoner-of-war
  • Harry Hanford, footballer, 88

    • References

    1996 in Wales Wikipedia
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