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2001 in Wales

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This article is about the particular significance of the year 2001 to Wales and its people.

Contents

Incumbents

  • Prince of Wales – Charles
  • Princess of Wales – vacant
  • First Minister – Rhodri Morgan
  • Secretary of State for Wales – Paul Murphy
  • Archbishop of Wales – Rowan Williams
  • Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Meirion Evans

    • Events

  • 1 March - Peter Clarke is appointed Children's Commissioner for Wales.
  • 1 June - Official opening of Cardiff Bay Barrage.
  • 7 June - In the UK general election:
  • Plaid Cymru retain a total of 4 seats. They lose Ynys Môn to Labour but Adam Price gains Carmarthen East and Dinefwr from Labour's Alan Wynne Williams.
  • Newly elected Labour MPs include Hywel Francis (Aberavon), Mark Tami (Alyn and Deeside), Wayne David (Caerphilly), Ian Lucas (Wrexham) and Chris Bryant (Rhondda)
  • Kevin Brennan replaces Rhodri Morgan as MP for Cardiff West.
  • 16 June - Entrepreneur Terry Matthews is knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
  • 1 August - Coleg Harlech Workers' Educational Association (North Wales) is created through the merger of The Workers’ Educational Association (North Wales) and Coleg Harlech.
  • 16 September - To commemorate "Glyndwr Day", actress Siân Phillips unveils a memorial statue to Catrin Glyndŵr in London.
  • 11 July - Welsh language pressure group Cymuned is launched at a meeting in Mynytho.
  • 26 October - A memorial service to celebrate the life of Harry Secombe is held at Westminster Abbey and attended by Charles, Prince of Wales.

    • Arts and literature

  • 15 March - Julien Macdonald is chosen as fashion house Givenchy's new designer.
  • 24 March - Opening of the exhibition Let Paul Robeson Sing! in Cardiff.
  • 15 December - Rob Brydon wins Best TV Comedy Actor award in the British Comedy Awards.
  • 25 December - Matthew Rhys and Tom Ward star in a TV adaptation of The Lost World.
  • John Bourne establishes the Wrexham Stuckists group of artists.
  • Jessica Garlick makes the last ten in the first series of Pop Idol.
  • Andrew Vicari sells a collection of 125 paintings of the First Gulf War to Prince Khaled of Saudi Arabia for £17 million.
  • Irish photographer Paul Seawright is awarded a personal chair by the University of Wales, Newport.

    • Awards

  • Prix Hélène Rochas - Rebecca Evans
  • Cardiff Singer of the World - Marius Brenciu
  • Glyndŵr Award - John Meirion Morris

    • National Eisteddfod (held in Denbigh)

  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Mererid Hopwood (first woman ever to win the Chair)
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Penri Roberts
  • National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Elfyn Pritchard
  • Wales Book of the Year:
  • English language: Stephen Knight - Mr Schnitzel
  • Welsh language: Owen Martell - Cadw dy ffydd, brawd
  • Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen -

    • English language

  • Malcolm Pryce - Aberystwyth Mon Amour
  • Alastair Reynolds - Chasm City
  • Jon Ronson - Them: Adventures with Extremists
  • Carole Seymour-Jones - Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot

    • Welsh language

  • Gwynfor Evans - Cymru o Hud
  • Tudur Dylan Jones - Adenydd
  • Angharad Tomos - Cnonyn Aflonydd

    • Music

  • Feeder - Echo Park (album)
  • Hilary Tann - The Grey Tide and the Green, commissioned for the Last Night of the Welsh Proms and performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes.
  • Catatonia - Paper Scissors Stone (album)
  • Goldie Lookin' Chain - Don't Blame the Chain (album)
  • Melys - Chinese Whispers (album)

    • Film

  • John Rhys-Davies makes his first appearance as Gimli in The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring.
  • Sara Sugarman writes and directs Very Annie Mary, featuring Welsh stars such as Jonathan Pryce, Kenneth Griffith, Matthew Rhys, Ioan Gruffudd, Mary Hopkin and Ruth Madoc.
  • Rhys Ifans co-stars in The Shipping News.
  • A Bollywood film, Mein Dil Tujhko Diya (I Gave You my Heart), is shot in Aberystwyth and the Elan Valley.
  • In Gosford Park, Jeremy Northam plays a fictionalised version of Ivor Novello. Several of Novello's songs feature in the film's soundtrack.
  • Nia Roberts stars in A Day Out.

    • Welsh-language films

  • Against the Dying of the Light
  • Y Delyn

    • Welsh-language television

  • Y Stafell Ddirgel (drama serial)

    • English-language television

  • The Bench

    • Sport

  • Football - Liverpool F.C. win the FA Cup the first time it is played in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.
  • Snooker - Mark Williams wins the China Open.

    • Births

  • 23 March - Dream Alliance, racehorse

    • Deaths

  • 11 January - Lorna Sage, critic, 57 (emphysema)
  • 20 January - Crispin Nash-Williams, mathematician, 68
  • 18 February - Claude Davey, Wales international rugby union captain, 92
  • 22 February - Cledwyn Hughes, Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos, former Secretary of State for Wales, 84
  • 11 April - Sir Harry Secombe, singer and comedian, 79
  • 16 April - Henry Morgan Lloyd, clergyman, 89
  • 26 April - Dafydd Rowlands, minister and writer, 69
  • 30 April - Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, poet, critic and politician, 71
  • 25 May - Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone, 67
  • 10 June - Samuel Ifor Enoch, theologian, 86
  • 17 July - Val Feld, the first member of the Welsh Assembly to die, 53 (cancer)
  • 19 July - Roderic Bowen, MP, 87
  • August - Valerie Davies, Olympic swimmer, 89
  • 19 September - Rhys Jones, archaeologist, 60
  • October - John Owen, television writer (suicide)
  • 6 December - Eryl Stephen Thomas, former Bishop of Monmouth and of Llandaff, 91
  • 7 December - Ray Powell, MP, 73

    • References

    2001 in Wales Wikipedia
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