1971 in Wales

none 1971 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1971 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1971 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Secretary of State for Wales – Peter Thomashttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2008/feb/06/conservatives.uk Obituary The Guardian 6 February 2008 Archbishop of Wales Glyn Simon, Bishop of Llandaff (retired)Who was who https://books.google.com/books?id=HT4OAQAAMAAJ 1971 A. & C. Black 728 978-0-312-87746-0 Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor (elected)Norman Doe A New History of the Church in Wales: Governance and Ministry, Theology and Society https://books.google.com/books?id=xlTMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA109 5 March 2020 Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49957-6 109 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – TilsliMeic Stephens The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=P51iAAAAMAAJ April 1986 Oxford University Press 589 978-0-19-211586-7 Events February - Harold Charles becomes Bishop of St Asaph.The Times, 4 February 1971; pg. 16; Issue 58090; col D Church news 6 May - Singer Dickie Valentine is killed in a car accident on the Glangrwyney bridge near Crickhowell.Neil Sean Live from the London Palladium: The World's Most Famous Theatre in the Words of the Stars Who Have Played There https://books.google.com/books?id=8ADCBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT35 15 November 2014 Amberley Publishing Limited 978-1-4456-4329-8 35June 2024 28 May - Opening of the Llanberis Lake Railway.Andrew Wilson Narrow Gauge Railways of North Wales Tempus 2003 9780752427881 89 1 August - It becomes legal to register marriages in the Welsh language.Statutory instruments https://books.google.com/books?id=fYJQAQAAIAAJ 1971 date unknown The Welsh Nursery Schools Movement is founded in Aberystwyth.Gearóid Mac Eoin Anders Ahlqvist Donncha Ó hAodha Third International Conference on Minority Languages: Celtic Papers https://books.google.com/books?id=2cnHrKpluqEC&pg=PA58 1987 Multilingual Matters 978-0-905028-64-4 58 Anglesey Aluminium opens its smelting plant on the outskirts of Holyhead.James R. King The Aluminium Industry https://books.google.com/books?id=zlakAgAAQBAJ&pg=RA1-PA46 23 February 2001 Elsevier 978-1-85573-876-8 1 Wylfa Nuclear Power Station becomes operational.http://www.industcards.com/nuclear-uk-sc-wl.htm http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20090719124719/http%3A//www.industcards.com/nuclear%2Duk%2Dsc%2Dwl.htm usurped Nuclear Power Plants in the UK - Scotland and Wales 19 July 2009 Arts and literature Mary Hopkin marries record producer Tony Visconti. Welsh performers participate in the first Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Brittany. Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Bangor) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Emrys Roberts, "Y Chwarelwr"https://eisteddfod.cymru/amdanom-ni-archif/enillwyr-y-gadair cy Enillwyr y Gadair Eisteddfod 13 June 2024 3 March 2024 https://web.archive.org/web/20240303193857/https://eisteddfod.cymru/amdanom-ni-archif/enillwyr-y-gadair dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Bryan Martin Davies, "Y Golau Caeth"https://eisteddfod.wales/crown-winners Crown Winners Eisteddfod 13 June 2024 National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Ifor Wyn Williams New books English language Rhys Davies - Nobody Answered the BellOsborne, Huw Edwin Rhys Davies University of Wales Press 2009 9780708322420 136 John L. Hughes - Tom Jones Slept HereThe Oxford Companion to the Literature of Wales Oxford University Press 1986 9780192115867 269 Welsh language Islwyn Ffowc Elis - Y Gromlech yn yr Haidd Gwynfor Evans - Aros Mae Tudor Wilson Evans - Ar Gae'r Brêc Beti Hughes - Aderyn o Ddyfed Alan Llwyd - Y March Hud Eluned Phillips - Cofiant Dewi EmrysMeic Stephens The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=P51iAAAAMAAJ April 1986 Oxford University Press 476 Gwyn Thomas - Y Bardd Cwsg a'i Gefndir Music John Cale & Terry Riley - Church of AnthraxDr Keith Potter Dr Pwyll ap Siôn Professor Kyle Gann The Ashgate Research Companion to Minimalist and Postminimalist Music https://books.google.com/books?id=HlOiAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT495 28 December 2013 Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. 978-1-4724-0278-3 495 Man - Do You Like It Here Now, Are You Settling In? Iris Williams - Pererin Wyf (single) Film Merthyr Tydfil is one of the locations used for the filming of 10 Rillington Place.Rhianwen Long Merthyr Tydfil Through Time https://books.google.com/books?id=oR78AwAAQBAJ&pg=PT67 15 April 2014 Amberley Publishing Limited 978-1-4456-1833-3 67 Ruth Madoc appears in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof. Welsh-language films None Broadcasting Welsh-language television Max Boyce appears on the Welsh-language music show, Disc a Dawn.Gareth Price Broadcasters of BBC Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=R0xxDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT64 12 January 2018 Y Lolfa 978-1-78461-535-2 64 English-language television Comedy duo Ryan Davies and Ronnie Williams transfer their successful Welsh language show to BBC1. 22 March - Sesame Streets UK debut is on HTV. 14 April - Nerys Hughes gets her big break in The Liver Birds, first aired on this date. Sport BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year - John Dawes, Wales national rugby union teen and Welsh LionsBBC Wales Sport Personality winners BBC Sport 10 December 2012 https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20670643 29 July 2021 Cricket - May: In a Glamorgan home match at Sophia Gardens, Roger Davis is struck on the temple while fielding at short leg and survives largely thanks to the intervention of Dr Colin Lewis (grandfather of Rhydian Roberts).https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/glamorgan-cricketer-roger-davis-how-8189204 Glamorgan cricketer Roger Davis on how he nearly suffered same fate as Phil Hughes - but was saved by Rhydian Roberts' grandfather 24 November 2014 James Rothwell WalesOnline 30 September 2019 Gymnastics - Pam Hopkins wins the British Women's Championship. Rugby union - Wales win their sixth Grand Slam. Sailing - Nicolette Milnes-Walker becomes the first woman to sail non-stop single-handed across the Atlantic. Births 11 January - Tom Ward, actor 16 January - Damian Walford Davies and Jason Walford Davies (twins), academics and poetsnr95040812 2026-06-06 23 January - Scott Gibbs, rugby player 19 March (in Taunton) - Kirsty Williams, politicianhttps://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/uk/wales/13111.stm UK: Wales: AMs BBC News 30 September 2019 2 April - Chico Slimani, singerhttps://companycheck.co.uk/director/905474972/YOUSSEPH-SLIMANI/summary Mr Yousseph Chico Slimani Company Check 7 December 2019 18 June - Lucy Owen, née Cohen, television news presenter 8 July - Neil Jenkins, rugby playerhttp://www.wru.co.uk/2634_9535.php Wales profile 2022-05-26 2008-07-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20080720110823/http://www.wru.co.uk/2634_9535.php bot: unknown 18 August (in Limerick) - Aphex Twin, musician 8 September - Martyn Margetson, footballer 3 October - Zoe Lyons, comedian 26 October - Damon Searle, footballer 5 November Chris Addison, Cardiff-born comedian"Chris Addison: The thinking man's comic adjusts to fame" The Independent (13 November 2011). Retrieved 30 September 2019 Rob Jones, footballer 18 December - Jason Hughes, actor date unknown Eleri Siôn, née Jones, media presenter Deaths 2 January – Harold Jones, convicted murderer, 64https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-45044159 Murdered Abertillery Girl's Niece Learnt About Tragedy in Book 11 September 2018 BBC.co.uk 4 August 2018 12 January – Gwenan Jones, historian and politician, 81s10-JONE-GWE-1889 Jones, Gwenan (1889-1971), educationalist and author Nerys Ann Jones 30 September 2019 4 March – Ifan Gruffydd ("Y Gŵr o Baradwys"), author, 75s6-GRUF-IFA-1896 Gruffydd, Ifan (1896-1971), author Bedwyr Lewis Jones yes 2 July 2019 8 March – Harold Lloyd, American comedy actor of Welsh descent, 77Died http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904932,00.html https://web.archive.org/web/20081221204137/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,904932,00.html dead December 21, 2008 March 22, 1971 June 8, 2008 Harold Lloyd, Bespectacled Film Comic, Dies of Cancer at 77 https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/601315582.html Comedian Harold Lloyd, 77, who bumbled through more than 300 films as a bespectacled victim of life's difficulties, died of cancer Monday at his Beverly Hills home. Los Angeles Times March 9, 1971 June 8, 2008 July 2024 medicmedic 18 March – Jack Gore, Wales international rugby player, 71 9 April – Dewi Morgan, poet, scholar and journalist, 93s7-MORG-DEW-1877 Morgan, Dewi 'Dewi Teifi'; (1877-1971), poet and journalist Nerys Ann Jones yes 25 December 2019 19 April – Thomas Evan Nicholas (Niclas y Glais), writer and political activist, 91s8-NICH-EVA-1879 Nicholas, Thomas Evan ('Niclas y Glais'), (1879-1971), poet, minister of religion and advocate for the Communist Party D. Ben Rees yes 25 December 2019 18 May – William Mainwaring MP, miners' leaders8-NICH-EVA-1879 Mainwaring, William Henry (1884-1971), Labour politician John Graham Jones yes 25 December 2019 20 May – Waldo Williams, poet, 66James Nicholas Waldo Williams https://books.google.com/books?id=XVc8AAAAIAAJ 1975 University of Wales Press for the Welsh Arts Council 85 978-0-7083-0585-0 29 May – Howell Lewis, Wales international rugby player, 83 5 June – Clifford Dyment, poet, 57Ernest Kay The International authors and writers who's who https://books.google.com/books?id=W2RpAAAAIAAJ 1976 978-0-900332-34-0 167 International Biographical Centre 5 July – Idris Jones, chemist and rugby player, 71 11 July – Brenda Chamberlain, poet and artist, 59Kate Holman Brenda Chamberlain https://books.google.com/books?id=lUlaAAAAMAAJ 7 November 1997 University of Wales Press 11 978-0-7083-1048-9 4 September – C. E. Vulliamy, author, 85Meic Stephens The new companion to the literature of Wales https://books.google.com/books?id=WoMYAAAAIAAJ 23 September 1998 University of Wales Press 978-0-7083-1383-1 761 1 October – Bill Davies, cricketer, 65 9 November - Ceri Richards, artist, 68Oxford University Press Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators https://books.google.com/books?id=05C02RhJZCkC&pg=RA1-PA265 21 June 2012 OUP USA 978-0-19-992305-2 265 27 November - Leslie Thomas, politician, 65https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-leslie-thomas/index.html Mr Leslie Thomas UK Parliament 13 June 2024 1 December - Jack Jenkins, Wales international rugby player, 91 date unknown James Conway Davies, historian and palaeographer, 79Edward Weldon, The Society of American Archivists The American Archivist Volume 36.Number 4.October 1973 https://books.google.com/books?id=K3nYnmpuOGQC 1972 408 Jack Evans, footballer See also 1971 in Northern Ireland References Wales Wales Category:1971 in Europe Category:1970s in Wales