1998 in Wales

none 1998 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1998 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1998 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Secretary of State for Wales Ron Davies (until 27 October)David Pollard Neil Parpworth David Hughes Constitutional and Administrative Law: Text with Materials https://books.google.com/books?id=u3BqMbyWXeMC&pg=PA172 14 June 2007 OUP Oxford 978-0-19-928637-9 172 Alun Michael Archbishop of Wales – Alwyn Rice Jones, Bishop of St AsaphNorman Doe A New History of the Church in Wales: Governance and Ministry, Theology and Society https://books.google.com/books?id=xlTMDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA113 29 February 2020 Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-49957-6 113 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Dafydd Rowlands Events 24 February – The Criminal Cases Review Commission overturns the murder charge of Mahmood Hussein Mattan, who was executed in 1952 for killing a Cardiff shopkeeper.Roda P. Roberts The Critical Link 2: Interpreters in the Community : Selected Papers from the Second International Conference on Interpreting in Legal, Health, and Social Service Setting https://books.google.com/books?id=mVupHf2NsMEC&pg=PA246 2000 John Benjamins Publishing 90-272-1636-3 246 February – Britain's first official register of historic landscapes is published by Cadw. It lists 36 landscapes in Wales of outstanding historic interest. 6 March – Flintshire Bridge is officially opened.http://www.deeside.com/happy-birthday-flintshire-bridge-officially-opened-march-6th-1998-2/ Happy Birthday Flintshire Bridge – It was officially opened on March 6th 1998 6 March 2018 deeside.com 4 February 2020 8–9 April – Torrential rain over eastern Wales results in widespread flooding. 13 April – Montgomeryshire MP Lembit Öpik is seriously injured in a paragliding accident in his constituency.D. Higgit The day my life changed http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/features/tm_objectid=15903539&method=full&siteid=50082&headline=the-day-my-life-changed-----name_page.html Western Standard 27 August 2005 2007-10-26 https://web.archive.org/web/20080118222256/http://icwales.icnetwork.co.uk/news/feature-news/tm_objectid%3D15903539%26method%3Dfull%26siteid%3D50082%26headline%3Dthe-day-my-life-changed-----name_page.html 18 January 2008 dead May – Cistercian Way long-distance trail originates. June – The Arts Council of Wales publishes its consultation paper Building A Creative Society. 31 July – The Government of Wales Act 1998, that will establish a devolved Welsh Assembly, receives its Royal Assent.Robert Hazell The State and the Nations: The First Year of Devolution in the United Kingdom https://books.google.com/books?id=VLAYTew3v0oC&pg=PA2 2000 Imprint Academic 978-0-907845-80-5 2 August – Ron Davies is appointed to the highest order of the Gorsedd of the Bards at the 1998 National Eisteddfod in Bridgend. 19 September – Ron Davies is elected in preference to Rhodri Morgan as Labour's candidate for First Secretary of the Assembly.Colin Pilkington Devolution in Britain Today https://books.google.com/books?id=x7TqLhr51v0C&pg=PA133 2002 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-6076-2 133 22–31 October – Heavy rainfall across Wales results in river levels rising to warning levels. Flood plains are inundated and there is extensive flooding of houses and other property. 27 October – Ron Davies resigns as Secretary of State for Wales after being mugged in an incident on Clapham Common, following what he described as an "error of judgment". 18 November – Jon Owen Jones, MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales, announces that the Environment Agency has been asked for a report on the October floods. November – Maenofferen slate quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog ceases production. Arts and literature Bryn Terfel gives a recital at Carnegie Hall. Awards Glyndŵr Award – Iwan Bala National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Bridgend) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – withheldhttps://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair Winners of the Chair National Eisteddfod of Wales 3 February 2020 4 February 2020 13 February 2021 https://web.archive.org/web/20210213204407/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Emyr Lewis, "Rhyddid"https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners Winners of the Crown National Eisteddfod of Wales 3 February 2020 4 February 2020 7 November 2019 https://web.archive.org/web/20191107194429/https://eisteddfod.wales/archive/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners dead National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Eurig Wyn, Blodyn Tatws Wales Book of the Year: English language: Mike Jenkins – Wanting to Belong Welsh language: Iwan Llwyd – Dan Ddylanwad Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen – Geraint V. Jones, Semtecs New books English language Gillian Clarke – Five Fields James Hawes – Rancid AluminiumDavid Armstrong How Not to Write a Novel: Confessions of a Midlist Author https://books.google.com/books?id=3BmKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT101 4 November 2011 Allison & Busby 978-0-7490-1135-2 101 Rhys Hughes – Rawhead & Bloody Bones Mario Risoli – When Pele Broke our Hearts: Wales and the 1958 World Cup Sarah Waters – Tipping the Velvet Welsh language Dafydd Huws – Dyddiadur Dyn Dŵad Huw Ethall – Pennar Davies: Y Dyn a'i Waith Film Anthony Hopkins and Catherine Zeta-Jones star in The Mask of Zorro. Welsh language films Bride of War, starring Huw Garmon (in Welsh, English, French, German and Polish). Music Indie music band Terris are formed in Newport. Anweledig – Sombreros yn y Glaw Charlotte Church – Voice of an Angel Melys – Rumours and Curses Bonnie Tyler – All in One Voice Broadcasting Welsh-language television November – A new digital channel is launched, broadcasting in Welsh for twelve hours a day.Janet Davies The Welsh Language: A History https://books.google.com/books?id=32WuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT125 15 January 2014 University of Wales Press 978-1-78316-129-4 125 English-language television Barry Welsh Is Coming wins the BAFTA Wales Light Entertainment award.https://www.bafta.org/awards/cymru/light-entertainment-cymru/ BAFTA Cymru Light Entertainment 25 August 2026 Sport BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Iwan ThomasBBC Wales Sport Personality winners BBC Sport https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/20670643 2 August 2021 Commonwealth Games – September Kelly Morgan wins the badminton women's singles; Iwan Thomas wins the men's 400 metres; Desmond Davies wins the men's individual skeet shooting; Wales win a total of 15 medals, including the three golds. Snooker 8 February – Mark Williams wins his first Masters title.https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/snooker-williams-wins-on-respotted-black-1143772.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/snooker-williams-wins-on-respotted-black-1143772.html 2022-05-01 subscription live Snooker: Williams wins on respotted black 9 February 1998 The Independent 14 May 2019 Births 12 March – Will Jones, rugby player 5 June – Dafydd Jones, footballer 18 December – Cameron Coxe, footballer 25 December – Will Griffiths, rugby player 29 December – Mark Harris, footballer Deaths 3 January – Tony Duncan, golfer and cricketer, 83 18 February – Robbie James, footballer, 40 (collapsed and died during match)Obituary: Robbie James https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-robbie-james-1146080.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-robbie-james-1146080.html 2022-05-01 subscription live The Independent 25 November 2010 Ivan Ponting 21 February 1998 1 April – Mary Wynne Warner, mathematician, 65I. M. James and A. R. Pears, "Obituary: Mary Wynne Warner (1932–1998)" Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 34(6)(December 2001): 745–752. DOI: 10.1112/S0024609302001467 2 April – Dai Davies, trade unionist, 88 4 April – Käte Bosse-Griffiths, author, 87Obituary: Kate Bosse-Griffiths https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-kate-bosse-griffiths-1155460.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-kate-bosse-griffiths-1155460.html 2022-05-01 subscription live The Independent 10 April 1998 Meic Stephens Meic Stephens 4 October 2019 14 April – Dorothy Squires, singer, 83Bill Christine They Left Their Hearts in San Francisco: The Lives of Songwriters George Cory and Douglass Cross https://books.google.com/books?id=i5lBDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA183 25 October 2017 McFarland 978-1-4766-6900-7 183 11 May – Vronwy Hankey (née Fisher), archaeologist, 81Peter Warren Peter Warren (archaeologist) The Independent 23 June 1998 https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-vronwy-hankey-1166868.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/obituary-vronwy-hankey-1166868.html 2022-05-01 subscription Vronwy Hankey 13 May – Arthur Rees, Wales international rugby player and police Chief Constable, 85https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-arthur-rees-1157859.html https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-arthur-rees-1157859.html 2022-05-01 subscription Obituary: Arthur Rees The Independent Cole, Robert 21 May 1998 1 June 2011 17 May – Hugh Cudlipp, journalist, 84Dennis Griffiths Fleet Street: Five Hundred Years of the Press https://books.google.com/books?id=1BsXAQAAIAAJ 2006 British Library 978-0-7123-0697-3 389 5 July – James Eirian Davies, minister and poet, 80https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/deorllewin/papurau_bro/y_lloffwr/newyddion/mai04.shtml Cofio Cawr – J. Eirian Davies BBC De Orllewin May 2004 25 June 2017 cy 23 July – R. Tudur Jones, theologian and politician, 77https://biography.wales/article/s8-JONE-TUD-1921 Jones, Robert Tudur (1921–1998), theologian, church historian and public figure D. Densil Morgan Dictionary of Welsh Biography National Library of Wales 8 October 2019 28 July – Nancy Evans, table tennis player, 95 3 August (in Waipukurau, New Zealand) – Ronnie Boon, Wales rugby union player, 89 12 September – Horace Charles Jones, poet, 92 5 October – Megs Jenkins, actress, 81F. Maurice Speed James Cameron-Wilson Film Review https://books.google.com/books?id=iw8IAQAAMAAJ 1999 W. H. Allen 9781903111000 31 October – Eddie Perry, footballer, 89 16 December – Kenyon Jones, rugby player, 87 16 December – Tommy Davies, boxer, 78 31 December – Alan Morris, footballer, 44 See also 1998 in Northern Ireland References Wales Category:1998 in Europe Category:1990s in Wales