1982 in Wales

none 1982 This article is about the particular significance of the year 1982 to Wales and its people. Incumbents United Kingdom incumbents 1982 in the United Kingdom#Incumbents Secretary of State for Wales – Nicholas Edwardshttps://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/mar/19/lord-crickhowell-obituary Lord Crickhowell obituary 19 March 2018 The Guardian Stephen Bates 19 March 2020 Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor (retired)Gerald Parsons The Growth of Religious Diversity - Vol 2: Britain From 1945 Volume 2: Controversies https://books.google.com/books?id=MbSLmy-a23sC&pg=PA106 20 June 2013 Routledge 978-1-136-13628-3 106 Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Jâms Nicholasen http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/james-nicholas-poet-teacher-and-archdruid-of-wales-8887488.html James Nicholas: Poet, teacher and Archdruid of Wales The Independent Stephens, Meic 17 October 2013 21 October 2013 Events 2 January – The Welsh Army of Workers claims responsibility for a bomb explosion at the Birmingham headquarters of Severn Trent Water.https://www.expressandstar.com/days/1976-2000/1982.html Those were the days Express & Star Wolverhampton 4 April 2011 23 February – Wales was declared a Nuclear Free Zone as Clwyd County Council became the last of eight Welsh local authorities to pass a resolution to that effect. https://wrexham.com/news/exhibition-to-mark-40-years-since-the-nuclear-free-wales-declaration-visits-wrexham-217168.html Exhibition to mark 40 years since the Nuclear Free Wales Declaration Visits Wrexham Wrexham.com 29 March 2022 May – Swansea City complete their first season in the English Football League First Division with a sixth-place finish.http://www.swanseacity.net/club/history.aspx Swansea City AFC History 2013-02-27 https://web.archive.org/web/20151114122803/http://www.swanseacity.net/club/history.aspx 2015-11-14 dead 2 June – 100,000 people gather in Pontcanna Fields, Cardiff, to welcome Pope John Paul II on the first-ever papal visit to Wales. 8 June – 32 men from the Welsh Guards are killed when the Sir Galahad burns during the Falklands War.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-17474296 Disaster for British at Bluff Cove BBC News 23 March 2012 The most famous of the survivors is Simon Weston, who is severely burned. 16 June – Welsh miners go on strike to support health workers demanding a 12% pay rise.https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/16/newsid_2514000/2514195.stm 1982: Welsh miners back health workers 30 November 2007 On This Day BBC News 16 June 2008 30 August – St David's Hall opens in Cardiff. 11 September – 14 skydivers from Wales die when a Chinook helicopter crashes at an airshow in Mannheim in Germany.https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-19548290 Swansea skydivers remembered 30 years after Mannheim crash Sarah Moore 11 September 2012 BBC News 16 September – At the Gower by-election brought about by the death of Ifor Davies, Gareth Wardell holds the seat for Labour. 17 October – First issue of Sulyn, the first Sunday newspaper in the Welsh language.David Hutchison Hugh O’Donnell Centres and Peripheries: Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Journalism in the Twenty-First Century https://books.google.com/books?id=ApknBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA48 18 January 2011 Cambridge Scholars Publishing 978-1-4438-2757-7 48 26 November – A plaque is unveiled by the Prince of Wales at the monument erected in memory of those who died in the Gresford Disaster of 1934.Stanley Williamson Gresford: The Anatomy of a Disaster https://books.google.com/books?id=bY0gcfFVOgYC&pg=PA212 1999 Liverpool University Press 978-0-85323-892-8 212 date unknown The Inmos microprocessor factory in Newport, Wales, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, is completed. Swansea is given the right to have a Lord Mayor. Councillor Paul Valerio becomes the first incumbent.https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/key-convention-members-2826024 Key convention members 15 July 2008 North Wales Daily Post 16 March 2019 First students begin courses at the Welsh language study centre at Nant Gwrtheyrn. Arts and literature Roger Rees wins a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. Alice Thomas Ellis is shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The 27th Kingdom. Awards National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Swansea) National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Gerallt Lloyd Owen National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Eirwyn George National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Gwilym M. Jones New books Gwynfor Evans - Bywyd Cymro Alun Jones - Pan Ddaw'r Machlud R. Merfyn Jones - The North Wales Quarrymen 1874-1922 Rhiannon Davies Jones - Eryr Pengwern Kenneth O. Morgan - Rebirth of a Nation: Wales 1880-1980 Wynford Vaughan-Thomas - Princes of Wales Music John Cale - Music For A New Society (album) Dafydd Iwan with Ar Log - Rhwng Hwyl a Thaith Film Political Annie’s Off Again, film of a local industrial dispute made by Chapter Video Workshop. Broadcasting Welsh-language television Cefn Gwlad Joni Jones Noson Lawen appears for the first time. S4C starts broadcasting on 1 November English-language television The Citadel (BBC), filmed in Tredegar. Sport BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Steve BarryBBC Wales Sport Personality winners https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/20670643 BBC Sport 2 August 2021 Boxing 14 September – Kelvin Smart becomes British flyweight champion after beating fellow Welsh fighter Dave George. Darts – Ann-Marie Davies wins the Women's World Masters Championship. Snooker 13 January – Terry Griffiths wins the Lada Classic. 4 December – Terry Griffiths wins the UK Snooker Championship,https://www.eurosport.com/snooker/profile-terry-griffiths_sto2207915/story.shtml Profile: Terry Griffiths 3 February 2010 Eurosport 16 May 2019 to complete his career Triple Crown (snooker). Terry Parsons wins the World Amateur Championship. Births 9 January – Catherine Middleton, future Princess of Wales (in England) 14 January – Joe Dunthorne, novelist and poet 1 February – Gavin Henson, rugby player 4 February – Kevin Gall, footballer 2 May – Timothy Benjamin, athlete 12 May – David Thaxton, actor and singer 20 May – Owain Rhys Davies, actor (died 2026) 21 June – Prince William, first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (in London) 29 August – Mike Phillips, rugby player 2 September – Matthew Rees, footballer 29 November – Imogen Thomas, model 25 December – Rob Edwards, footballer Deaths 5 January – Jeanetta Thomas, UK's oldest person and oldest Welsh-born woman of all time, 112Oldest woman dies aged 112 1 The Guardian London 7 January 1982 11 January – Ronald Lewis, actor, 53'Ruined' actor found dead The Journal 12 January 1982 1 en 5 February – Ronald Welch, historical novelist, 72Pamela Dear Contemporary authors: New revision series https://books.google.com/books?id=UFKJnEi0sFQC 1 January 2000 Gale / Cengage Learning 978-0-7876-3095-9 47 8 February – Cedric Morris, artist, 9210.1093/ref:odnb/37786 Morris, Sir Cedric Lockwood, ninth baronet 6 May – Jennie Eirian Davies, politician and magazine editorMeic Stephens The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales https://archive.org/details/oxfordcompaniont00meic registration April 1986 Oxford University Press 27 19 May – Elwyn Jones, television writer, 58 31 May – Eryl Davies, educationist, 59 6 June – Ifor Davies, politician, 71s6-DAVI-IFO-1910 Davies, Ivor (1910-1982), Labour politician John Graham Jones 31 July 2008 2 June 2022 10 July Gwilym Jenkins (in Lancaster), statistician and systems engineer, 49 Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen, philosopher, 60 17 July – Bob John, footballer, 83 16 August – Sydney Hinam, Wales international rugby player, 83 18 October – Idwal Jones, politician, 82s6-JONE-IDW-1900 Jones, James Idwal (1900-1982), headteacher and Labour politician 30 July 2008 John Graham Jones 2 June 2022 19 October – Iorwerth Peate, social anthropologist and poet, founder of St Fagans National Museum of History, 81Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru https://books.google.com/books?id=OItnAAAAMAAJ 1982 University of Wales Press 549 4 November – Talfryn Thomas, character actor, 60 16 November – Ivor Jones, rugby union international, 80 19 November – Herbie Evans, footballer, 88 4 December – Ivor Williams, portrait painter, 74 See also 1982 in Northern Ireland References Wales Category:1980s in Wales Category:1982 by country Category:1982 in Europe