1991 in Wales

Incumbents

• Secretary of State for Wales – David Hunt
• Archbishop of Wales
  • George Noakes, Bishop of St David's (retired)
  • Alwyn Rice Jones, Bishop of St Asaph
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Ap Llysor

Events

• 6 January - A Maltese tanker, the Kimya, capsizes off the Anglesey coast. Ten crew members are drowned, and the ship's cargo of sunflower oil causes marine pollution.
• January - Two Welsh soldiers are among those killed in the first Gulf War.
• 4 April - Peter Hain is elected as MP for Neath in a by-election caused by the death of the sitting MP, Donald Coleman.
• 16 May - Huw Edwards is elected as MP for Monmouth in a by-election caused by the death of the sitting MP, Sir John Stradling Thomas.
• 23 May - A memorial to Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd is dedicated at Kidwelly Castle.
• 19 July - Dean Saunders, 27-year-old Welsh international striker, becomes the most expensive player to be signed by a British club when a £2.9 million fee takes him from Derby County to Liverpool, who have broken the record fee in British football for the third time in four years.
• 31 August–3 September - Cardiff Ely Bread Riots: A dispute between two shopkeepers escalates into four consecutive nights of rioting in the Ely district of Cardiff.
• 16 October - Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs, who turns 18 at the end of the following month, becomes the youngest full international for the Welsh national team against Germany in Nuremberg.
• 21 October - Welshman Eric Jones is one of a team of four who make the first hot-air balloon flight over Mount Everest.
• 25 October - Official opening of Conwy Crossing (immersed tube tunnel) to road traffic as part of A55 Conwy Bypass.
• 8 November - Penallta Colliery closes.
• date unknown - The Welsh Office proposes an M4 relief road between Magor and Castleton.

Arts and literature

• August - Simultaneous translation facilities are made available for the first time at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
• 1 September - Cantorion Colin Jones is founded in Wrexham.
• The first Pacific Northwest Welsh Weekend is held at Seattle.
• Wyn Calvin becomes the first Welshman to be elected King Rat of the Order of Water Rats.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Mold, with record attendance of 164,100)
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Robin Llwyd ab Owain, "Merch Ein Amserau" (The Girl of Our Times)
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Einir Jones, "Pelydrau"
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Angharad Tomos, Si Hei Lwli
• Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen - withheld

New books

English language

• A Cardiff Anthology
• Phil Rickman - Candlenight

Welsh language

• Robat Arwyn & Robin Llwyd ab Owain - Gwin Beaujolais
• Pennar Davies - Gwas y Gwaredwr
• Glyn Tegai Hughes - Daniel Owen a Natur y Nofel
• Saunders Lewis - Williams Pantycelyn (new ed.)
• Prys Morgan - Brad y Llyfrau Gleision

Music

• Datblygu - Blwch Tymer Tymor
• Y Cyrff - Llawenydd Heb Ddiwedd (album)
• Bonnie Tyler - Bitterblue (album)

Film

Welsh-language films

• Elenya
• Un Nos Ola Leuad

Broadcasting

English-language television

• Joshua Jones (children's programme made by S4C)
• Catherine Zeta-Jones makes her first appearance in The Darling Buds of May.

Welsh-language television

• Gemau Heb Ffiniau

Sport

• BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Ian Woosnam
• Football
  • 5 June - Wales defeat Germany in the UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying tournament.
• Golf - Ian Woosnam wins the US Masters at Augusta, Georgia, becoming the first Welshman to win a major tournament.
• Rugby union - Neil Jenkins plays his first rugby match for Wales, at the age of 19.

Births

• 21 January - Craig Roberts, actor
• 28 January - Ffion Bowen, rugby union winger
• 3 February - Adrian Quaife-Hobbs, racing driver
• 4 February - Fred Evans, boxer
• 28 March - David Cornell, footballer
• 12 April - Ashley Jazz Richards, footballer
• 24 May - Aled Davies, paralympian field athlete (throwing events)
• 5 July - Michael White, snooker player
• 10 August - Amy Dowden, dancer
• 23 August - Laura O'Sullivan, footballer (goalkeeper)
• 3 October - Jenny McLoughlin, athlete
• 20 October - Nathaniel Jarvis, footballer
• 29 November - Becky James, track racing cyclist

Deaths

• 14 January - Donald Coleman, politician, 65
• 30 January - Rhys Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Kilgerran, politician, 83
• 10 February - Rowe Harding, rugby player, 89
• 19 February - Tom Rees, Wales international rugby player, 77
• 18 March - Robert Roland Hughes, neurologist, 79/80
• 24 March - Maudie Edwards, actress and singer, 84
• 29 March - John Stradling Thomas, politician, 65
• July - Evan Roberts, conservationist
• 12 August - Edward George Bowen, CBE, physicist, 80
• 23 August - Innes Lloyd, TV producer, 66
• 26 August - John Petts, artist, 77
• 31 August - Idwal Rees, Wales rugby union captain, 81
• October - Seymour Morris, footballer, 78
• 13 October - Donald Houston, actor, 67
• 5 November - Gwenlyn Parry, dramatist, 59
• 15 December - Ray Smith, actor, 55
• 22 December - Jim Lang, Wales rugby union player, 82

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