1946 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1946 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

*Prince of Wales - "vacant"
*Princess of Wales - "vacant"
*Archbishop of Wales - David Lewis Prosser
*Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales - Crwys

Events

*The highest ever November temperature for the UK is recorded at Prestatyn: 71°F (21.7°C)
*Arthur Horner becomes President of the National Union of Mineworkers.
*A pneumoconiosis research unit is established at Llandough Hospital near Cardiff, in recognition of the damage being caused to miners' health.
*The Coal Industry Nationalisation Act is passed.

Arts and literature

*In the absence of a Prince of Wales, Princess Elizabeth, heir to the throne, is admitted to the Gorsedd.

Awards

*National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Mountain Ash)

*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Geraint Bowen
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Rhydwen Williams
*National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Dafydd Jenkins

New books

*Pennar Davies - "Cinio'r Cythraul"
*Caradoc Evans - "The Earth Gives All and Takes All"
*Thomas Rowland Hughes – "Chwalfa"
*Emyr Humphreys - "Little Kingdom"
*Albert Evans-Jones (Cynan) - "Ffarwel Weledig"
*John Gwilym Jones - "Y Goeden Erin"
*Dylan Thomas - "Deaths and Entrances"
*Gwyn Thomas - "The Dark Philosophers"

Music

*Daniel Jones – "Scenes from the Mabinogion"

Film

*"London Town" featuring Tessie O'Shea

Broadcasting

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port

*Boxing - Wales stages its first-ever world title fight, in which lightweight Ronnie James is defeated by Ike Williams.

Births

*15 January - Roger Davis, cricketer
*31 January - Bobby Windsor, rugby player
*21 March - Timothy Dalton, actor
*2 April - Dai Llewellyn, socialite
*19 May - Androw Bennett, writer
*14 June - Glyn Berry, diplomat
*6 August - Ron Davies, politician
*18 October - Dafydd Elis-Thomas, politician
*26 November - Brian Hibbard, actor and singer
*27 November - Kim Howells, politician
*9 December- Mervyn Davies, rugby player
*"date unknown"
**Tony Curtis (Welsh poet)

Deaths

*25 April - Arthur Jenkins, MP for Pontypool
*14 March (near Stroud) - Reg Thomas, athlete
*25 May - Ernest Rhys ("Mr Everyman"), poet
*15 July - William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician
*5 November - Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, author and patron of the arts in Wales
*6 December - Charles Butt Stanton, politician
*"date unknown"
**Arthur Griffith-Boscawen, politician
**Morris Williams, publisher, husband and collaborator of Kate Roberts