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.
• The Welsh National Opera is founded.

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

Sport

• 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
• 20 February - Mike Roberts, Wales and British Lion rugby player
• 21 March - Timothy Dalton, actor
• 2 April - Dai Llewellyn, socialite
• 13 April - Della Jones, mezzo-soprano
• 19 May - Androw Bennett, writer
• 14 June - Glyn Berry, diplomat
• 6 August - Ron Davies, politician
• 3 October - Richie Morgan, professional footballer and manager
• 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, 39
• 25 May - Ernest Rhys ("Mr Everyman"), writer, 86
• 1 June - Arthur Griffith-Boscawen, politician, 80
• 15 July - William Cope, 1st Baron Cope, politician, 75
• 12 August - Alfred Mathews, vicar and Wales international rugby player, 82
• 4 November - Bill Morris, Wales international rugby player, 77
• 5 November - Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, author and patron of the arts in Wales, 66
• 24 November - Sydney Nicholls, Wales rugby international player, 78
• 6 December - Charles Butt Stanton MP, politician, 73
• date unknown - Morris Williams, publisher, husband and collaborator of Kate Roberts