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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1935 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - Edward
- Princess of Wales – vacant
- Archbishop of Wales – Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Gwili
Events
- 23 April - Morriston Orpheus Choir is founded by Ivor E. Sims.
- 17 June - The first detection of an aircraft by ground-based radar, is achieved by a team including Edward George Bowen.
- October - At Nine Mile Point Colliery in Cwmfelinfach , 164 miners take part in a "stay-down" strike action lasting 177 hours.
- 14 November - In the UK general election:
- Megan Lloyd George reverts from Independent Liberal to Liberal MP after a 4-year estrangement from the party leadership.
- Newly elected MPs include Arthur Jenkins at Pontypool.
- Ten people are jailed at Blaina and a further 32 at Merthyr Tydfil during a period of industrial unrest in South Wales.
- Felinfoel Brewery in Llanelli becomes the first in Europe to sell beer in cans.
- Industrialist MP Henry Haydn Jones is knighted and becomes the owner of Aberllefenni Quarry.
Arts and literature
- Arwel Hughes joins the BBC's music department in Cardiff.
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Caernarfon)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - E. Gwyndaf Evans
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Gwilym R. Jones
New books
- Rhys Davies - Honey and Bread
- Walford Davies - The Pursuit of Music
- Geraint Goodwin - Call Back Yesterday
- Llewelyn Wyn Griffith - Spring of Youth[1]
- Jack Jones - Black Parade
- Bertrand Russell - Religion and Science
- Howard Spring - Rachel Rosing
New drama
- James Kitchener Davies - Cwm Glo
- Emlyn Williams - Night Must Fall
- Stephen J. Williams - Y dyn hysbys: comedi mewn tair act
Music
- John Glyn Davies - Cerddi Robin Goch
- Ivor Novello - Glamorous Night
Film
- Y Chwarelwr, the first Welsh language film
- Pink Shirts, an amateur film made by the Marquess of Anglesey and his family and written by Peter Fleming, satirizing the British Fascists movement.
Broadcasting
Sport
- Rugby - Swansea is the first British club to defeat a touring New Zealand side and become the first team, club or international, to beat all three major touring Southern Hemisphere countries.
Births
- 13 January - Vincent Kane, broadcaster
- 7 February - Cliff Jones, footballer
- 9 February - Paul Flynn, politician
- 27 March - Tom Parry Jones, inventor (died 2013)
- 29 March - Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone (died 2001)
- 2 May - Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth, politician
- 25 May - John Ffowcs Williams, engineer
- 27 May - Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie (died 1976)
- 30 May - Brayley Reynolds, footballer
- 24 June - Garfield Davies, Baron Davies of Coity, politician
- 26 July - George Evans, footballer (died 2000
- 5 August - Kingsley Jones, rugby player (died 2003)
- 23 October - Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno, politician
- 30 November - Sally Roberts Jones, poet and publisher
- 21 December - Geoff Lewis, jockey
- 31 December - Edwin Regan, Roman Catholic bishop
Deaths
- 15 February - Tom Reason, cricketer, 44
- March - William Frost, inventor, 86
- 3 March - Caradog Roberts, composer, 46
- 13 March - Francis Vaughan, Roman Catholic bishop, 57 (post-operative complications)
- 20 March - Ernest Edwin Williams, journalist, author and barrister, 68
- 24 March - Maurice Parry, footballer, 57
- 9 May - John Goulstone Lewis, Wales international rugby union player, 75
- 18 May - T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia", 46 (motorcycle accident)[2]
- 26 July - Albert Bethel, politician, 61
- 12 August - Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones, journalist and secretary to Lloyd George, 29 (murdered)[3]
- 21 August - Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician, 94
- 20 September - Teddy Peers, footballer, 48
- 10 October - Samuel Evans, educationist
- 31 October - Noah Ablett, politician, 52 (alcohol-related)[4]
- 13 December - Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist, 90
References
- ↑ National Library of Wales Dr Llewelyn Wyn Griffith Papers]. Accessed 16 November 2014
- ↑ "T.E. Lawrence, To Arabia and back". BBC. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
- ↑ "Journalist Gareth Jones' 1935 murder examined by BBC Four". BBC News. 2012-07-05. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
- ↑ The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) pg11 ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6
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