1975 in Wales

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See also:	List of years in Wales 1975 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1975 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Charles
• Princess of Wales – vacant
• Secretary of State for Wales – John Morris
• Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
  • Brinli (outgoing)
  • R. Bryn Williams (incoming)

Events

• 20 March - Opening of the Cleddau Bridge at Milford Haven.
• 14 April - Actor/singer Michael Flanders dies suddenly of an intracranial berry aneurysm while on holiday in Betws-y-Coed.
• May - A leak from the Esso Tenby tanker off the coast of Pembrokeshire kills an estimated 1,300 seabirds.
• 28 July - 8 people are injured when a train derails between Sarnau and St Clears.
• 19 November - The Wales national football team qualifies for the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 1976, beating Austria 1-0 in Wrexham.
• date unknown - The Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust is established.

Arts and literature

• Ryan and Ronnie announce the end of their comedy partnership.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Criccieth)
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Gerallt Lloyd Owen
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Elwyn Roberts
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld

New books

English language

• Gwynfor Evans - National Future for Wales
• Jeremy Hooker - Soliloquies of a Chalk Giant
• Emyr Humphries - Flesh and Blood
• Richard Llewellyn - Green, Green, My Valley Now
• Moelwyn Merchant - Breaking the Code
• Prys Morgan - Iolo Morganwg
• Leslie Norris - Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies
• Bernice Rubens - I Sent a Letter to My Love
• Peter Tinniswood - Except You're a Bird
• Rhydwen Williams - The Angry Vineyard

Welsh language

• Aneirin Talfan Davies - Diannerch Erchwyn a Cherddi Eraill
• J. Eirian Davies - Cân Galed
• T. Glynne Davies - Marged
• Richard Cyril Hughes - Catrin o Ferain
• John G. Williams - Maes Mihangel

New drama

• W. S. Jones - Y Toblarôn

Music

• Max Boyce - We All Had Doctors' Papers
• Edward H. Dafis - Ffordd Newydd Eingl-Americanaidd Grêt o Fyw
• Dave Edmunds - Subtle As A Flying Mallet (album)
• Andy Fairweather-Low - "Wide Eyed And Legless" (top ten hit single)

Film

• Rachel Roberts appears in Picnic at Hanging Rock.
• Ken Loach's Days of Hope is partly set in Wales.

Welsh-language films

• None

Broadcasting

Welsh-language television

• The Siberry Report recommends a new Welsh-language fourth channel broadcasting 25 hours a week of Welsh-language programs, with BBC and HTV each responsible for 50% of the output.

English-language television

• Grand Slam, starring Hugh Griffith and Windsor Davies
• How Green Was My Valley adapted for television by Elaine Morgan, starring Stanley Baker, Sian Phillips, Mike Gwilym, Nerys Hughes and Gareth Thomas.
• Angharad Rees stars in Poldark.

Sport

• Boxing - Pat Thomas wins the British Welterweight title.
• Darts - Wales win the Home International Series.
• Football - The Wales national football team qualifies for the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 1976.
• Snooker - Ray Reardon is World Professional Champion for the fourth time.

Births

• 12 March - Richard Harrington, actor
• 21 March - Mark Williams, snooker player
• 5 April - John Hartson, footballer
• 22 May - Kelly Morgan, badminton player
• 18 June - Jem, singer
• 1 July - Hayley Tullett, athlete
• 24 July - Dafydd James, rugby player
• 4 September - Kai Owen, actor
• 26 September - Dai Thomas, footballer
• 19 October - Jamie Donaldson, golfer
• 28 October - Adrian Durston, rugby player
• 5 November - Lisa Scott-Lee, singer
• 25 November - Paul Mealor, composer
• date unknown - Euros Childs, songwriter

Deaths

• 14 February - Arthur Probert, politician, 67
• 23 February - Ossie Male, rugby player, 81
• 3 March - T. H. Parry-Williams, poet, 87
• 20 April - Stephen Halden Beattie, recipient of the Victoria Cross, 67
• 23 April - Pete Ham, musician, leader of the group Badfinger (suicide), 27
• 21 May - A. H. Dodd, historian
• 7 June - Jack Smith, footballer, 63
• 7 August - Jim Griffiths, politician, 84
• 27 August - Noel Morgan, cricketer, 69
• 4 September - Walley Barnes, footballer and broadcaster, 55
• 6 November - Norman Riches, cricketer
• date unknown
  • Robert Herring, poet and critic, 72
  • Alun Jones (Alun Cilie), poet
  • Huw Lloyd Edwards, dramatist