1982 in Wales
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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1982 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Secretary of State for Wales – Nicholas Edwards[1]
- Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor (retired)[2]
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Jâms Nicholas[3]
Events
- 2 January – The Welsh Army of Workers claims responsibility for a bomb explosion at the Birmingham headquarters of Severn Trent Water.[4]
- May – Swansea City complete their first season in the English Football League First Division with a sixth-place finish.[5]
- 2 June – 100,000 people gather in Pontcanna Fields, Cardiff, to welcome Pope John Paul II on the first-ever papal visit to Wales.
- 8 June – 32 men from the Welsh Guards are killed when the Sir Galahad burns during the Falklands War.[6] The most famous of the survivors is Simon Weston, who is severely burned.
- 16 June – Welsh miners go on strike to support health workers demanding a 12% pay rise.[7]
- 30 August – St David's Hall opens in Cardiff.
- 11 September – 14 skydivers from Wales die when a Chinook helicopter crashes at an airshow in Mannheim in Germany.[8]
- 16 September – At the Gower by-election brought about by the death of Ifor Davies, Gareth Wardell holds the seat for Labour.
- 17 October – First issue of Sulyn, the first Sunday newspaper in the Welsh language.[9]
- 26 November – A plaque is unveiled by the Prince of Wales at the monument erected in memory of those who died in the Gresford Disaster of 1934.[10]
- date unknown
- The Inmos microprocessor factory in Newport, Wales, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, is completed.
- Swansea is given the right to have a Lord Mayor. Councillor Paul Valerio becomes the first incumbent.[11]
- First students begin courses at the Welsh language study centre at Nant Gwrtheyrn.
Arts and literature
- Roger Rees wins a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
- Alice Thomas Ellis is shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The 27th Kingdom.
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Swansea)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Gerallt Lloyd Owen
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Eirwyn George
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Gwilym M. Jones
New books
- Gwynfor Evans - Bywyd Cymro
- Alun Jones - Pan Ddaw'r Machlud
- R. Merfyn Jones - The North Wales Quarrymen 1874-1922
- Rhiannon Davies Jones - Eryr Pengwern
- Kenneth O. Morgan - Rebirth of a Nation: Wales 1880-1980
- Wynford Vaughan-Thomas - Princes of Wales
Music
- John Cale - Music For A New Society (album)
- Dafydd Iwan with Ar Log - Rhwng Hwyl a Thaith
Film
- Political Annie’s Off Again, film of a local industrial dispute made by Chapter Video Workshop.
Broadcasting
Welsh-language television
- Cefn Gwlad
- Joni Jones
- Noson Lawen appears for the first time.
- S4C starts broadcasting on 1 November
English-language television
- The Citadel (BBC), filmed in Tredegar.
Sport
- BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Steve Barry[12]
- Boxing
- 14 September – Kelvin Smart becomes British flyweight champion after beating fellow Welsh fighter Dave George.
- Darts – Ann-Marie Davies wins the Women's World Masters Championship.
- Snooker
- 13 January – Terry Griffiths wins the Lada Classic.
- 4 December – Terry Griffiths wins the UK Snooker Championship,[13] to complete his career Triple Crown (snooker).
- Terry Parsons wins the World Amateur Championship.
Births
- 9 January – Catherine Middleton, future Princess of Wales (in England)
- 1 February – Gavin Henson, rugby player
- 4 February – Kevin Gall, footballer
- 2 May – Timothy Benjamin, athlete
- 12 May – David Thaxton, actor and singer
- 21 June – Prince William, first child of the Prince and Princess of Wales (in London)
- 29 August – Mike Phillips, rugby player
- 2 September – Matthew Rees, footballer
- 29 November – Imogen Thomas, model
- 25 December – Rob Edwards, footballer
- date unknown – Amanda Hale, actress
Deaths
- 5 January – Jeanetta Thomas, UK's oldest person and oldest Welsh-born woman of all time, 112[14]
- 11 January – Ronald Lewis, actor, 53
- 5 February – Ronald Welch, historical novelist, 72[15]
- 8 February – Cedric Morris, artist, 92
- 6 May – Jennie Eirian Davies, politician and magazine editor[16]
- 19 May – Elwyn Jones, television writer, 58
- 31 May – Eryl Davies, educationist, 59
- 6 June – Ifor Davies, politician, 71[17]
- 10 July
- Gwilym Jenkins (in Lancaster), statistician and systems engineer, 49
- Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen, philosopher, 60
- 17 July – Bob John, footballer, 83
- 16 August – Sydney Hinam, Wales international rugby player, 83
- 18 October – Idwal Jones, politician, 82[18]
- 19 October – Iorwerth Peate, social anthropologist and poet, founder of St Fagans National Museum of History, 81[19]
- 4 November – Talfryn Thomas, character actor, 60
- 16 November – Ivor Jones, rugby union international, 80
- 19 November – Herbie Evans, footballer, 88
- 4 December – Ivor Williams, portrait painter, 74
See also
References
- ^ Stephen Bates (19 March 2018). "Lord Crickhowell obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
- ^ Gerald Parsons (20 June 2013). The Growth of Religious Diversity - Vol 2: Britain From 1945 Volume 2: Controversies. Routledge. p. 106. ISBN 978-1-136-13628-3.
- ^ Stephens, Meic (17 October 2013). "James Nicholas: Poet, teacher and Archdruid of Wales". The Independent. Retrieved 21 October 2013.
- ^ "Those were the days". Wolverhampton: Express & Star. Retrieved 4 April 2011.
- ^ "Swansea City AFC History". Archived from the original on 2015-11-14. Retrieved 2013-02-27.
- ^ "Disaster for British at Bluff Cove". BBC News. 23 March 2012.
- ^ "1982: Welsh miners back health workers". On This Day. BBC News. 16 June 2008. Retrieved 30 November 2007.
- ^ Moore, Sarah. "Swansea skydivers remembered 30 years after Mannheim crash". BBC News. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
- ^ David Hutchison; Hugh O’Donnell (18 January 2011). Centres and Peripheries: Metropolitan and Non-Metropolitan Journalism in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 48. ISBN 978-1-4438-2757-7.
- ^ Stanley Williamson (1999). Gresford: The Anatomy of a Disaster. Liverpool University Press. p. 212. ISBN 978-0-85323-892-8.
- ^ "Key convention members". North Wales Daily Post. 15 July 2008. Retrieved 16 March 2019.
- ^ "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners". BBC Sport. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
- ^ "Profile: Terry Griffiths". Eurosport. 3 February 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
- ^ "Oldest woman dies aged 112". The Guardian. London. 7 January 1982. p. 1.
- ^ Pamela Dear (1 January 2000). Contemporary authors: New revision series. Gale / Cengage Learning. p. 47. ISBN 978-0-7876-3095-9.
- ^ Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 27.
- ^ John Graham Jones (31 July 2008). "Davies, Ivor (1910-1982), Labour politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
- ^ John Graham Jones (30 July 2008). "Jones, James Idwal (1900-1982), headteacher and Labour politician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
- ^ Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru. University of Wales Press. 1982. p. 549.