1928 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1928 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

29 March – The Grwyne Fawr reservoir is completed in the Brecon Beacons by the Abertillery & District Water Board, 16 years after the start of construction.
12 June – The Welsh National War Memorial is unveiled in Cardiff by The Prince of Wales.
18 June – Amelia Earhart lands near Burry Port, becoming the first woman passenger on a Transatlantic flight.
December – Rapallo House, Llandudno, is handed over to the local council to be used as a museum, as a bequest from Francis Edouard Chardon.
unknown dates
*Dr John Williams establishes a hospital at Durtlang in the Lushai Hills of India.
The Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales is founded by Clough Williams-Ellis.
*The community of Benedictine monks leaves Caldey Island for Prinknash Abbey. They are replaced at Caldey by a Cistercian order in 1929.
*Douglas Cochrane, 12th Earl of Dundonald, buys Gwrych Castle for £78,000.
*The Cardiff Station Orchestra, predecessor of the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, is formed.
Brynmawr Experiment begins.

October – Eric Gill and members of his artistic community leave Capel-y-ffin for Speen, Buckinghamshire.
Sir William Llewellyn is the first Welshman to become President of the Royal Academy of Arts.

Badminton – The Welsh Badminton Union is formed.
Boxing – Welsh Bantamweight champion Tosh Powell dies after a fight with Billy Housego in Liverpool.
Football – The 1928 Welsh Cup Final is contested by Bangor and Cardiff City at Farrar Road Stadium, Bangor, and ends in a 2–0 victory for Cardiff.
Yachting – The North Wales Cruising Club is formed.

11 January – Joseph Bailey, 2nd Baron Glanusk, 63
21 March – Stanley L. Wood, illustrator, 61
14 April – Lewis Cobden Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 62
13 May – David John Thomas, composer and conductor, 47
19 May – Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, heraldry expert, 57
23 May – Henry Seymour Berry, 1st Baron Buckland, industrialist, 50
3 June – Tosh Powell, Welsh champion boxer, 20
21 June – Marie Novello, pianist, c. 30
23 July – John Hinds, businessman and politician, 65
23 August – Daniel Davies, Bishop of Bangor, 64
30 August – Hugh Evan-Thomas, admiral, 65
6 September – Richard Ellis, librarian, 62
1 October – Lawrence Hugh Jenkins, judge, 70
3 December – Isaac Hughes (Craigfryn), poet and novelist, 76
13 December – Harry Jarman, Wales and British Lions international rugby union player, 34–35
29 December – George Boots, rugby player, 54
date unknown – John Morgan Howell, local politician in Cardiganshire, 72/3