1935 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1935 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Archbishop of Wales – Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Gwili
Events
- 6 April – Industrialist MP Henry Haydn Jones becomes the owner of Aberllefenni Quarry.
- 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 over the use of non-union labour.
- 14 November – In the UK general election:
- *Megan Lloyd George reverts from Independent Liberal to Liberal MP after a four-year estrangement from the party leadership.
- *Newly elected MPs include Arthur Jenkins at Pontypool.
- 3 December – Felinfoel Brewery in Llanelli becomes the first in the UK to sell beer in cans.
- date unknown
- *Ten people are jailed at Blaina and a further 32 at Merthyr Tydfil during a period of industrial unrest in South Wales.
- *Penallta Colliery takes the European record for amount of coal wound in a 24-hour period.
Arts and literature
- Arwel Hughes joins the BBC's music department in Cardiff.
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – E. Gwyndaf Evans
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Gwilym R. Jones
New books
English language
- Rhys Davies – Honey and Bread
- Walford Davies – The Pursuit of Music
- Geraint Goodwin – Call Back Yesterday
- Llewelyn Wyn Griffith – Spring of Youth
- Jack Jones – Black Parade
- Eiluned Lewis – December Apples
- Bertrand Russell – Religion and Science
- Howard Spring – ''Rachel Rosing''
Welsh language
- Thomas Parry – Baledi'r Ddeunawfed Ganrif
- Ifor Williams – ''Canu Llywarch Hen''
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 Fascist movement.
Broadcasting
- April – John Reith, head of the BBC, meets a deputation from the University of Wales and Welsh MPs, and agrees to Wales becoming a BBC region.
- November – The BBC opens a studio in Bangor.
- date unknown – The BBC Welsh Orchestra, originally founded in 1928, is re-established as a 20-piece ensemble.
Sport
- Rugby
- *28 September – Swansea is the first British club to defeat a touring New Zealand side and becomes the first team, club or international, to beat all three major touring Southern Hemisphere countries.
Births
- 13 January – Vincent Kane, broadcaster
- 4 February – Brian Davies, animal welfare activist
- 7 February – Cliff Jones, footballer
- 9 February – Paul Flynn, politician
- 27 March – Tom Parry Jones, inventor
- 29 March – Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone
- 8 April – Islwyn Jones, footballer
- 2 May – Richard Livsey, Baron Livsey of Talgarth, politician
- 25 May – John Ffowcs Williams, engineer
- 27 May – Mal Evans, Beatles' roadie, born in Liverpool
- 30 May – Brayley Reynolds, footballer
- 24 June – Garfield Davies, trade unionist and politician
- 26 July – George Evans, footballer
- 1 August – Brian Jenkins, footballer
- 5 August – Kingsley Jones, rugby player
- 5 October – Colin Hudson, footballer
- 23 October – Roger Roberts, Baron Roberts of Llandudno, politician
- November – Ivor Davies, painter and installation artist
- 30 November – Sally Roberts Jones, poet and publisher
- 21 December – Geoff Lewis, jockey
- 31 December – Edwin Regan, Roman Catholic bishop
Deaths
- 1 February – John Aeron Thomas, industrialist and politician, 84
- 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
- 14 March – Thomas Lloyd, Anglican Bishop of Maenan, 77
- 20 March – Ernest Edwin Williams, journalist, author and barrister, 68
- 23 March – John Gwynoro Davies, minister and author, 80
- 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
- 1 July – Bill Evans, rugby player, 78
- 19 July – Tom Jones, cricketer, 34
- 12 August – Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones, journalist and secretary to Lloyd George, 29
- 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
- 27 November – Robert Mills-Roberts, footballer, 73
- 7 December – Griffith Evans, bacteriologist, 100
- 13 December – Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist, 90