1949 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1949 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Easter - Urdd Gobaith Cymru holds its first "Celtic camp".
April - The government decides to establish an Advisory Council for Wales.
20 May - Council for Wales and Monmouthshire first meets, with Huw T. Edwards as its first chairman.
*June - Meteorologist David Brunt is knighted.
12 June - Britain's first all-world Muslim conference is held in Cardiff.
21 September
*The first comprehensive school in Wales is opened in Holyhead, Anglesey.
*A meteorite falls through the roof of the Prince Llewelyn Hotel, Beddgelert.
*John Morgan is enthroned as Archbishop of Wales.
4 November - Cwmbran is designated as the first New Town in Wales under powers of the New Towns Act 1946.
26 December - The Gwyn Nicholls memorial gates at Cardiff Arms Park are officially opened.
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*Closure of the granite quarry at Llanbedrog, the last in the town.
*Sale of Bron-y-garth, Porthmadog, ancestral home of Sir Lewis Casson.
*Bodnant Garden is donated to the National Trust.
*Gwynfor Evans is elected to Merionethshire County Council.
*Jack Jones spends three months in the USA promoting the Moral Re-Armament Movement.

Dannie Abse - After Every Green Thing
Stan Awbery - Labour's Early Struggles in Swansea
David James Davies - Towards an Economic Democracy
Cledwyn Hughes - A Wanderer in North Wales
Arthur Leach - Charles Norris of Tenby and Waterwynch
Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor - Newfoundland at the Cross Roads
Thomas Mardy-Jones - Character, Coal and Corn – the Roots of British Power
Bertrand Russell - Authority and the Individual
Gwyn Thomas - ''All Things Betray Thee''

Blue Scar, starring Kenneth Griffith and Rachel Thomas
The Last Days of Dolwyn, starring Emlyn Williams, Richard Burton and Hugh Griffith
Yr Etifeddiaeth , documentary by Geoff Charles and John Roberts Williams, depicting traditional ways of life in rural North Wales, with narration by Cynan; the first film to be made in the Welsh language
The Fruitful Year, a promotional film about Wales, commissioned by the Post Office National Savings
The Road to Yesterday, travelogue made for troops serving abroad

January - Glyn Griffiths writes: "It would be advisable now for Wales to weigh in with its campaign of aggravation and persuasion to get a Welsh Radio Corporation."

Football - John Charles joins Leeds United
Netball - The Welsh team plays its first international matches, against Scotland and England
Rugby Union
*26 March - France beats Wales 5–3 at the Stade Colombes in Paris
*26 December - Rhys Gabe officially opens the Gwyn Nicholls Memorial Gates at Cardiff Arms Park.
Steeplechasing - The first Welsh Grand National to be run at Chepstow Racecourse is won by Dick Francis riding Fighting Line.

20 January - Artie Moore, wireless operator
21 January
*J. H. Thomas, politician, 72
*Rowley Thomas, Wales international rugby player, 85
7 March - T. Gwynn Jones, poet and journalist, 77
20 April - Sir Evan Davies Jones, 1st Baronet, civil engineer and politician, 90
21 April - Sir Alfred Thomas Davies, civil servant, 88
27 April - Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar, poet and occulist, 55
1 May - Horace Lyne, Wales international rugby player and WRU president, 88
3 May - David John Tawe Jones, composer, 64
8 May - Abel J. Jones, teacher, writer and public servant
6 June - Walter E. Rees, Secretary of the Welsh Rugby Union, 86
3 July - William McCutcheon, Wales international rugby player, 78/79
23 July - John Bodvan Anwyl, lexicographer, 74
10 August - William Jones Williams, public servant, 86
26 August - Edgar Chappell, sociologist, 70
1 September - Dr Teddy Morgan, Welsh international rugby player, 69
24 October - T. Rowland Hughes, author, 46
9 November - William Dowell, Wales dual code rugby international, 64
16 December - George Maitland Lloyd Davies, pacifist politician, 59