1924 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1924 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

22 January - Ramsay MacDonald, MP for Aberavon, becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the UK. J. H. Thomas becomes his Secretary of State for the Colonies and Vernon Hartshorn Postmaster General of the United Kingdom.
April - David Ivon Jones becomes the only Welshman ever to be given a state funeral in the Soviet Union.
26 May - Harry Grindell Matthews fails to convince the War Office of the efficacy of his new invention, the "death ray".
July - Harry Grindell Matthews reveals that he has lost the sight in one eye through the effects of his experiments.
23 October - Formal opening of new Guildhall, Swansea, designed by Percy Thomas in stripped classical style and incorporating the Brangwyn Hall.
29 October - In the 1924 United Kingdom general election:
*The Welsh electorate is 1,289,924
*Of 36 Welsh MPs, eight are elected unopposed.
*MacDonald loses his position as Prime Minister
*Only one female candidate stands for election in Wales.
*Newly elected MPs include Walter D'Arcy Hall, Henry Arthur Evans, Alfred Mond and Walter Runciman.
*Ernest Evans defeats George Maitland Lloyd Davies to win the University of Wales seat for the Liberals.
14 December - Earthquake centred on Corwen.
Ronald Lockley and Bertram Lloyd estimate that there are 25 to 30 pairs of "Welsh parrots" on Cardigan Island.
Freddie Welsh meets and spars with F. Scott Fitzgerald; the encounter would eventually give rise to a theory that Fitzgerald used Welsh as a model for The Great Gatsby.

August - Artist and designer Eric Gill moves with some of his artistic community from Ditchling in England to the disused Llanthony Abbey at Capel-y-ffin.
4 September - Goscombe John's Carmarthen County War Memorial is unveiled in Carmarthen.
A rare handled beaker is found during archaeological excavations at a Bronze Age burial cairn in the Black Mountains.

The Prince of Wales is filmed attending the National Eisteddfod in Pontypool by British Pathé
Cinematographer Claude Friese-Greene visits Cardiff, Chepstow and Raglan in the course of his drive from John O'Groats to Land's End
"Turn Out of the Cardiff Fire Brigade"

15 January - The world's first radio play, Danger by Richard Hughes, is broadcast by the British Broadcasting Company from its studios in London, incidentally including the first broadcast words of Welsh when "Ar Hyd y Nos" is sung.
May - The BBC broadcasts the first in a series of 18 Welsh-language lessons.
31 July - Broadcast of extracts from Y Pwyllgor, a play by D. T. Davies.
12 December - The first transmission is made from the 5SX radio relay station in Swansea. The studio is opened by the Mayor of Swansea.

Boxing - Johnny Jones wins the Welsh flyweight boxing championship by beating Gus Legge in Treorchy.
Football - 49-year-old Billy Meredith becomes the oldest man ever to play in an FA Cup semi-final.

1 January – John Morgan, Archdeacon of Bangor, 83
6 January – Henry Hill, cricketer, 78
19 January – Edwin Cross, footballer, 75
20 January – Aneurin Williams, politician, 64
19 March – John Richard Williams (J. R. Tryfanwy), poet, 56
2 June – William Griffith Thomas, influential clergyman, 63
14 June – George Frederick Harris, portrait and landscape painter, 67
5 July – William Pritchard Morgan, industrialist, 80
19 July – Jack Evans, Wales national rugby player, 53
6 August – John Roberts (Pencerdd Gwynedd), organist and composer, 76
20 September – Caradoc Rees, politician, 66
12 December – Charlie Arthur, Wales international rugby player
12 December – Mostyn Evan, Welsh-descended Australian lawyer and sports administrator, 83