1933 in Wales
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1933 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Archbishop of Wales – Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Gwili
Events
- 1 March – A flag displaying the red Welsh Dragon flies officially alongside the Union Jack over Caernarfon Castle.
- 28 March - Rhondda East by-election: William Mainwaring retains the seat for Labour against Communist and Liberal opposition.
- 18 April - 28 people are injured at Cockett railway station when a locomotive travelling from to collides with the rear of the stationary 11.55 am to train.
- June/July – Seven men and four women receive custodial sentences after a riot at Bedwas over strikebreaking.
- 22 July – Amy Johnson and Jim Mollison take off from Pendine on the first non-stop aeroplane flight from Great Britain to the United States.
- Ronald Lockley establishes the first British bird observatory on Skokholm.
Arts and literature
- April–May – Dylan Thomas's poem And death shall have no dominion is written and published.
- June - The first Gregynog Music Festival, Wales' oldest extant classical music festival, is organised by the sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies at their home, Gregynog Hall in Tregynon, Montgomeryshire.
- Percy Cudlipp becomes editor of the Evening Standard – the youngest ever editor of a British national newspaper.
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Edgar Phillips
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Simon B. Jones
New books
English language
- D. J. Davies – The Economic History of South Wales
- A. H. Dodd – The Industrial Revolution in North Wales
- Caradoc Evans – Wasps
- Margiad Evans – The Wooden Doctor
- Lily Tobias - ''Eunice Fleet''
Welsh language
- John Bodvan Anwyl - Fy hanes i fy hunan
- Gwilym Owen – Rhyfeddodau'r Cread
- Isaac Morris – ''Proffwydi'r Wythfed Ganrif Cyn Crist''
Music
- Ieuan Rees-Davies – ''Transposition at the keyboard''
Film
- Ivor Novello stars in I Lived with You, Sleeping Car, and Autumn Crocus.
Broadcasting
- 28 May – The BBC begins broadcasting the Welsh Regional Programme to South Wales from the Washford transmitter
- 17 July – The BBC begins broadcasting the National Programme to South Wales from the Washford transmitter
- The first broadcast is made from the Urdd Eisteddfod.
Sport
- Rugby union, although collecting the 'wooden spoon' in the Home Nations Championship, Wales beat England at Twickenham for the very first time, after ten previous attempts.
Births
- 2 January – Keith Thomas, early modern historian and academic
- 7 February – Stuart Burrows, opera singer
- 21 March – Michael Heseltine, politician
- 3 April – Alan Watkins, political journalist
- 22 April – Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American scientist
- 14 May – Siân Phillips, actress
- 20 June
- *Dai Dower, British, European and Empire flyweight boxing champion
- *Dorothy Simpson, detective fiction writer
- 30 June – John Faull, Wales international and British Lions rugby player
- 17 August – Jack Hurrell, Wales international rugby union player
- 1 September – Bedwyr Lewis Jones, writer and scholar
- 12 September – Len Allchurch, footballer
- 24 September – Terry Davies, Wales rugby captain and British Lion
- 25 September – David Parry-Jones, rugby commentator
- 12 November – Jeffrey Thomas, politician
- 17 November – Alan Harrington, footballer
- 28 November – Noel Trigg, light heavyweight boxer
- 31 December – Glyn Davidge, Wales international and British Lions rugby player
Deaths
- 8 January – Sir John Ballinger, librarian, 72
- 14 January – Sir Robert Jones, orthopaedic surgeon, 75
- 18 January – John Thomas, chemist, 46
- 2 February – Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, politician, 76
- 15 February – Jere Blake, Wales international rugby player, 47/48
- 23 February – David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East, 65
- 4 April – Sir Marteine Lloyd, 2nd Baronet, 82
- 29 May – Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer, 84
- 16 July – John Tudor Walters, politician, 64/65
- 10 August – Alf Morgans, Prime Minister of Western Australia, 83
- 13 September – David Morgan, Wales international rugby player, 61
- 20 September – Alfred Cattell, Wales international rugby player, 76
- 17 October – Sid Bevan, Wales international rugby union player, 56
- 18 October – Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen, soldier and politician, 82
- 10 November – Herbert Lewis, politician, 74