1973 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1973 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

10 February - A special conference of the Trades Union Congress is held at Llandrindod Wells as part of the campaign to establish a Wales TUC.
April - Elections take place to the new county councils of Wales
April – The first Welsh-language papur bro community newspaper, Y Dinesydd, is founded.
10 May – Elections take place to the new Wales district councils, with big gains for the Labour Party in South Wales.
May – Sony opens its factory in Bridgend, the first major Japanese investment in Wales.
15 May – The Llyn Brianne dam is officially opened by Princess Alexandra.
17 July – Sixteen-year-old Sandra Newton is found murdered at Tonmawr.
16 September – Sixteen-year-olds Geraldine Hughes and Pauline Floyd are found murdered at Llandarcy. Their murders, along with that of Sandra Newton in July, will remain unsolved for 29 years.
23 October – Professor Brian Josephson wins the Nobel Prize for Physics.
During the year, there are 424 road deaths in Wales – an all-time record.
Drilling for oil and gas begins off the coast of Wales. A fourth oil refinery opens at Milford Haven.

23 November - Max Boyce records his legendary Live at Treorchy show at Treorchy Rugby Club.
Karl Jenkins' first album with Soft Machine, Six, wins the Melody Maker British Jazz Album of the Year award. Jenkins also wins the miscellaneous musical instrument award.
Grace Williams – Ave Maris Stella and ''Fairest of Stars''

The Labour Party publishes a study arguing that independent television arrangements in the UK are causing non Welsh-speaking residents to lose their Welsh identity.

Youth music programme Disc a Dawn ends its six-year run, to be replaced the following year by Gwerin 74, a folk music show.
Strim, Stram Strellach with Marged Esli.

Fish
Hang out your Brightest Colours, controversial documentary by Kenneth Griffith
Philip Madoc makes a memorable appearance as a U-boat captain in Dad's Army.

8 January – Sir David Hughes Parry, professor of law and university administrator, 80
11 January – Vernon Morris, cricketer, 78
30 January – Trystan Edwards, architectural critic, town planner and amateur cartographer, 88
12 March – Willie Llewellyn, Wales international rugby player, 94
19 March – Sir Clement Price Thomas, surgeon, 79
23 May – Kenneth Allott, poet and critic
29 July – Guy Morgan, rugby player, 65
9 August – Donald Peers, singer, 66
11 August
*Johnnie Clay, Test cricketer, 75
*Gil Morgan, rugby league player, 65
17 August – Elena Puw Morgan, novelist, 73
21 September – C. H. Dodd, theologian, 89
8 October – Evan Tom Davies, mathematician, 69
3 November – Melville Richards, academic, 63
4 November – Billy Williams, dual-code international rugby player, 67
16 November – Dai Hiddlestone, Wales international rugby player, 83
24 November – Brigadier Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes, soldier and medical administrator, 81
28 November – Anne Griffith-Jones, educationist, 83
date unknown - Morris Meredith Williams, painter and illustrator