2004 in Wales


This article is about the particular significance of the year 2004 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Welsh language

  • Hywel Teifi Edwards – O'r pentre gwyn i Gwmderi
  • Bethan Gwanas – Hi yw fy Ffrind
  • Eirug Wyn – '' Dyn yn y Cefn Heb Fwstash''

    English language

  • Peter Finch – Real Cardiff
  • Niall Griffiths – Stump
  • Mererid Hopwood – Singing in Chains: Listening to Welsh Verse
  • Rhys Hughes – A New Universal History of Infamy
  • Jon Ronson – ''The Men Who Stare at Goats''

    Music

  • Karl Jenkins – In These Stones Horizons Sing
  • Katell Keineg – July
  • Alun Tan Lan – Aderyn Papur
  • Lostprophets – Start Something
  • Manic Street Preachers – Lifeblood
  • Richard Rees – Y Baswr o Bennal
  • Tom Jones and Jools Holland
  • Tystion – ''Miwsig I'ch Traed A Miwsig I'ch Meddwl''

    Film

  • Ioan Gruffudd stars as Lancelot in King Arthur.
  • I'll Sleep When I'm Dead is filmed partly in Fishguard.
  • The Libertine is filmed partly at Tretower Court.

    Welsh-language films

  • Dal: Yma/Nawr, with John Cale, Ioan Gruffudd, Guto Harri, Cerys Matthews, Siân Phillips

    Broadcasting

  • 3 May – A new community radio station, WHAM! RADIO 1449, is launched in Blaenavon.
  • 16 July – The filming of a new Doctor Who series begins in Cardiff.
  • 28 July – S4C and the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society sign a deal guaranteeing nationwide TV coverage of the Royal Welsh Show for the next five years.
  • 17 October – Pobol y Cwm, the Welsh language soap opera, celebrates its thirtieth anniversary by receiving a "Hall of Fame" award from the Royal Television Society.
  • November – Bread of Heaven, a series of six programmes about the history of religion in Wales, presented by Huw Edwards, begins its run on BBC 1 Wales.
  • November–December – Mine All Mine, written by Russell T Davies and starring Griff Rhys Jones.
  • Rob Brydon stars in The Keith Barret Show.

    Welsh-language television

  • Alex Jones presents the first series of Hip neu Sgip?
  • ''Ralïo''

    Sport

  • 4 June – Simon Khan breaks the course record at the Celtic Manor Wales Open golf tournament.
  • 24 June – Joe Calzaghe pulls out of scheduled world title fight against Glen Johnson because of injury.
  • 30 August – The 19th World Bog Snorkelling Championships are held at Llanwrtyd Wells.
  • 15 September – Mark Hughes resigns as manager of the Welsh national team after being appointed manager of Blackburn Rovers.
  • 16 September – The Wales Rally GB begins in Cardiff.
  • 17 September – The 2004 Paralympics open in Athens: Welsh athletes will return home with twelve gold, six silver and nine bronze medals.
  • 9 October – The Wales national football team loses 2–0 to England at Old Trafford in Manchester.
  • 12 November – John Toshack becomes the new manager of the Wales national football team.
  • 20 November – The Wales rugby union side loses 25–26 to New Zealand at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff.
  • 3 December – Wrexham A.F.C. goes into administration.
  • BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Tanni Grey-Thompson

    Deaths

  • 3 January – T. G. Jones, footballer, 86
  • 5 January – Vivian Jenkins, rugby player, 92
  • 21 January – John T. Lewis, mathemategydd, 71
  • 22 January – Islwyn Ffowc Elis, author, 79
  • 5 February – Nicholas Evans, artist, 97
  • 21 February – John Charles, footballer, 72
  • 29 March – Eifion Jones, marine botanist, 79
  • 4 April – Alwyn Williams, geologist, 82
  • 5 April – Gweneth Lilly, writer and teacher, 83
  • 17 April – Geraint Howells, politician, 79
  • 25 April – Eirug Wyn, author, 53
  • May – Cyril Kieft, racing driver and sportscar manufacturer, 92
  • 20 May – Dennis Coslett, Free Wales Army activist, 64
  • 2 June – Alun Richards, novelist, 74
  • 9 June – Harry Harris, footballer, 70
  • 15 June
  • *J. Gwyn Griffiths, poet, Egyptologist and nationalist political activist, 92
  • *John Lasarus Williams, nationalist activist, 79
  • 17 July – Sir Julian Hodge, banker, 99
  • 18 July – Emrys Evans, banker
  • 29 July – Linford Rees, psychiatrist, 89
  • 5 August – Jim Alford, athlete, 90
  • 8 August – Richard Taylor, skater and skier, 23
  • 20 August – Arthur Lever, footballer, 84
  • 1 September – Gordon Parry, Baron Parry, 78
  • 10 September – Glyn Owen, actor, 76
  • 15 September – Sue Noake, athletics official
  • 20 September – Bill Shortt, footballer, 83
  • 25 September – Michael Treharne Davies, Catholic writer, 68
  • 13 October – Bernice Rubens, novelist, 76
  • 21 October – Brinley Rees, academic, 84
  • 9 November – Emlyn Hughes, English footballer of Welsh parentage, 57
  • 14 November – David Stanley Evans, astronomer, 88
  • 15 November – John Morgan, comedian, 74
  • 25 November – John St. Bodfan Gruffydd, landscape architect, 94
  • 29 November – Jonah Jones, sculptor, writer, and educationist, 85
  • 4 December – Sir Anthony Meyer, politician, 84
  • 14 December – Harry Bowcott, international rugby player and president of the Welsh Rugby Union, 97