Events
- 3 February - An estimated 100,000 people line the streets of Cardiff for the funeral of 'peerless' Jim Driscoll.
- 13 July - The Ammanford anthracite strike begins.
- 5 August - Founding of Plaid Cymru.
- 2 November - After several days of heavy rain, the Llyn Eigiau dam at Dolgarrog on the River Conwy bursts, destroying the village of Porth-llwyd and killing 16 people.
- Clough Williams-Ellis begins construction of Portmeirion.
- US newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst buys the medieval St Donat's Castle in the Vale of Glamorgan.
- Silyn Roberts founds the North Wales branch of the Workers Educational Association.
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