Events
- 27 April - Ely Racecourse in Cardiff closes.
- 1 June - The submarine HMS Thetis sinks during trials in Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey. 99 men are lost.
- late August - Most paintings evacuated from the National Gallery in London to Wales.
- The Urdd establishes the first-ever Welsh-medium primary school, at Aberystwyth.
- De Havilland opens an aircraft factory at Broughton in north-east Wales.
- The first war-time evacuees arrive in Wales.
- A government report shows that seven of the thirteen Welsh counties have the highest incidence of tuberculosis in the whole of England and Wales.
- Aneurin Bevan is temporarily expelled from the Labour Party.
- George Maitland Lloyd Davies becomes President of the pacifist group Heddychwyr Cymru.
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