Events
- 10 January - An Aer Lingus Douglas DC-3 aircraft on a London–Dublin flight crashes in Wales due to vertical draft in the mountains of Snowdonia, killing twenty passengers and the three crew.
- 5 July - Six miners are killed in a mining accident at Point of Ayr colliery in north Wales.
- 15 August - Wenvoe transmitting station begins broadcasting 405-line VHF BBC Television to south Wales and the west of England on Band I channel 5 (66.75 MHz).
- 3 September - Mahmood Hussein Mattan is the last person to be executed at Cardiff Prison.
- 19 October - A small Welsh republican group, Y Gweriniaethwyr, make an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the water pipeline leading from the Claerwen dam in mid Wales to Birmingham.
- 23 October - Opening of Claerwen reservoir, the first engagement carried out in Wales by Elizabeth II since her accession as Queen of the United Kingdom.
- Lake Bala bursts its banks and floods many parts of the Vale of Edeyrnion.
- Following the retirement of Hugh O'Neill, David Grenfell becomes Father of the House.
- Pennar Davies becomes Principal of Swansea Memorial College.
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