Events
- 18 January - Nigel Birch resigns as Economic Secretary to the Treasury.
- 25 February - The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament is launched by Bertrand Russell.
- 6 May - Murderer Vivian Teed is hanged by Robert Leslie Stewart in Swansea Prison - the last execution to take place in Wales.
- 26 July - At the Empire Games in Cardiff, the Queen announces that her son, The Prince Charles, is to be created Prince of Wales.
- 6 August - Daniel Granville West becomes the first Welsh life peer.
- 13 December - New road bridge across the River Conway at Conway supersedes Telford's suspension bridge.
- Huw T. Edwards leaves the Labour Party for Plaid Cymru in protest at the decision to flood the Tryweryn valley.
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