Events
- 1 January – The 1st The Queen's Dragoon Guards (informally known as the "Welsh Cavalry") is formed.
- February – The Queen makes the red dragon on a green and white background the official flag of Wales.
- 4 May – Aneurin Bevan is elected deputy leader of the Labour Party.
- 8 October – At the UK general election:
- Newly-elected MPs include John Morris (Aberavon); Donald Box (Cardiff North); Ifor Davies (Gower) and Geraint Morgan (Denbigh).
- Poet Waldo Williams stands as a Plaid Cymru candidate.
- Hugh Dalton retires from Parliament.
- The Local Government Commission for Wales is set up, chaired by Sir Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans.
- Sir William Jones resigns from the Council for Wales and Monmouthshire in protest at the appointment of Henry Brooke.
- Thomas Parry becomes Principal of University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
- Will Paynter becomes Secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (Great Britain).
- Gomer Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, sells his holdings in Kemsley Newspapers to Roy Thomson.
- Gilbern Sports Cars begin production of their kit cars at Llantwit Fardre, Pontypridd, Glamorgan.
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“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)
“One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant. They are two orders of fact which reflect each other, which are always linked and which sometimes provoke each other.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)
“If I have renounced the search of truth, if I have come into the port of some pretending dogmatism, some new church, some Schelling or Cousin, I have died to all use of these new events that are born out of prolific time into multitude of life every hour. I am as bankrupt to whom brilliant opportunities offer in vain. He has just foreclosed his freedom, tied his hands, locked himself up and given the key to another to keep.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)