Events
- 2 March - Carmarthen MP Dr Roger Thomas announces his resignation, having been prosecuted for importuning.
- 12 March - The miners' strike begins, with a solid turn out from all NUM mines in Wales.
- 3 May - At the Cynon Valley by-election brought about by the death of MP Ioan Lyonel Evans, Ann Clwyd retains the seat for Labour with an increased majority.
- 19 July - The Lleyn Peninsula earthquake, which strikes the Llŷn Peninsula at 06:56 UTC (07:56 BST), measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale, is the largest known onshore earthquake to occur in the UK since instrumental measurements began.
- 30 November - Taxi driver David Wilkie is killed when a concrete block is dropped onto his car as he drives a strikebreaker to work on the M4 motorway. Dean Hancock and Russell Shankland of Rhymney are later convicted of murder.
- Dafydd Wigley resigns as leader of Plaid Cymru for domestic reasons.
- Sam Edwards becomes Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge.
- Clive Sinclair's C5 electric vehicle is manufactured at the Hoover works in Merthyr Tydfil.
- Creation of Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments Executive Agency.
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