Events
- April - Future Welsh Secretary Peter Hain arrives in the UK from South Africa with his family.
- 14 July - In the Carmarthen by-election, caused by the death of Megan Lloyd George, Gwynfor Evans wins Plaid Cymru's first Parliamentary seat.
- 22 July
- Fifteen people are drowned at Penmaenpool in the Mawddach estuary.
- The M4 motorway Port Talbot by-pass is opened.
- 8 September - The Severn Bridge is opened.
- 21 October - At Aberfan, following heavy rain, a colliery waste tip collapses onto the village's primary school, killing 116 children and 28 adults.
- 26 October - The Welsh Office appoints a tribunal, chaired by Edmund Davies, Baron Edmund-Davies, to investigate the causes of the Aberfan disaster.
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“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.”
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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”
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—Denis Diderot (1713–1784)