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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