Events
- 2 January - Workers at British Steel go on strike over pay.
- May - Plaid Cymru leader Gwynfor Evans announces his intention to go on hunger strike in protest against the government's failure to honour its promise of a fourth Welsh-language television channel. The government backs down on 17 September, a few weeks before Evans's deadline.
- 8 June - Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones preaches for the last time, at Barcombe Baptist Chapel.
- 11 July - Britannia Bridge A55 road deck officially opened by The Prince of Wales.
- John Maddox becomes editor of Nature.
- The Church in Wales votes to ordain women deacons.
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