Sport
- Boxing
- 28 February - Johnny Owen defeats Juan Francisco Rodriguez at Ebbw Vale to win the European bantamweight championship.
- 28 June - Johnny Owen defeats John Feeny at the Empire Pool, Wembley.
- 19 September - Johnny Owen fights Lupe Pintor in Los Angeles. Owen is knocked out and goes into a coma from which he never emerges, being pronounced dead on 4 November.
- Rugby union
- Fifteen Welsh players are included in the squad of 38 for the 1980 British Lions tour to South Africa: Elgan Rees, Ray Gravell, David Richards, Peter Morgan, Gareth Davies, Terry Holmes, Clive Williams, Ian Stephens, Graham Price, Alan Phillips, Allan Martin, Jeff Squire, Stuart Lane, Derek Quinnell and Gareth Powell Williams.
- 18 October - 1 November: 1980 New Zealand rugby union tour of Wales
- 1 November: Wales 3-23 New Zealand
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