Events
- 14 February - Lynette White is murdered in her Cardiff flat. The case remains controversial for over 20 years.
- 26 March - The Welsh Ornithological Society is founded at Aberystwyth.
- Conway Castle, Beaumaris Castle, Caernarfon Castle and Harlech Castle become the first Welsh sites to be placed on the UNESCO World Heritage list.
- The last British Rail steam train stops operating on the Vale of Rheidol line.
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“Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The return of the asymmetrical Saturday was one of those small events that were interior, local, almost civic and which, in tranquil lives and closed societies, create a sort of national bond and become the favorite theme of conversation, of jokes and of stories exaggerated with pleasure: it would have been a ready- made seed for a legendary cycle, had any of us leanings toward the epic.”
—Marcel Proust (1871–1922)
“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.”
—Victor Hugo (1802–1885)