Events
- February - The sea wall at Towyn is breached, resulting in flood damage to 2,800 homes, and the evacuation of a further 2,000.
- 10 June - Death of John Evans, Britain's oldest man whose age (112 years and 295 days) could be authenticated.
- 2 August - Highest ever temperature recorded in Wales, 35.2°C (95.4°F) at Hawarden.
- 1 November - Veteran Conservative politician Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns from the government.
- December - Privatisation of the former South Wales Electricity Board (SWEB) and Merseyside and North Wales Electricity Board (MANWEB).
- Following a referendum, the Vaynor Community Council in Merthyr Tydfil is abolished, the first time such an action has taken place.
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Famous quotes containing the word events:
“Since events are not metaphors, the literal-minded have a certain advantage in dealing with them.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“That’s the great danger of sectarian opinions, they always accept the formulas of past events as useful for the measurement of future events and they never are, if you have high standards of accuracy.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“We have defined a story as a narrative of events arranged in their time-sequence. A plot is also a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality. “The king died and then the queen died” is a story. “The king died, and then the queen died of grief” is a plot. The time sequence is preserved, but the sense of causality overshadows it.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)