2002 in Wales - Events

Events

  • In the BBC's 100 Greatest Britons poll, those with a Welsh connection who finished in the top 100 were:
    • Diana, Princess of Wales - 3
    • Elizabeth I of England - 7
    • Owain Glyndŵr - 23
    • Henry VIII of England - 40
    • Aneurin Bevan - 45
    • Henry V of England - 72
    • Richard Burton - 96
  • April - Welsh Assembly Government concessionary travel scheme (‘Cerdyn Cymru’) entitles over-60s and registered disabled people to uniform free off-peak travel on all stage carriage bus services.
  • May - H & Claire release their debut single.
  • May 25 - Jessica Garlick represents the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest held in Estonia.
  • June
    • Archaeologists discover the Newport ship.
    • DNA from the exhumed body of Joe Kappen proves beyond reasonable doubt that he was responsible for the murders of three teenage girls in 1973.
  • June 18 - Cowbridge businessman Peter Shaw is kidnapped while working in Tbilisi, Georgia. He is held in brutal conditions until he escapes in November.
  • June 28 - David Morris receives four life sentences for the Clydach murders of June 1999. Despite his having been a suspect days after the murder was committed, it had taken police 21 months to arrest and charge him.
  • July - Research reveals that Wales has the highest figures for company failures of any region of the UK.
  • August - "Barney" saves his owners' lives by warning them of a fire at their home in Wrexham.
  • August 5 - Rowan Williams is admitted to the Gorsedd of bards.
  • October - Archaeological excavations on a Bronze Age site recover the Banc Ty'nddôl sun-disc, one of the earliest gold objects found in Wales.
  • October 24 - Paul Murphy is appointed Secretary of State for Northern Ireland.

Read more about this topic:  2002 In Wales

Famous quotes containing the word events:

    “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)

    “By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques share decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.”
    —C. Wright Mills (1916–1962)

    “The prime lesson the social sciences can learn from the natural sciences is just this: that it is necessary to press on to find the positive conditions under which desired events take place, and that these can be just as scientifically investigated as can instances of negative correlation. This problem is beyond relativity.”
    —Ruth Benedict (1887–1948)