Arts and Literature
- January
- Karl Jenkins is awarded the OBE in the New Year's Honours List.
- Sian Pearce becomes the first female musical director of the Morriston Orpheus Choir.
- 9 April - Celebration Fanfare by the Welsh composer Alun Hoddinott is performed at the wedding of the Prince of Wales.
- 17 April - Rhys Ifans wins the Best Actor award at the British Academy Television Awards. Michael Sheen is also nominated.
- May - Gwyneth Lewis becomes the first National Poet for Wales.
- 25 May - Katherine Jenkins's album Second Nature is named Album of the Year at the 2005 Classical BRIT Awards.
- 19 June - The American soprano Nicole Cabell wins the final of the Cardiff Singer of the World competition for 2005.
- 2 July - Katherine Jenkins and the Stereophonics perform in the Live8 concerts.
- November - Dawn, by Shreepali Patel, is awarded the D. M. Davies Award at the Cardiff Screen Festival.
- December - Connie Fisher makes her first professional theatre appearance in panto at Milford Haven Torch Theatre.
- Gillian Clarke is appointed Cardiff's first "Capital Poet".
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