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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1975 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
Events
- 20 March - Opening of the Cleddau Bridge at Milford Haven.[5]
 - 14 April - Actor/singer Michael Flanders dies suddenly of an intracranial berry aneurysm while on holiday in Betws-y-Coed.
 - May - A leak from the Esso Tenby tanker off the coast of Pembrokeshire kills an estimated 1,300 seabirds.[6]
 - 28 July - 8 people are injured when a train is derailed between Sarnau and St Clears.
 - 19 November - The Wales national football team qualifies for the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 1976, beating Austria 1-0 in Wrexham.
 - date unknown - The Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust is established.
 
Arts and literature
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Criccieth)
 - National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Gerallt Lloyd Owen
 - National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Elwyn Roberts
 - National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld
 
New books
English language
- Gwynfor Evans - National Future for Wales
 - Jeremy Hooker - Soliloquies of a Chalk Giant
 - Emyr Humphries - Flesh and Blood
 - Joseph Jenkins - Diary of a Welsh Swagman (posthumous)[7]
 - Richard Llewellyn - Green, Green, My Valley Now
 - Moelwyn Merchant - Breaking the Code
 - Prys Morgan - Iolo Morganwg
 - Leslie Norris - Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies
 - Bernice Rubens - I Sent a Letter to My Love
 - Peter Tinniswood - Except You're a Bird
 - Rhydwen Williams - The Angry Vineyard
 
Welsh language
- Aneirin Talfan Davies - Diannerch Erchwyn a Cherddi Eraill[8]
 - J. Eirian Davies - Cân Galed
 - T. Glynne Davies - Marged
 - Richard Cyril Hughes - Catrin o Ferain[9]
 - T. Llew Jones - Tân ar y Comin[10]
 - Alan Llwyd - Edrych Trwy Wydrau Lledrith[11]
 - Marged Pritchard - Gwylanod ar y Mynydd[12]
 - Eurys Rowlands (ed.) - Lewys Môn
 - Gwyn Thomas - Y Pethau Diwethaf a Phethau Eraill[13]
 
New drama
- W. S. Jones - Y Toblarôn
 - Saunders Lewis - Dwy Briodas Ann[14]
 
Music
- Max Boyce - We All Had Doctors' Papers[15]
 - Edward H. Dafis - Ffordd Newydd Eingl-Americanaidd Grêt o Fyw[16]
 - Dave Edmunds - Subtle As A Flying Mallet[17]
 - Andy Fairweather-Low - La Booga Rooga, album featuring the top ten hit single "Wide Eyed and Legless"[18]
 
Film
- Rachel Roberts appears in Picnic at Hanging Rock.
 - Ken Loach's Days of Hope is partly set in Wales.
 
Welsh-language films
- None
 
Broadcasting
Welsh-language television
English-language television
- Grand Slam, starring Hugh Griffith and Windsor Davies
 - How Green Was My Valley adapted for television by Elaine Morgan, starring Stanley Baker, Sian Phillips, Mike Gwilym, Nerys Hughes and Gareth Thomas.
 - Angharad Rees stars in Poldark.
 
Sport
- Boxing – Pat Thomas wins the British Welterweight title.
 - Darts – Wales win the Home International Series.
 - Football – The Wales national football team qualifies for the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 1976.
 - Snooker – Ray Reardon wins his fourth World Championship title.[20]
 - Arfon Griffiths wins BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year.[21]
 
Births
- 12 March - Richard Harrington, actor[22]
 - 21 March - Mark Williams, snooker player
 - 5 April - John Hartson, footballer
 - 22 May - Kelly Morgan, badminton player
 - 18 June - Jem, singer
 - 1 July - Hayley Tullett, athlete
 - 24 July - Dafydd James, rugby player
 - 4 September - Kai Owen, actor
 - 26 September - Dai Thomas, footballer
 - 19 October - Jamie Donaldson, golfer
 - 28 October - Adrian Durston, rugby player
 - 5 November - Lisa Scott-Lee, singer
 - 25 November - Paul Mealor, composer
 - date unknown
- Euros Childs, songwriter
 - Cynan Jones, novelist
 
 
Deaths
- 14 February - Arthur Probert, politician, 67[23]
 - 23 February - Ossie Male, rugby player, 81
 - 3 March - T. H. Parry-Williams, poet, 87[24]
 - 15 March - Edward James, cricketer, 78
 - 6 April - Tom Morgan, cricketer, 81
 - 23 April - Pete Ham, musician, leader of the group Badfinger (suicide), 27[25]
 - 24 April - Stephen Halden Beattie, recipient of the Victoria Cross, 67[26]
 - 21 May - A. H. Dodd, historian, 83[27]
 - 7 June - Jack Smith, footballer, 63
 - 7 August - Jim Griffiths, politician, 84[28]
 - 27 August - Noel Morgan, cricketer, 69
 - 4 September - Walley Barnes, footballer and broadcaster, 55
 - 5 October - Will Davies, rugby player, 69
 - 6 November - Norman Riches, cricketer
 - 10 November - Emrys Davies, cricketer, 71
 - 18 December - R. Ifor Parry, minister, teacher and philanthropist, 67[29]
 - date unknown
- Robert Herring, poet and critic, 72[30]
 - Alun Jeremiah Jones (Alun Cilie), poet[31]
 - Huw Lloyd Edwards, dramatist
 
 
See also
References
- ↑ "Morris of Aberavon, Baron, (John Morris) (born Nov. 1931)". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u28179. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
 - ↑ David Wilbourne (8 June 2018). "Archbishop Gwilym Owen Williams — "G. O.": His life and opinions by D. T. W. Price". Church Times. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
 - ↑ Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 523. ISBN 978-0-19-211586-7.
 - ↑ Dillwyn Miles (1992). The Secret of the Bards of the Isle of Britain. Gwasg Dinefwr Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-9519926-0-9.
 - ↑ Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons (1994). Parliamentary Debates (Hansard).: House of Commons official report. H.M. Stationery Office. ISBN 978-0-10-681251-6.
 - ↑ "Digest of Welsh Statistics" (PDF). p. 1. Retrieved 7 May 2022.
 - ↑ Joseph Jenkins; William Evans (1977). Diary of a Welsh Swagman, 1869-1894. Sun Books. ISBN 978-0-7251-0246-3.
 - ↑ Llên Cymru. Gwasg Prifysgol Cymru. 2004. p. 115.
 - ↑ The New Beacon. Royal National Institute for the Blind. 1985. p. 219.
 - ↑ Daniel Hahn; Michael Morpurgo (2015). The Oxford Companion to Children's Literature. Oxford University Press. pp. 314–. ISBN 978-0-19-969514-0.
 - ↑ Glyn Jones; John Rowlands (1980). Profiles: a visitors' guide to writing in twentieth century Wales. Gomer. p. 185. ISBN 9780850887136.
 - ↑ Meic Stephens (April 1986). The Oxford companion to the literature of Wales. Oxford University Press. p. 494. ISBN 978-0-19-211586-7.
 - ↑ Alfred Owen Hughes Jarman; Gwilym Rees Hughes; Dafydd Johnston (1998). A Guide to Welsh Literature: c. 1900-1996. University of Wales Press. p. 140. ISBN 978-0-7083-1424-1.
 - ↑ Ioan M. Williams (1 January 1991). A Straitened Stage: A Study of the Theatre of J. Saunders Lewis. Seren Books. p. 203. ISBN 978-1-85411-043-5.
 - ↑ Lawrence Goldman (7 March 2013). Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005-2008. OUP Oxford. p. 616. ISBN 978-0-19-967154-0.
 - ↑ Sarah Hill (5 July 2017). 'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music. Taylor & Francis. p. 83. ISBN 978-1-351-57345-0.
 - ↑ Mike Clifford (1986). The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia of Rock. Harmony Books. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-517-56264-2.
 - ↑ Christgau, Robert (1981). "Consumer Guide '70s: L". Christgau's Record Guide: Rock Albums of the Seventies. Ticknor & Fields. ISBN 089919026X. Retrieved March 1, 2019 – via robertchristgau.com.
 - ↑ David Maxwell Barlow; Tom O'Malley; Philip Mitchell (2005). The media in Wales: voices of a small nation. University of Wales Press. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-7083-1840-9.
 - ↑ "Profile: Ray Reardon". Eurosport. 2 March 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
 - ↑ "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
 - ↑ "Dal Ati". Archived from the original on 18 December 2019. Retrieved 18 December 2019.
 - ↑ Labour Party (Great Britain) (1974). Report of the Annual Conference. Labour Representation Committee.
 - ↑ Evans, Ellis (2004). "Williams, Sir Thomas Herbert Parry- (1887–1975)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37835. Retrieved 2007-07-25. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
 - ↑ Joseph Murrells (1978). The Book of Golden Discs. Barrie and Jenkins. ISBN 978-0-214-20480-7.
 - ↑ Who was who. A. & C. Black. 1971. ISBN 9780312877460.
 - ↑ Archaeologia Cambrensis: The Journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. W. Pickering. 1976. p. 137.
 - ↑ Labour Party (Great Britain) (1974). Report of the Annual Conference. Labour Representation Committee.
 - ↑ Ioan Wyn Gruffydd. "Parry, Robert Ivor (1908-1975), minister (Cong.) and school teacher". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
 - ↑ James Donald; Anne Friedberg; Laura Marcus (1 January 1998). Close Up: Cinema And Modernism. A&C Black. p. 316. ISBN 978-0-304-33516-9.
 - ↑ Meic Stephens (23 September 1998). The new companion to the literature of Wales. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1383-1.
 
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