1948 in Wales

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Incumbents

21 May - Hugh Dalton is appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster.
24 June - Thomas Williams is created 1st Baron Williams of Ynyshir.
1 July - The National Museum of Wales opens the Welsh Folk Museum at St Fagans to the public, the first open-air museum in the UK (director: Iorwerth Peate).
October - Opening of the Hoover washing machine factory at Merthyr Tydfil.
December - Plas Machynlleth given to the people of the town.
Aneurin Bevan is instrumental in the passing of the Local Government Act and National Assistance Act.
Ness Edwards joins the Privy Council.
Creation of the Welsh Joint Education Committee.
Beginning of nylon manufacture at Pontypool.
Jim Griffiths becomes Chairman of the Labour Party.
The Council for Wales and Monmouthshire is established as an advisory body.
A residential Welsh-medium preparatory school for boys is founded at Llanilar in Cardiganshire.
Physicist Rhisiart Morgan Davies publishes the results of his work on stress waves.

Athletics – Tom Richards finishes second in the marathon at the London Olympics, becoming the first Welshman to win an individual athletics medal at the Olympics.
Equestrianism
- Harry Llewellyn is part of the team winning a bronze medal at the Olympic Games in London.
- The only Welsh Grand National to be run at Caerleon is won by Bora's Cottage.
Rugby Union
- 21 February – France beats Wales 3–11 at the St Helen's Ground in Swansea.

22 January - Roger Williams, UK politician
4 March - Shakin' Stevens, singer
1 April
- Dai Davies, footballer
- Peter Law, politician
- J.J. Williams, rugby player
2 April - Tom David, Wales international rugby union and rugby league player
14 May - Albert Alan Owen, composer
18 May - Keith Jarrett, rugby player
26 May (in London) - Jenny Randerson, politician
4 June (in Glasgow) - Jeff Cuthbert, politician
14 June - Ffred Ffransis, political activist
2 August - Andy Fairweather-Low, musician
9 August - Jackie Lawrence, politician
12 September (in Jamaica) - Neville Meade, heavyweight boxer (d. 2010)
24 October - Phil Bennett, rugby player
14 November (in London) - Charles, future Prince of Wales
25 November - Paul Murphy, politician
26 December - Steve Curtis, boxer (d. 1994)
date unknown
- Alan Llwyd, poet
- Manon Rhys, writer

12 January – Wilfred Bailey, 3rd Baron Glanusk, 56
21 February – Tom Pook, Wales international rugby union player, 78
8 March – Charlie Thomas, Wales international rugby player
25 April – Arthur Boucher, Wales international rugby union player, 77
30 April – David Daniel, Wales international rugby union player, 77
17 May – David Evans, organist and composer, 74
22 May – David Delta Evans (Dewi Hiraddug), journalist, author, and Unitarian minister, 82
9 June – Len Trump, Wales international rugby player, 61
18 July – John Tywi Jones, Baptist minister and journalist, 78
20 August – David John de Lloyd, composer, 65
28 August – Charles Evans Hughes, American politician of Welsh descent, 86
4 October – Arthur Whitten Brown, British aviator, in Swansea, 62
18 October – Isaac Daniel Hooson, poet, 68
17 November – B. B. Mann, Wales international rugby union player, 90

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