1971 in Wales

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February - Harold Charles becomes Bishop of St Asaph.^[1]
6 May - Singer Dickie Valentine is killed in a car accident on the Glangrwyney bridge near Crickhowell.
28 May - Opening of the Llanberis Lake Railway.
It becomes legal to register marriages in the Welsh language.
The Welsh Nursery Schools Movement is founded in Aberystwyth.
Anglesey Aluminium opens it smelting plant on the outskirts of Holyhead.
Wylfa Nuclear Power Station becomes operational.

Mary Hopkin marries record producer Tony Visconti.
Welsh performers participate in the first Festival Interceltique de Lorient in Brittany.

Merthyr Tydfil is one of the locations used for the filming of 10 Rillington Place.
Ruth Madoc appears in the film version of Fiddler on the Roof.

Comedy duo Ryan Davies and Ronnie Williams transfer their successful Welsh language show to BBC1.
Nerys Hughes gets her big break in The Liver Birds.

BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year - John Dawes
Cricket - May: In a Glamorgan home match at Sophia Gardens, Roger Davis is struck on the temple while fielding at short leg and is almost killed.
Gymnastics - Pam Hopkins wins the British Women's Championship.
Rugby union - Wales win their sixth Grand Slam.
Sailing - Nicolette Milnes-Walker becomes the first woman to sail non-stop single-handed across the Atlantic.

8 March - Harold Lloyd, American comedy actor of Welsh descent, 77
18 March - Jack Gore, Wales international rugby player, 71
19 April - Thomas Evan Nicholas (Niclas y Glais), writer and political activist, 91
18 May - William Mainwaring MP, miners' leader
20 May - Waldo Williams, poet, 66
29 May - Howell Lewis, Wales international rugby player, 83
5 July - Idris Jones, rugby player, 71
4 September – C. E. Vulliamy, author
9 November - Ceri Richards, artist
27 November - Leslie Thomas, politician, 65
1 December - Jack Jenkins, Wales international rugby player, 91
date unknown
- Brenda Chamberlain, poet and artist
- James Conway Davies, historian and palaeographer
- Jack Evans, Welsh footballer)
- Clifford Dyment, poet
- Ifan Gruffydd ("Y Gŵr o Baradwys")
- Dewi Morgan, poet, scholar and journalist

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