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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1982 to Wales and its people.
Incumbents
- Prince of Wales - Charles
- Princess of Wales – Diana
- Secretary of State for Wales – Nicholas Edwards
- Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor (retired)
- Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Jâms Nicholas
Events
- 2 January - The Welsh Army of Workers claims responsibility for a bomb explosion at the Birmingham headquarters of Severn Trent Water.[1]
- May - Swansea City complete their first season in the English Football League First Division with a sixth-place finish.[2]
- 2 June - 100,000 people gather in Pontcanna Fields, Cardiff, to welcome Pope John Paul II on the first-ever papal visit to Wales.
- 8 June - 32 men from the Welsh Guards are killed when the Sir Galahad burns during the Falklands War. The most famous of the survivors is Simon Weston, who is severely burned.
- 16 June - Welsh miners go on strike to support health workers demanding a 12% pay rise.[3]
- 30 August - St David's Hall opens in Cardiff.
- 11 September - 14 skydivers from Wales die when a Chinook helicopter crashes at an airshow in Mannheim in Germany.[4]
- 16 September - At the Gower by-election brought about by the death of Ifor Davies, Gareth Wardell holds the seat for Labour.
- 17 October - First issue of Sulyn, the first Sunday newspaper in the Welsh language.
- A monument is erected at Gresford in memory of those who died in the Gresford Disaster of 1934.
- The Inmos microprocessor factory in Newport, Wales, designed by the Richard Rogers Partnership, is completed.
- Swansea is given the right to have a Lord Mayor.
- First students begin courses at the Welsh language study centre at Nant Gwrtheyrn.
Arts and literature
- Roger Rees wins a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby.
- Alice Thomas Ellis is shortlisted for the Booker Prize for The 27th Kingdom.
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Swansea)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Gerallt Lloyd Owen
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Eirwyn George
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Gwilym M. Jones
New books
- Gwynfor Evans - Bywyd Cymro
- Alun Jones - Pan Ddaw'r Machlud
- R. Merfyn Jones - The North Wales Quarrymen 1874-1922
- Rhiannon Davies Jones - Eryr Pengwern
- Kenneth O. Morgan - Rebirth of a Nation: Wales 1880-1980
- Wynford Vaughan-Thomas - Princes of Wales
Music
- John Cale - Music For A New Society (album)
- Dafydd Iwan with Ar Log - Rhwng Hwyl a Thaith
Film
- Political Annie’s Off Again, film of a local industrial dispute made by Chapter Video Workshop.
Broadcasting
Welsh-language television
- Cefn Gwlad
- Joni Jones
- Noson Lawen appears for the first time.
- S4C starts broadcasting on 1 November
English-language television
- The Citadel (BBC), filmed in Tredegar.
Sport
- Boxing
- 14 September - Kelvin Smart becomes British flyweight champion after beating fellow Welsh fighter Dave George.
- Darts - Ann-Marie Davies wins the Women's World Masters Championship.
- Snooker - Terry Parsons wins the World Amateur Championship. Terry Griffiths wins the UK Open and the Mercantile Classic.
Births
- 1 February - Gavin Henson, rugby player
- 4 February - Kevin Gall, footballer
- 2 May - Timothy Benjamin, athlete
- 12 May - David Thaxton, actor and singer
- 21 June - Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, son of the Prince and Princess of Wales
- 29 August - Mike Phillips, rugby player
- 2 September - Matthew Rees, footballer
- 29 November - Imogen Thomas, model
- 25 December - Rob Edwards, footballer
- date unknown - Amanda Hale, actress
Deaths
- 5 January - Janetta Thomas, UK's oldest person and oldest Welsh-born woman of all time, 112
- 11 January - Ronald Lewis, actor, 53
- 5 February - Ronald Welch, historical novelist, 72
- 8 February - Cedric Morris, artist, 92
- 6 May - Jennie Eirian Davies, politician and magazine editor
- 19 May - Elwyn Jones, television writer, 58
- 31 May - Eryl Davies, educationist, 59
- 6 June - Ifor Davies, politician, 71
- 10 July
- Gwilym Jenkins (in Lancaster), statistician and systems engineer, 49
- Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen, philosopher, 60
- 17 July - Bob John, footballer, 83
- 16 August - Sydney Hinam, Wales international rugby player, 83
- 18 October - James Idwal Jones, politician, 82
- 19 October - Iorwerth Peate, founder of St Fagans National History Museum, 81
- 4 November - Talfryn Thomas, comedy actor, 60
- 16 November - Ivor Jones, rugby union international, 80
- 19 November - Herbie Evans, footballer, 88
- 4 December - Ivor Williams, artist, 74
References
- ↑ "Those were the days". Wolverhampton: Express & Star. Retrieved 2011-04-04.
- ↑
- ↑ "1982: Welsh miners back health workers". On This Day. BBC News. 16 June 2008. Retrieved 2007-11-30.
- ↑ Moore, Sarah. "Swansea skydivers remembered 30 years after Mannheim crash". BBC News. Retrieved 11 September 2012.
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