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- 21 April – Elizabeth II is presented with a kilo of Welsh gold from Gwynfynydd Gold Mine for her 60th birthday, in the knowledge that supplies are becoming scarce.[4]
- May – Cardiff City and Swansea City are both relegated to the Football League Fourth Division in England. Swansea, who were in the First Division between 1981 and 1983, recently came close to going out of existence due to huge debts.[5]
- 30 June – Mardy Colliery, the last pit in the Rhondda, is closed, but underground links to Tower Colliery in the Cynon Valley enable the coal cut there to be raised at Tower.[6]
- September – The Wales National Ice Rink opens in Cardiff.[7]
- November – Castles and Town Walls of King Edward in Gwynedd (Beaumaris, Caernarfon, Conwy and Harlech Castles and Caernarfon and Conwy town walls, designated collectively) become the first Welsh sites designated as UNESCO World Heritage Sites, in the first tranche of U.K. designations.
- December – Bersham Colliery, the last deep mine in the Denbighshire Coalfield, is closed.
- date unknown – A planning application is turned down at Llanrhaeadr, Clwyd, on the grounds that it would be detrimental to the Welsh language. It is the first time such a decision has ever been made.[8]
Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Fishguard)
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Gwynn ap Gwilym, "Y Cwmwl"[10]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – T James Jones, "Llwch"[11]
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Ray Evans
- Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen – Robat Gruffudd, Llosgi
Welsh-language television
English-language television
- 9 January – Craig Davies, footballer
- 20 January – Hannah Daniel, actress
- 3 February – David Edwards, footballer
- 11 February – Robin Hawkins, singer and bass player
- 21 February – Charlotte Church, singer[19]
- 21 March – Samantha Bowen, Paralympic sitting volleyball player[20]
- 28 March – Jay Curtis, broadcaster and actor
- 31 March – Matthew Collins, footballer
- 11 April – Dai Greene, athlete[21]
- 25 May – Geraint Thomas, cyclist[22]
- 17 November – Joe Jacobson, footballer
- 8 January – Mansel Thomas, conductor and composer, 76[23]
- 9 January – Wilson Jones, footballer, 71
- 15 January – Alfred Bestall, illustrator, 93[24]
- 16 February – John Tripp, poet, 58[25]
- 28 February – Sir Thomas Williams, lawyer and politician, 70
- 1 March – Tommy Farr, boxer, 72[26]
- 5 March – Lewis Valentine, political activist, 92[27]
- 10 March
- 14 March – Sir Huw Wheldon, television producer and presenter, 69
- 30 April – George Whitcombe, footballer, 84
- 5 June – John Bevan, Wales rugby union coach, 38
- 29 July – Gordon Mills, music industry manager, 51[29]
- 29 August – Annie Powell, politician and Wales's first Communist mayor, 79[30]
- 18 September – Elwyn Davies, university and cultural administrator, 77[31]
- 1 November – Tom Arthur, Wales national rugby player, 80
- 6 November (at Henley-on-Thames) – Howard Thomas, radio producer, 77
- November/December – Ivor Davies, Liberal politician, journalist and administrator, 71[32]
- 13 December – Glyn Daniel, archaeologist, 72[33]
- date unknown
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Flynn, Jessica (12 December 2014). "Ice, ice baby". WalesOnline. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
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Donna R. White (1998). A century of Welsh myth in children's literature. Greenwood Press. p. 152. ISBN 9780313305702.
Christopher Harvie (2008). A floating commonwealth: politics, culture, and technology on Britain's Atlantic coast, 1860-1930. OUP Oxford. p. 17. ISBN 9780198227830.
Andrew Duncan (2005). Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry. Liverpool University Press. p. x. ISBN 9780853237440.
Eirwyn George (2012). "Dic Jones". Welsh Lives: Gone But Not Forgotten. Y Lolfa. ISBN 9781847714879.
British Book News. National Book League. 1986. p. 260.
"Annie Powell". New York Times. 29 August 1986. Retrieved 31 January 2019.