1991 in Wales
List of events
This article is about the particular significance of the year 1991 to Wales and its people .
Incumbents
Events
6 January - A Maltese tanker, the Kimya , capsizes off the Anglesey coast. Ten crew members are drowned, and the ship's cargo of sunflower oil causes marine pollution.[ 5]
January - Two Welsh soldiers are among those killed in the first Gulf War .
4 April - Peter Hain is elected as MP for Neath in a by-election caused by the death of the sitting MP, Donald Coleman.[ 6]
16 May - Huw Edwards is elected as MP for Monmouth in a by-election caused by the death of the sitting MP, Sir John Stradling Thomas.
23 May - A memorial to Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd is dedicated at Kidwelly Castle .[ 7]
19 July - Dean Saunders , 27-year-old Welsh international striker, becomes the most expensive player to be signed by a British club when a £2.9million fee takes him from Derby County to Liverpool , who have broken the record fee in British football for the third time in four years.[ 8]
31 August –3 September - Cardiff Ely Bread Riots : A dispute between two shopkeepers escalates into four consecutive nights of rioting in the Ely district of Cardiff.[ 9]
16 October - Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs , who turns 18 at the end of the following month, becomes the youngest full international for the Welsh national team against Germany in Nuremberg .[ 10]
21 October - Welshman Eric Jones is one of a team of four who make the first hot-air balloon flight over Mount Everest .[ 11]
25 October - Official opening of Conwy Crossing (immersed tube tunnel) to road traffic as part of A55 Conwy Bypass .
8 November - Penallta Colliery closes.[ 12]
date unknown - The Welsh Office proposes an M4 relief road between Magor and Castleton.[ 13]
Arts and literature
Awards
National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Mold , with record attendance of 164,100)
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Robin Llwyd ab Owain , "Merch Ein Amserau" (The Girl of Our Times)[ 14]
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Einir Jones , "Pelydrau"[ 15]
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Angharad Tomos , Si Hei Lwli [ 16]
Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen - withheld [ 17]
New books
English language
Welsh language
Music
Film
Welsh-language films
Broadcasting
English-language television
Welsh-language television
Sport
Births
21 January - Craig Roberts , actor
28 January - Ffion Bowen , rugby union winger
3 February - Adrian Quaife-Hobbs , racing driver
4 February - Fred Evans , boxer
28 March - David Cornell , footballer
12 April - Ashley Jazz Richards , footballer[ 29]
24 May - Aled Davies , paralympian field athlete (throwing events)
5 July - Michael White , snooker player
10 August - Amy Dowden , dancer[ 30]
23 August - Laura O'Sullivan , footballer (goalkeeper)
3 October - Jenny McLoughlin , athlete
20 October - Nathaniel Jarvis , footballer
29 November - Becky James , track racing cyclist
Deaths
14 January - Donald Coleman , politician, 65[ 31]
30 January - Rhys Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Kilgerran , politician, 83
10 February - Rowe Harding , rugby player, 89
19 February - Tom Rees , Wales international rugby player, 77
18 March - Robert Roland Hughes , neurologist, 79/80[ 32]
24 March - Maudie Edwards , actress and singer, 84[ 33]
29 March - John Stradling Thomas , politician, 65[ 34]
July - Evan Roberts , conservationist
12 August - Edward George Bowen , CBE, physicist, 80[ 35]
23 August - Innes Lloyd , TV producer, 66
26 August - John Petts , artist, 77[ 36]
31 August - Idwal Rees , Wales rugby union captain, 81
October - Seymour Morris , footballer, 78
13 October - Donald Houston , actor, 67[ 37]
5 November - Gwenlyn Parry , dramatist, 59[ 38]
15 December - Ray Smith , actor, 55
22 December - Jim Lang , Wales rugby union player, 82
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^ "Gwenllian" (PDF) . Cadw . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-23. Retrieved 2017-12-24 .
^ "Dean Saunders" . Soccerbase . Racing Post. Archived from the original on 2007-10-01. Retrieved 2017-12-24 .
^ Peter Cruchley-Jones (2001). Singing the Lord's Song in a Strange Land?: A Missiological Interpretation of the Ely Pastorate Churches, Cardiff . P. Lang. p. 75. ISBN 978-3-631-37196-1 .
^ "Giggs ends international career" . BBC . 2007-05-30. Retrieved 2017-12-24 .
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^ "Winners of the Prose Medal" . National Eisteddfod of Wales . Retrieved 7 November 2019 .
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^ Sarah Hill (5 July 2017). 'Blerwytirhwng?' The Place of Welsh Pop Music . Taylor & Francis. p. 201. ISBN 978-1-351-57345-0 .
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^ Roger Owen (15 September 2013). Gwenlyn Parry . University of Wales Press. p. 30. ISBN 978-1-78316-577-3 .
See also