1929 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1929 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Archbishop of Wales – Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph
 * Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Pedrog

Events

 * 6 January - The abbey on Caldey Island is handed over by the Benedictine order to its new owners, Belgian Cistercians.
 * February - 700 people are involved in a riot at Cwmfelinfach, when strikebreakers are used during an industrial dispute at the Nine Mile Point Colliery.
 * 13 March - Former ironclad warship HMS Warrior (1860) is towed to Pembroke Dock to finish her service with the Royal Navy as an oil fuelling hulk.
 * 24–26 April - The Royal Air Force's Squadron Leader Arthur G. Jones-Williams and Flight Lieutenant Norman H. Jenkins make the first non-stop flight from Britain to India.
 * 30 May - In the United Kingdom general election:
 * Megan Lloyd George becomes Liberal MP for Anglesey – the first female MP in Wales.
 * Aneurin Bevan becomes MP for Ebbw Vale.
 * Other newly elected MPs include John Jestyn Llewellin at Uxbridge and Robert Richards at Wrexham.
 * Lewis Valentine is Plaid Cymru’s first parliamentary candidate. Plaid Cymru obtain a total of 609 votes in Wales.
 * J. H. Thomas becomes Lord Privy Seal in the new government.
 * 9 July - After a collision with another vessel, HMS L12, the Royal Navy submarine H47 sinks off the Pembrokeshire coast, killing 21 crewmen.
 * 10 July - Nine miners are killed in a mining accident at Milfraen, Blaenavon.
 * 11 November - 8.3 in of rain falls within a single day at Lluest-wen Reservoir, a record for a place in Wales. Below in the Rhondda this month, 400 people are made homeless by flooding.
 * 25 November - Cargo steamer Molesey is wrecked on Skomer Island with the loss of 7 lives; British Movietone News shoots the first-ever sound footage of such an event.
 * 28 November - Seven miners are killed in an accident at Wernbwll Colliery, Penclawdd.
 * date unknown
 * The University of Wales begins awarding teacher training certificates at colleges of education in Wales.
 * The number of motor vehicles in Wales exceeds 100,000 for the first time.

Arts and literature

 * The first Urdd National Eisteddfod is held, at Corwen Pavilion.

Awards

 * National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Liverpool)
 * National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David Emrys Jones, "Dafydd ap Gwilym"
 * National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Caradog Prichard, "Y Gân Ni Chanwyd"

English language

 * John Hugh Edwards - David Lloyd George, the Man and the Statesman
 * Richard Hughes - A High Wind in Jamaica
 * Elisabeth Inglis-Jones - Starved Fields
 * Huw Menai - The Passing of Guto
 * Bertrand Russell - Marriage and Morals

Welsh language

 * Ambrose Bebb - Llydaw
 * Kate Roberts - Rhigolau Bywyd

Music

 * W. Bradwen - Paradwys y Bardd
 * David John de Lloyd - Forty Welsh Traditional Tunes (arrangements)

Film

 * Ray Milland appears in his first Hollywood films.

Broadcasting

 * Welsh-language radio begins to be broadcast from the BBC's Daventry transmitter.

Sport

 * Football - The Football Association of Wales makes its first overseas tour, to Canada.
 * Rugby Union
 * 23 February - 1929 Wales beat France 8–3 at the National Stadium in Cardiff

Births

 * 2 January - John Lansdown, computer graphics pioneer (died 1999)
 * 28 January - Clem Thomas, Wales and British Lions international rugby player (died 1996)
 * 14 February - Wyn Morris, conductor (died 2010)
 * 20 March - Herbert Wilson, physicist and biophysicist (died 2008)
 * 25 April - Malcolm Thomas, Wales international rugby union captain (died 2012)
 * 20 May - Bobi Jones, author (died 2017)
 * 11 August - Alun Hoddinott, composer (died 2008)
 * 2 September - Victor Spinetti, actor (died 2012)
 * October - Robyn Léwis, politician and archdruid (died 2019)
 * 16 October - Ivor Allchurch, Wales international footballer (died 1997)
 * 20 October - Colin Jeavons, actor
 * 27 October - Alun Richards, novelist (died 2003)
 * 2 November - Carwyn James, rugby coach (died 1983)
 * 7 November - Urien Wiliam, dramatist (died 2006)
 * 4 December - Ednyfed Hudson Davies, politician (died 2018)
 * 30 December - Charles Lynn Davies, Wales international rugby player
 * date unknown
 * Paul Ferris, author
 * John Morgan, journalist and broadcaster (died 1988)

Deaths

 * 2 January - David James, Wales international rugby player, 62
 * 15 January - William Boyd Dawkins, geologist and historian, 91
 * 20 February - Henry Bruce, 2nd Baron Aberdare, 77
 * 16 April - Sir John Morris-Jones, poet and grammarian, 64
 * 29 April - Violet Herbert, Countess of Powis, 63
 * 30 April - Cliff Bowen, Wales international rugby player and county cricketer, 54
 * 13 May - David Thomas (Afan), composer, 47
 * 15 May - Grace Rhys, writer, wife of Ernest Rhys, 64
 * 30 May - Owen Davies, Baptist minister and writer, 68/9
 * 2 June - Fred Andrews, Wales international rugby player, 64
 * 15 June - Llewellyn Atherley-Jones, politician, 78/79
 * 23 July - John Hinds, businessman and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Carmarthenshire, 65
 * 29 August - Viv Huzzey, Wales international rugby union player, 53
 * 6 September - Richard Ellis, bibliographer and librarian, 62
 * 19 October - John Evan Davies, Calvinistic Methodist minister and writer, 79
 * 20 November - David Williams, archdeacon of Cardigan, 88
 * 7 December - Jenkin Jones, trade union leader, 70
 * 17 December - Arthur G. Jones-Williams, aviation pioneer, 31 (air crash)
 * 21 December - James Williams, hockey player, 51
 * date unknown - John Evan Davies, minister and writer, 78/9