1960 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1960 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Archbishop of Wales – Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth
 * Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
 * William Morris (outgoing)
 * Trefin (incoming)

Events

 * 1 January – Portmeirion Pottery is established when Susan Williams-Ellis and her husband Euan Cooper-Willis (managers of the gift shop at her father's village of Portmeirion) take over Gray's Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent (England).
 * 5 January – Closure of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway (opened to passengers in 1807 and by this date operated by double-deck electric trams). The service is replaced by buses operated by its owner South Wales Transport.
 * 28 June – Forty-five miners are killed in an accident at Six Bells Colliery, Monmouthshire.
 * 6 August – At Llandaff Cathedral a service of thanksgiving attended by Queen Elizabeth II is held to mark the end of eleven years' restoration work following air raid damage in 1941.
 * 5 September – Poet and peace campaigner Waldo Williams is sentenced at Haverfordwest to imprisonment for six weeks for non-payment of income tax (a protest against defence spending).
 * 3 November – Esso opens the first oil refinery at Milford Haven.

Arts and literature

 * 29 September – Ricky Valance is the first male Welsh singer to hit number one in the charts, with his cover version of Tell Laura I Love Her.

Awards

 * National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Cardiff)
 * National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – withheld
 * National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – W. J. Gruffydd, "Unigedd"
 * National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Rhiannon Davies Jones, Fe Hen Lyfr Cownt

New books

 * Glyn M. Ashton – Tipyn o Annwyd
 * Thomas Glynne Davies – Haf Creulon
 * Menna Gallie – Man's Desiring
 * Dic Jones – Agor Grwn
 * Kate Roberts – Y Lôn Wen
 * Bernice Rubens – Set on Edge
 * Raymond Williams – Border Country

New drama

 * Saunders Lewis – Esther

Music

 * Alun Hoddinott – Concerto no. 2
 * Arwel Hughes – Serch yw’r Doctor (opera)

Albums

 * Osian Ellis – Handel (with the Philomusica of London conducted by Granville Jones
 * Treorchy Male Choir – Nidaros
 * Die Zauberflöte (featuring Geraint Evans)

Film

 * Glynis Johns stars in The Sundowners.
 * Rachel Roberts stars in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, becoming the first Welsh actress to win a BAFTA for Best British Actress.
 * Keith Baxter appears alongside Orson Welles in Chimes at Midnight.

Broadcasting
September – The Wales Television Association is formed. On 6 June, the franchise is awarded to the Wales Television Association.

Welsh-language television

 * Colegau Cerdd
 * Her Yr Ifanc

English-language television

 * 1 January – Broadcast of the first weekly episode of an eight-part serialization by BBC Wales of How Green Was My Valley.
 * Johnny Morris narrates the imported children's TV series Tales of the Riverbank.

Sport

 * Boxing – Dick Richardson wins the European Heavyweight title. Brian Curvis wins the British and Commonwealth welterweight titles.
 * Summer Olympics – David Broome wins a bronze medal on Sunsalve in the individual show jumping event.
 * Tennis – Mike Davies wins the British hard court title. He also becomes the first Welsh man to reach a Wimbledon final where he partners Bobby Wilson in the Men's Doubles.
 * BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Brian Curvis

Births

 * January – Anne Boden, banking executive
 * 16 January – Alun Huw Davies, vascular surgeon
 * 30 January – Peter Black AM, politician (in Wirral)
 * 6 February – Jeremy Bowen, journalist and television presenter
 * 14 February – Dawn Bowden, politician
 * 15 February – Russell Coughlin, footballer (d. 2016)
 * 18 February – Rhys Parry Jones, actor
 * 26 February – Roger Lewis, academic, biographer and journalist
 * 30 April – Martin Phillips, darts player
 * 3 May – Geraint Davies, politician
 * 4 May – Elfyn Edwards, golfer
 * 9 May – Jillian Lane, spiritual medium (d. 2013)
 * 13 June – Sir Clive Buckland Lewis, judge
 * 19 June – Andrew Dilnot, economist, statistician and academic
 * 23 June – Ricky Evans, rugby union player
 * 29 June – Helen Mary Jones, politician (in Colchester)
 * 13 July – Ian Hislop, satirist
 * 24 July – Gwilym Emyr Owen III, US-born singer-songwriter of Welsh descent
 * 1 August – Lesley Griffiths, politician
 * 18 September
 * Carolyn Harris, politician
 * Ian Lucas, politician
 * 29 October – Sue Jones, Dean of Liverpool
 * 12 December – Kelvin Smart, flyweight boxer
 * 24 December – Carol Vorderman, television personality (in Bedford)
 * date unknown
 * Nigel Davies, chess player
 * Lisa Francis, politician
 * Gareth Jones, orchestral and choral conductor
 * Malcolm Pryce, novelist (in Shrewsbury)
 * William Owen Roberts, novelist and dramatist

Deaths

 * 2 January – Leila Megàne, opera singer, c. 69
 * 13 January – Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke, 79
 * 17 January – E. Llwyd Williams, minister and poet, 53
 * 19 January – Charles Jones, Wales rugby international, 66
 * 27 January – Joseph "Joe" Jones, dual-code rugby international, 60
 * 25 February – Sir Edward Enoch Jenkins, judge, 65
 * 30 March – Edward Evans, politician and disability campaigner, 77
 * 11 April – William Llewellyn Morgan, Wales international rugby union player, 76
 * 7 May – Mai Jones, songwriter, 61
 * 23 May – John Edwards, politician, 77
 * 4 June – Margaret Lindsay Williams, artist, 71
 * 19 June – Thomas Alwyn Lloyd, architect, 78
 * 27 June – Harry Pollitt, politician, 69
 * 30 June – John Morgan Lloyd, musician and composer, 79
 * 6 July – Aneurin Bevan, politician, 62
 * 9 July – John Dyke, Wales international rugby union player, 76
 * 24 August – Dai Edwards, Wales dual-code rugby international, 64
 * 25 August – Tommy Jones-Davies, Wales international rugby player, 54
 * 30 August – "Taffy" Jones, First World War flying ace, 64
 * 31 August – Edith Picton-Turbervill, social reformer, writer and politician, 88
 * 3 September – Frank Hawkins, rugby international, 75
 * 27 September – George Morgan Trefgarne, 1st Baron Trefgarne, politician, 66
 * 29 October – Horace Williams, footballer, c. 60
 * 19 December
 * Billy Bowen, dual-code rugby player, 63
 * Helen Parry Eden, Welsh-descended poet, 75
 * 20 December – Harry Uzzell, Wales international rugby union captain, 77
 * 22 December – Evan Davies, politician, 85