1975 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1975 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State for Wales – John Morris
 * Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor
 * Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
 * Brinli (outgoing)
 * Bryn (incoming)

Events

 * 20 March - Opening of the Cleddau Bridge at Milford Haven.
 * 14 April - Actor/singer Michael Flanders dies suddenly of an intracranial berry aneurysm while on holiday in Betws-y-Coed.
 * May - A leak from the Esso Tenby tanker off the coast of Pembrokeshire kills an estimated 1,300 seabirds.
 * 28 July - 8 people are injured when a train is derailed between Sarnau and St Clears.
 * 19 November - The Wales national football team qualifies for the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 1976, beating Austria 1-0 in Wrexham.
 * date unknown - The Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust is established.

Arts and literature

 * Ryan and Ronnie announce the end of their comedy partnership.

Awards

 * National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Criccieth)
 * National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Gerallt Lloyd Owen
 * National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Elwyn Roberts
 * National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld
 * National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld

English language

 * Gwynfor Evans - National Future for Wales
 * Jeremy Hooker - Soliloquies of a Chalk Giant
 * Emyr Humphries - Flesh and Blood
 * Joseph Jenkins - Diary of a Welsh Swagman (posthumous)
 * Richard Llewellyn - Green, Green, My Valley Now
 * Moelwyn Merchant - Breaking the Code
 * Prys Morgan - Iolo Morganwg
 * Leslie Norris - Mountains, Polecats, Pheasants and other Elegies
 * Bernice Rubens - I Sent a Letter to My Love
 * Peter Tinniswood - Except You're a Bird
 * Rhydwen Williams - The Angry Vineyard

Welsh language

 * Aneirin Talfan Davies - Diannerch Erchwyn a Cherddi Eraill
 * J. Eirian Davies - Cân Galed
 * T. Glynne Davies - Marged
 * Richard Cyril Hughes - Catrin o Ferain
 * T. Llew Jones - Tân ar y Comin
 * Alan Llwyd - Edrych Trwy Wydrau Lledrith
 * Marged Pritchard - Gwylanod ar y Mynydd
 * Eurys Rowlands (ed.) - Lewys Môn
 * Gwyn Thomas - Y Pethau Diwethaf a Phethau Eraill

New drama

 * W. S. Jones - Y Toblarôn
 * Saunders Lewis - Dwy Briodas Ann

Music

 * Max Boyce - We All Had Doctors' Papers
 * Edward H. Dafis - Ffordd Newydd Eingl-Americanaidd Grêt o Fyw
 * Dave Edmunds - Subtle As A Flying Mallet
 * Andy Fairweather-Low - La Booga Rooga, album featuring the top ten hit single "Wide Eyed and Legless"

Film

 * Rachel Roberts appears in Picnic at Hanging Rock.
 * Ken Loach's Days of Hope is partly set in Wales.

Welsh-language films

 * None

Welsh-language television

 * The Siberry Report recommends a new Welsh-language fourth channel broadcasting 25 hours a week of Welsh-language programmes, with BBC and HTV each responsible for 50% of the output.

English-language television

 * Grand Slam, starring Hugh Griffith and Windsor Davies
 * How Green Was My Valley adapted for television by Elaine Morgan, starring Stanley Baker, Sian Phillips, Mike Gwilym, Nerys Hughes and Gareth Thomas.
 * Angharad Rees stars in Poldark.

Sport

 * Boxing – Pat Thomas wins the British Welterweight title.
 * Darts – Wales win the Home International Series.
 * Football – The Wales national football team qualifies for the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 1976.
 * Snooker – Ray Reardon wins his fourth World Championship title.
 * Arfon Griffiths wins BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year.

Births

 * 12 March - Richard Harrington, actor
 * 21 March - Mark Williams, snooker player
 * 5 April - John Hartson, footballer
 * 22 May - Kelly Morgan, badminton player
 * 18 June - Jem, singer
 * 1 July - Hayley Tullett, athlete
 * 24 July - Dafydd James, rugby player
 * 4 September - Kai Owen, actor
 * 26 September - Dai Thomas, footballer
 * 19 October - Jamie Donaldson, golfer
 * 28 October - Adrian Durston, rugby player
 * 5 November - Lisa Scott-Lee, singer
 * 25 November - Paul Mealor, composer
 * date unknown
 * Euros Childs, songwriter
 * Cynan Jones, novelist

Deaths

 * 14 February - Arthur Probert, politician, 67
 * 23 February - Ossie Male, rugby player, 81
 * 3 March - T. H. Parry-Williams, poet, 87
 * 15 March - Edward James, cricketer, 78
 * 6 April - Tom Morgan, cricketer, 81
 * 23 April - Pete Ham, musician, leader of the group Badfinger (suicide), 27
 * 24 April - Stephen Halden Beattie, recipient of the Victoria Cross, 67
 * 21 May - A. H. Dodd, historian, 83
 * 7 June - Jack Smith, footballer, 63
 * 7 August - Jim Griffiths, politician, 84
 * 27 August - Noel Morgan, cricketer, 69
 * 4 September - Walley Barnes, footballer and broadcaster, 55
 * 5 October - Will Davies, rugby player, 69
 * 6 November - Norman Riches, cricketer
 * 10 November - Emrys Davies, cricketer, 71
 * 18 December - R. Ifor Parry, minister, teacher and philanthropist, 67
 * date unknown
 * Robert Herring, poet and critic, 72
 * Alun Jeremiah Jones (Alun Cilie), poet
 * Huw Lloyd Edwards, dramatist