1991 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1991 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

 * Secretary of State for Wales – David Hunt
 * Archbishop of Wales
 * George Noakes, Bishop of St David's (retired)
 * Alwyn Rice Jones, Bishop of St Asaph
 * Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Ap Llysor

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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * 21 October - Welshman Eric Jones is one of a team of four who make the first hot-air balloon flight over Mount Everest.
 * 25 October - Official opening of Conwy Crossing (immersed tube tunnel) to road traffic as part of A55 Conwy Bypass.
 * 8 November - Penallta Colliery closes.
 * date unknown - The Welsh Office proposes an M4 relief road between Magor and Castleton.

Arts and literature

 * August - Simultaneous translation facilities are made available for the first time at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
 * 1 September - Cantorion Colin Jones is founded in Wrexham.
 * The first Pacific Northwest Welsh Weekend is held at Seattle.
 * Wyn Calvin becomes the first Welshman to be elected King Rat of the Order of Water Rats.

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)
 * National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Einir Jones, "Pelydrau"
 * National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Angharad Tomos, Si Hei Lwli
 * Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen - withheld

English language

 * A Cardiff Anthology
 * Phil Rickman - Candlenight

Welsh language

 * Robat Arwyn & Robin Llwyd ab Owain - Gwin Beaujolais
 * Pennar Davies - Gwas y Gwaredwr
 * Glyn Tegai Hughes - Daniel Owen a Natur y Nofel
 * Saunders Lewis - Williams Pantycelyn (new ed.)
 * Prys Morgan - Brad y Llyfrau Gleision

Music

 * Datblygu - Blwch Tymer Tymor
 * Y Cyrff - Llawenydd Heb Ddiwedd (album)
 * Bonnie Tyler - Bitterblue (album)

Welsh-language films

 * Elenya
 * Un Nos Ola Leuad

English-language television

 * Joshua Jones (children's programme made by S4C)
 * Catherine Zeta-Jones makes her first appearance in The Darling Buds of May.

Welsh-language television

 * Gemau Heb Ffiniau

Sport

 * BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Ian Woosnam
 * Football
 * 5 June - Wales defeat Germany in the UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying tournament.
 * Golf - Ian Woosnam wins the US Masters at Augusta, Georgia, becoming the first Welshman to win a major tournament.
 * Rugby union - Neil Jenkins plays his first rugby match for Wales, at the age of 19.

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
 * 24 May - Aled Davies, paralympian field athlete (throwing events)
 * 5 July - Michael White, snooker player
 * 10 August - Amy Dowden, dancer
 * 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
 * 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
 * 24 March - Maudie Edwards, actress and singer, 84
 * 29 March - John Stradling Thomas, politician, 65
 * July - Evan Roberts, conservationist
 * 12 August - Edward George Bowen, CBE, physicist, 80
 * 23 August - Innes Lloyd, TV producer, 66
 * 26 August - John Petts, artist, 77
 * 31 August - Idwal Rees, Wales rugby union captain, 81
 * October - Seymour Morris, footballer, 78
 * 13 October - Donald Houston, actor, 67
 * 5 November - Gwenlyn Parry, dramatist, 59
 * 15 December - Ray Smith, actor, 55
 * 22 December - Jim Lang, Wales rugby union player, 82