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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1976 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

Secretary of State for Wales – John Morris^[1]
Archbishop of Wales – Gwilym Williams, Bishop of Bangor^[2]
Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Bryn^[3]

Events

9 February - The Prince of Wales (now Charles III) becomes commander of HMS Bronington.^[4]
17 February - Operation Julie is launched; it eventually results in the break-up of one of the largest LSD manufacturing operations in the world.^[5]
March - The Welsh Regional Office of the European Community opens in Cardiff.^[6]
June–September - 1976 United Kingdom heat wave: A very hot summer brings a major drought with water shortages.
July - Miners’ leader Dai Francis challenges the Prince of Wales (now Charles III), in the election for Chancellor of the University of Wales.
25 July - Former Submarine Commander Neil Rutherford, DSC & Bar, murders four people at the Red Gables Hotel in Penmaenmawr.^[7]^[8]
4 October - The InterCity 125 high speed train runs for the first time between Swansea railway station and London Paddington.
7 December - Swansea-born former fashion model Lilian Davies marries Prince Bertil of Sweden^[9] at Drottningholm Palace after a 30-year relationship.
date unknown - David Emanuel marries Elizabeth Weiner.^[10]

Arts and literature

May 27 - Actor Stanley Baker is given a knighthood in the Prime Minister's Resignation Honours, a few months before his death.^[11]
August - Dic Jones loses the National Eisteddfod chair on a technicality.
October - Mistar Urdd is created by Wynne Melville Jones.^[12]
unknown date - Griff Rhys Jones becomes Vice-President of the Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club.^[13]

Awards

National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Cardigan)
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Alan Llwyd
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Alan Llwyd
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Marged Prichard

New books

English language

Ruth Bidgood - Not Without Homage
Glyn Davies - Overseas Investment In Wales
Kenneth O. Morgan - Keir Hardie
Bernice Rubens - I Sent a Letter to My Love

Welsh language

John Emyr - Enaid Clwyfus^[14]
Alun Llywelyn-Williams - Gwanwyn yn y Ddinas
Owain Owain - Y Dydd Olaf

Poetry

J. M. Edwards - Cerddi Ddoe a Heddiw - Egin
Donald Evans
Geraint Jarman - Cerddi Alfred Street
Gwilym R. Jones - Y Syrcas a Cherddi Eraill

New drama

John Gwilym Jones - Gobaith Mawr y Ganrif

Music

Edward H. Dafis - 'Sneb yn Becso Dam
Alun Hoddinott - Murder the Magician (opera)
Dafydd Iwan - Mae'r Darnau yn Disgyn i'w Lle (album)
Geraint Jarman - Gobaith Mawr y Ganrif (album)
Daniel Jones - Dance Fantasy
Man - The Welsh Connection
Bonnie Tyler - "Lost in France" (debut single)

Film

Welsh-language films

Y Dieithryn, produced by Emlyn Williams

Broadcasting

Sir Huw Wheldon is knighted for his services to broadcasting.

Welsh-language television

Seren Wib, presented by Emyr Glasnant and Sharon Morgan^[15]

Welsh language radio

Tros Fy Sbectol

English-language television

How Green Was My Father: a Welsh Odyssey for 1976, with Ryan Davies and Max Boyce^[16]

Sport

Football – The Wales national football team plays in the quarter-finals of UEFA Euro 1976.
BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Mervyn Davies and the Wales national rugby union team.^[17]
Rugby union – Wales win their seventh Grand Slam.
Snooker
- 30 January – Ray Reardon wins the Masters.^[18]
- 23 April – Ray Reardon wins his fifth World Championship title.^[18]

Births

14 January - Scott Young, footballer
6 April - James Fox, singer
8 May - Ian Watkins, pop singer
13 May - Mark Delaney, footballer
16 June - Cian Ciaran, musician
25 June - Iestyn Harris, rugby player^[19]
14 July - Geraint Jones, cricketer
9 August - Aled Haydn-Jones, radio producer
1 November - Buffy Williams, politician
7 November - Andrew Davies, cricketer
20 December – Adam Powell, inventor
date unknown - Steffan Cravos, musician and language activist

Deaths

3 January – Mal Evans, Beatles' former roadie and patron of Badfinger, 40 (shot)^[20]
23 January – Sir Tudor Thomas, ophthalmic surgeon, 82^[21]
26 January – Eric Francis, architect, 88^[22]
4 February – Roger Livesey, actor, 69^[23]
12 February – John Lewis, Marxist philosopher, 87^[24]
14 February - Tommy Scourfield, dual code rugby player, 66
29 March - Harold Davie, rugby player, 77^[25]
26 March - Duster Bennett, blues musician, 29 (car accident)^[26]
30 March - Jackie Mittell, footballer, 70
31 March - Billy Moore, rugby player, 66
18 April – Haydn Davies, politician, 70^[27]
28 April – Richard Hughes, novelist, 76^[28]
6 June – David Jacobs, athlete, 88
20 June – Sir Goronwy Edwards, historian, 84 ^[29]
28 June – Sir Stanley Baker, actor, 48^[30]
18 July – Jenkin Alban Davies, Wales international rugby captain, 90
22 July – Willie Evans, Welsh international footballer, 63
30 August - David Rees-Williams, 1st Baron Ogmore, politician, 72
10 October - David Lewis, 1st Baron Brecon, politician, 71
7 November - Glyn Davies, Wales international rugby union player, 49
22 November - Rupert Davies, actor, 60 (cancer)^[31]
24 November - Ambrose Baker, rugby player, ?79
date unknown
- Eveline Annie Jenkins, botanical artist, 82/83
- Meirion Williams, songwriter

References

^ "Morris of Aberavon, Baron, (John Morris) (born Nov. 1931)". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u28179. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 2021-05-05.
^ David Wilbourne (8 June 2018). "Archbishop Gwilym Owen Williams — "G. O.": His life and opinions by D. T. W. Price". Church Times. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
^ Dillwyn Miles (1992). The Secret of the Bards of the Isle of Britain. Gwasg Dinefwr Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-9519926-0-9.
^ Paul Brown (15 March 2010). Historic Ships: The Survivors. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-4456-2006-0.
^ Andy Roberts (30 September 2008). Albion Dreaming: A popular history of LSD in Britain (Revised Edition with a new foreword by Dr. Sue Blackmore). Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. p. 218. ISBN 978-981-4328-97-5.
^ Charlotte Aull Davies (1989). Welsh Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: The Ethnic Option and the Modern State. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-93116-2.
^ North Wales Weekly News, 30 September 1976.
^ Nathan Bevan (22 June 2015). "Inside the hotel where five people died in one of Wales' worst ever mass murders". WalesOnline. Retrieved 31 December 2018.
^ The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's who. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1992. ISBN 978-0-611-00817-6.
^ Richard Harrison Martin (1995). Contemporary Fashion. St. James Press. ISBN 978-1-55862-173-2.
^ Ellen Baker, 'My Husband, My Love', Woman's Own Magazine, December 1976 accessed 26 May 2012
^ Wynne Melville Jones (14 August 2014). Wyn Mel (in Welsh). Y Lolfa. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-78461-029-6.
^ M. J. Simpson (29 April 2005). Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams. Justin, Charles & Co. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-932112-35-1.
^ National Union Catalog. Rowman and Littlefield. 1973. p. 467.
^ Sharon Morgan (2012). Hanes Rhyw Gymraes (in Welsh). Y Lolfa.
^ "How Green was my Father". BBC. 27 July 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
^ "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 July 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Profile: Ray Reardon". Eurosport. 2 March 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2019.
^ "Iestyn Harris: Rallying his motley crew under the banner of Welsh pride". The Independent. 10 February 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 18 July 2017.
^ Geoffery Giuliano (2 July 2001). Lennon in America: 1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries. Cooper Square Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-4616-3561-1.
^ Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.
^ Eric Carwardine Francis at archINFORM. Retrieved 24 April 2012.
^ "Roger Livesey, Character Actor On Stage and Screen, Is Dead". New York Times. February 7, 1976. Retrieved 30 April 2019.
^ Rajani Palme Dutt (1976). The Labour Monthly. Labour Publishing Company. p. 118.
^ Peter Jackson (1998). Lions of Wales: A Celebration of Welsh Rugby Legends. Mainstream. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-84018-026-8.
^ Nick Talevski (1999). The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries. Omnibus. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-7119-7548-4.
^ Who was who. St. Martin's Press. 1971. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-312-87746-0.
^ Twentieth-century Children's Writers. Macmillan Education UK. 1978. p. 624. ISBN 9781349036486.
^ The Antiquaries Journal. H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 1978. p. 449.
^ Robert Shail (2008). Stanley Baker: A Life in Film. University of Wales Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-7083-2126-3.
^ Encyclopedia of World Biography: Supplement. Gale Research. 2001. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-7876-2945-8.

[1] "Morris of Aberavon, Baron, (John Morris) (born Nov. 1931)". WHO'S WHO & WHO WAS WHO. 2007. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.u28179. ISBN 978-0-19-954088-4. Retrieved 2021-05-05.

[2] David Wilbourne (8 June 2018). "Archbishop Gwilym Owen Williams — "G. O.": His life and opinions by D. T. W. Price". Church Times. Retrieved 6 May 2022.

[3] Dillwyn Miles (1992). The Secret of the Bards of the Isle of Britain. Gwasg Dinefwr Press. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-9519926-0-9.

[4] Paul Brown (15 March 2010). Historic Ships: The Survivors. Amberley Publishing Limited. p. 155. ISBN 978-1-4456-2006-0.

[5] Andy Roberts (30 September 2008). Albion Dreaming: A popular history of LSD in Britain (Revised Edition with a new foreword by Dr. Sue Blackmore). Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd. p. 218. ISBN 978-981-4328-97-5.

[6] Charlotte Aull Davies (1989). Welsh Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: The Ethnic Option and the Modern State. Praeger. ISBN 978-0-275-93116-2.

[7] North Wales Weekly News, 30 September 1976.

[8] Nathan Bevan (22 June 2015). "Inside the hotel where five people died in one of Wales' worst ever mass murders". WalesOnline. Retrieved 31 December 2018.

[9] The International Year Book and Statesmen's Who's who. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1992. ISBN 978-0-611-00817-6.

[10] Richard Harrison Martin (1995). Contemporary Fashion. St. James Press. ISBN 978-1-55862-173-2.

[11] Ellen Baker, 'My Husband, My Love', Woman's Own Magazine, December 1976 accessed 26 May 2012

[12] Wynne Melville Jones (14 August 2014). Wyn Mel (in Welsh). Y Lolfa. p. 64. ISBN 978-1-78461-029-6.

[13] M. J. Simpson (29 April 2005). Hitchhiker: A Biography of Douglas Adams. Justin, Charles & Co. p. 75. ISBN 978-1-932112-35-1.

[14] National Union Catalog. Rowman and Littlefield. 1973. p. 467.

[15] Sharon Morgan (2012). Hanes Rhyw Gymraes (in Welsh). Y Lolfa.

[16] "How Green was my Father". BBC. 27 July 2011. Retrieved 17 September 2023.

[17] "BBC Wales Sport Personality winners". BBC Sport. Retrieved 29 July 2021.

[RayReardonProfile-18] "Profile: Ray Reardon". Eurosport. 2 March 2010. Retrieved 16 May 2019.

[19] "Iestyn Harris: Rallying his motley crew under the banner of Welsh pride". The Independent. 10 February 2011. Archived from the original on 2022-05-01. Retrieved 18 July 2017.

[20] Geoffery Giuliano (2 July 2001). Lennon in America: 1971-1980, Based in Part on the Lost Lennon Diaries. Cooper Square Press. p. 238. ISBN 978-1-4616-3561-1.

[21] Davies, John; Jenkins, Nigel (2008). The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. Cardiff: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.

[22] Eric Carwardine Francis at archINFORM. Retrieved 24 April 2012.

[23] "Roger Livesey, Character Actor On Stage and Screen, Is Dead". New York Times. February 7, 1976. Retrieved 30 April 2019.

[24] Rajani Palme Dutt (1976). The Labour Monthly. Labour Publishing Company. p. 118.

[25] Peter Jackson (1998). Lions of Wales: A Celebration of Welsh Rugby Legends. Mainstream. p. 210. ISBN 978-1-84018-026-8.

[26] Nick Talevski (1999). The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries. Omnibus. p. 24. ISBN 978-0-7119-7548-4.

[27] Who was who. St. Martin's Press. 1971. p. 199. ISBN 978-0-312-87746-0.

[28] Twentieth-century Children's Writers. Macmillan Education UK. 1978. p. 624. ISBN 9781349036486.

[29] The Antiquaries Journal. H. Milford, Oxford University Press. 1978. p. 449.

[30] Robert Shail (2008). Stanley Baker: A Life in Film. University of Wales Press. p. 127. ISBN 978-0-7083-2126-3.

[31] Encyclopedia of World Biography: Supplement. Gale Research. 2001. p. 117. ISBN 978-0-7876-2945-8.

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 ==Events==
-*[[9 February]] - [[Charles, Prince of Wales|The Prince of Wales]] becomes commander of {{HMS|Bronington}}.<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Brown|title=Historic Ships: The Survivors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y06oAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT155|date=15 March 2010|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-2006-0|pages=155}}</ref>
+*[[9 February]] - The Prince of Wales (now [[Charles III]]) becomes commander of {{HMS|Bronington}}.<ref>{{cite book|author=Paul Brown|title=Historic Ships: The Survivors|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y06oAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT155|date=15 March 2010|publisher=Amberley Publishing Limited|isbn=978-1-4456-2006-0|pages=155}}</ref>
 *[[17 February]] - [[Operation Julie]] is launched; it eventually results in the break-up of one of the largest LSD manufacturing operations in the world.<ref>{{cite book|author=Andy Roberts|title=Albion Dreaming: A popular history of LSD in Britain (Revised Edition with a new foreword by Dr. Sue Blackmore)|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2caIAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA218|date=30 September 2008|publisher=Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd|isbn=978-981-4328-97-5|pages=218}}</ref>
 *March - The Welsh Regional Office of the [[European Community]] opens in [[Cardiff]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Charlotte Aull Davies|title=Welsh Nationalism in the Twentieth Century: The Ethnic Option and the Modern State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tHlnAAAAMAAJ|year=1989|publisher=Praeger|isbn=978-0-275-93116-2}}</ref>
 *June–September - [[1976 United Kingdom heat wave]]: A very hot summer brings a major drought with water shortages.
-*July - Miners’ leader [[Dai Francis (trade union leader)|Dai Francis]] challenges [[Charles, Prince of Wales]], in the election for Chancellor of the [[University of Wales]].
+*July - Miners’ leader [[Dai Francis (trade union leader)|Dai Francis]] challenges the Prince of Wales (now [[Charles III]]), in the election for Chancellor of the [[University of Wales]].
 *[[25 July]] - Former Submarine Commander [[Neil Rutherford]], DSC & Bar, murders four people at the Red Gables Hotel in [[Penmaenmawr]].<ref>''[[North Wales Weekly News]]'', 30 September 1976.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/eerie-look-inside-scene-one-9488907|title=Inside the hotel where five people died in one of Wales' worst ever mass murders|website=WalesOnline|date=22 June 2015|author=Nathan Bevan|access-date=31 December 2018}}</ref>
 *[[4 October]] - The [[InterCity 125]] high speed train runs for the first time between [[Swansea railway station]] and [[London Paddington railway station|London Paddington]].
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 ====Welsh language====
 *[[John Emyr]] - ''Enaid Clwyfus''<ref>{{cite book|title=National Union Catalog|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1OM8AQAAIAAJ|year=1973|publisher=Rowman and Littlefield|page=467}}</ref>
-*[[Alan Llwyd]] - ''Edrych Trwy Wydrau Lledrith''
 *[[Alun Llywelyn-Williams]] - ''Gwanwyn yn y Ddinas''
 *[[Owain Owain]] - ''Y Dydd Olaf''
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 ===Welsh-language television===
+*''Seren Wib'', presented by Emyr Glasnant and Sharon Morgan<ref>{{cite book|author=Sharon Morgan|title=Hanes Rhyw Gymraes.|publisher=Y Lolfa|language=cy|year=2012}}</ref>
-*
 ===Welsh language radio===
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 ===English-language television===
+*''How Green Was My Father: a Welsh Odyssey for 1976'', with [[Ryan Davies]] and [[Max Boyce]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00jfhsz|title=How Green was my Father|access-date=17 September 2023|website=BBC|date=27 July 2011 }}</ref>
-*''How Green Was My Father'', with [[Ryan Davies]]
 ==Sport==
 *[[Association football|Football]] – The [[Wales national football team]] plays in the quarter-finals of [[UEFA Euro 1976]].
-*[[BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year]] – [[Mervyn Davies ]] and the [[Wales national rugby union team]].<ref>{{cite web |title=BBC Wales Sport Personality winners |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20670643 |website=BBC Sport |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>
+*[[BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year]] – [[Mervyn Davies (rugby union)|Mervyn Davies]] and the [[Wales national rugby union team]].<ref>{{cite news |title=BBC Wales Sport Personality winners |work=BBC Sport |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/wales/20670643 |access-date=29 July 2021}}</ref>
 *[[Rugby union]] – [[Wales national rugby union team|Wales]] win their seventh [[Grand Slam (rugby union)|Grand Slam]].
 *[[Snooker]]
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 *[[26 March]] - [[Duster Bennett]], blues musician, 29 (car accident)<ref>{{cite book|author=Nick Talevski|title=The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=beMTAQAAIAAJ|year=1999|publisher=Omnibus|isbn=978-0-7119-7548-4|page=24}}</ref>
 *[[30 March]] - [[Jackie Mittell]], footballer, 70
-*[[31 March]] - [[Billy Moore (rugby)|Billy Moore]], rugby player, 66
+*[[31 March]] - [[Billy Moore (rugby, born 1910)|Billy Moore]], rugby player, 66
 *[[18 April]] – [[Haydn Davies (politician)|Haydn Davies]], politician, 70<ref>{{cite book|title=Who was who|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HT4OAQAAMAAJ|year=1971|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-87746-0|page=199}}</ref>
 *[[28 April]] – [[Richard Hughes (writer)|Richard Hughes]], novelist, 76<ref>{{cite book|title=Twentieth-century Children's Writers|publisher=Macmillan Education UK|year=1978|isbn=9781349036486|page=624}}</ref>
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 [[Category:1976 by country|Wales]]
 [[Category:1976 in the United Kingdom| Wales]]
+[[Category:1976 in Europe]]
+[[Category:1970s in Wales]]

Latest revision as of 16:07, 25 September 2024

Incumbents

Events

Arts and literature

Awards

New books

English language

Welsh language

Poetry

New drama

Music

Film

Welsh-language films

Broadcasting

Welsh-language television

Welsh language radio

English-language television

Sport

Births

Deaths

See also

References