1975 in Wales: Difference between revisions

Centuries:	18th; 19th; 20th; 21st; ;
Decades:	1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; Timeline of Welsh history 1975 in The United Kingdom Scotland Elsewhere

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

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 derails 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.

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

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 is World Professional Champion for the fourth time.

14 February - Arthur Probert, politician, 67
23 February - Ossie Male, rugby player, 81
3 March - T. H. Parry-Williams, poet, 87
20 April - Stephen Halden Beattie, recipient of the Victoria Cross, 67
23 April - Pete Ham, musician, leader of the group Badfinger (suicide), 27
21 May - A. H. Dodd, historian
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
6 November - Norman Riches, cricketer
date unknown
- Robert Herring, poet and critic, 72
- Alun Jones (Alun Cilie), poet
- Huw Lloyd Edwards, dramatist

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 ===New books===
+====English language====
-*[[Aneirin Talfan Davies]] - ''Diannerch Erchwyn a Cherddi Eraill''
-*[[J. Eirian Davies]] - ''Cân Galed''
-*[[T. Glynne Davies]] - ''Marged''
 *[[Gwynfor Evans]] - ''National Future for Wales''
 *[[Jeremy Hooker]] - ''Soliloquies of a Chalk Giant''
-*[[Richard Cyril Hughes]] - ''Catrin o Ferain''
 *[[Emyr Humphries]] - ''Flesh and Blood''
 *[[Richard Llewellyn]] - ''Green, Green, My Valley Now''
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 *[[Bernice Rubens]] - ''I Sent a Letter to My Love''
 *[[Peter Tinniswood]] - ''Except You're a Bird''
-*[[John G. Williams]] - ''Maes Mihangel''
 *[[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''
+*[[John G. Williams]] - ''Maes Mihangel''
 ===New drama===