See also 1932 in Wales, other events of 1933, 1934 in Wales and the list of years in Wales. Year 1933 (MCMXXXIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... See also 1933 in Wales, other events of 1934, 1935 in Wales and the list of years in Wales. ... This page indexes the individual year in Wales pages. ...

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Edward, Prince of Wales, son of King George V of the United Kingdom
• Princess of Wales - vacant
• Archbishop of Wales - Alfred George Edwards

The Prince of Wales Feathers. This Heraldic badge of the Heir Apparent is derived from the ostrich feathers borne by Edward, the Black Prince. ... Edward VIII (Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David Windsor; later The Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor; 23 June 1894 – 28 May 1972) was King of Great Britain, Ireland, the British Dominions beyond the Seas, and Emperor of India from the death of his father, George V (1910–36), on... George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 - 20 January 1936) was the first British monarch belonging to the House of Windsor, as a result of his creating it from the British branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. ... Camilla Mountbatten-Windsor, the current Princess of Wales. ... The Province of Wales in the Anglican Communion was created in 1920, as the Church in Wales, independent from the Church of England (of which the four Welsh dioceses had previously been part). ... Alfred George Edwards (1848-1937) was elected the first Archbishop of the disestablished Church in Wales. ...

Events

• Seven men and four women receive custodial sentences after a riot at Bedwas.
• July 22 - Amy Johnson and Jim Mollison take off from Pendine on the first non-stop flight from the UK to the USA.

Bedwas is a village 2 miles north-east of Caerphilly, south Wales, and situated in the Caerphilly borough. ... July 22 is the 203rd day (204th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 162 days remaining. ... Amy Johnson in Kalgoorlie, Western Australia, July 1930. ... James Allan (Jim) Mollison (1905-1959) was a famous Scottish pioneer airplane pilot. ... Pendine (Welsh: Pentywyn) is a village in Carmarthenshire, Wales, lying on Carmarthen Bay. ...

Arts and literature

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Wrexham)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Edgar Phillips
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Simon B. Jones

The Eisteddfod (from Welsh eistedd, to sit; plural is eisteddfodau) is a Welsh festival of literature, music, and song. ... Wrexham (Welsh: Wrecsam) is an industrial town in north-east Wales, close to the English border with Cheshire. ...

New books

Music

Film

Broadcasting

• The first broadcast is made from the Urdd Eisteddfod.

Sports

Births

• February 7 - Stuart Burrows, opera singer
• March 21 - Michael Heseltine, politician
• May 14 - Siân Phillips, actress
• November 12 - Jeffrey Thomas, politician
• date unknown
  • Bedwyr Lewis Jones, writer
  • Gwilym Jenkins, statistician

February 7 is the 38th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Stuart Burrows is a Welsh operatic tenor. ... March 21 is the 80th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (81st in leap years). ... Michael Heseltine walks out of the cabinet meeting having resigned, January 9, 1986 Michael Ray Dibdin Heseltine, Baron Heseltine, CH, PC (born 21 March 1933) is a British Conservative politician and businessman. ... May 14 is the 134th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (135th in leap years). ... Siân Phillips (born May 14, 1934) CBE, is a British actress. ... November 12 is the 316th day of the year (317th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 49 days remaining. ... Bedwyr Lewis Jones (1933 - 1992) was a Welsh scholar, literary critic and linguist, born in Wrexham, Denbighshire but raised in Llaneilian on Ynys Môn, north Wales. ... Gwilym Meirion Jenkins (1933-82) was a British statistician. ...

Deaths

• August 10 - Alf Morgans, Prime Minister of Western Australia
• November 10 - Herbert Lewis, politician
• date unknown
  • Sir James Cory, politician (baronet)
  • Sir Robert Jones, orthopaedic surgeon (baronet)
  • Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer
  • John Thomas, chemist (ICI)
  • John Tudor Walters, politician