See also 1939 in Wales, other events of 1940, 1941 in Wales and the list of years in Wales. 1940 (MCMXL) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1940 calendar). ... See also 1940 in Wales, other events of 1941, 1942 in Wales and the list of years in Wales. ... This page indexes the individual year in Wales pages. ...

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - vacant
• Princess of Wales - vacant
• Archbishop of Wales - Charles Alfred Howell Green

The Prince of Wales Feathers. This Heraldic badge of the Heir Apparent is derived from the ostrich feathers borne by Edward, the Black Prince. ... 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). ...

Events

• The Urdd changes its policy to include 16 to 25-year-olds.
• January 27 - A freak ice storm brings down telephone and electricity lines in many parts of Wales.
• March 3 - The steamer Cato is damaged by a mine off Nash Point and 13 of the crew are killed.
• May 8 - Three German Heinkel 111s crash in separate incidents over Wales: one near Wrexham, one at Malpas in Denbighshire, and one at Bagillt, Flint. In all nine crew are killed and four captured.
• July 10 - Ten people are killed in an air raid on Swansea Docks.
• August 11 - Seventeen people are killed in an air raid on Manselton, Swansea.
• August 14 - Three German Heinkel 111s are shot down during an air-raid on Cardiff, and another over North Wales after a raid on RAF Hawarden.
• August 22 - A steamer, the Thorold, is sunk by German aircraft off the Skerries. Ten crew are killed.
• September 2 - 33 people are killed in an air raid on Swansea.
• September 3 - Eleven people are killed in an air raid on Cardiff.
• September 4 - A German Junkers 88 crashes near Machynlleth. Four crew and a Gestapo officer are captured.
• September 13 - A German Heinkel 111 crashes into a house in Newport, Monmouthshire.
• October 20 - Communist minister and poet Thomas Evan Nicholas ("Niclas y Glais") and his son are arrested and interned for "endeavouring to impede recruitment to HM Forces".
• Gwilym Owen Williams becomes chaplain of St David's College, Lampeter.

January 27 is the 27th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... March 3 is the 62nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (63rd in leap years). ... May 8 is the 128th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (129th in leap years). ... Wrexham (Welsh: Wrecsam) is an industrial town in north-east Wales, close to the English border with Cheshire. ... July 10 is the 191st day (192nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 174 days remaining. ... Swansea (Welsh: , mouth of the Tawe) is a city in Wales and a Welsh County. ... August 11 is the 223rd day of the year (224th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. ... Cardiff (English:  Welsh: ) is the capital of Wales and its largest city. ... August 22 is the 234th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (235th in leap years), with 131 days remaining. ... Skerries may refer to a number of geographical locations: In Ireland: The Gaelic translation of Skerries is Na Sceire which means sea rocks. Skerries, Dublin, a seaside town in north Dublin Skerries is a seaside town in north county Dublin. ... September 2 is the 245th day of the year (246th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... September 3 is the 246th day of the year (247th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... September 4 is the 247th day of the year (248th in leap years). ... Machynlleth is a market town in the traditional county of Montgomeryshire (Sir Drefaldwyn), north Powys in Wales. ... September 13 is the 256th day of the year (257th in leap years). ... For other uses of the name Newport, please see Newport, Rhode Island, Newport, Isle of Wight or Newport (disambiguation). ... October 20 is the 293rd day of the year (294th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 72 days remaining. ... Gwilym Owen Williams (March 23, 1913 - December 23, 1990) was Bishop of Bangor from 1957 to 1982 and Anglican Archbishop of Wales from 1971 to 1982. ... University of Wales, Lampeter Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan   University of Wales, Lampeter (Welsh: Prifysgol Cymru, Llanbedr Pont Steffan) is a university in Lampeter, Wales, the oldest degree awarding institution in Wales, and the third oldest in England and Wales after Oxford and Cambridge. ...

Arts and literature

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Bangor (radio))

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - withheld
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - T. Rowland Hughes
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld

Bangor, in north Wales, is one of the smallest cities in the United Kingdom. ...

New books

• John Cowper Powys - Owen Glendower
• Howard Spring - Fame is the Spur

John Cowper Powys (October 8, 1872 - June 17, 1963) was a British (English-Welsh) writer, lecturer, and philosopher. ... Howard Spring (1889-1965) was a Welsh author. ...

Music

Film

• Paul Robeson and Rachel Thomas star in The Proud Valley

USPS Black Heritage stamp of Paul Robeson. ... Rachel Thomas (February 10, 1905 - February 8, 1995), was a Welsh character actress, well-known to film and television audiences. ... Proud Valley, Wales, 1939, Ealing Studios Filmed on location in the heart of the coal mining region of Wales, Proud Valley documents the hard realities of Welsh coal miners’ lives. ...

Broadcasting

Sports

Births

• January 4 - Professor Brian Josephson
• January 17 - Leighton Rees, darts champion
• June 7 - Tom Jones
• December 24 - John Marek, politician

January 4 is the 4th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Brian David Josephson (born Cardiff, UK, January 4, 1940) is a British physicist whose discovery of the Josephson effect while a 22_year_old graduate student won him a share (with Leo Esaki and Ivar Giaever) of the 1973 Nobel Prize for Physics. ... January 17 is the 17th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Leighton Rees was born on January 17th, 1940 in the village of Ynysybwl, South Wales, United Kingdom where he was to spend most of his life. ... June 7 is the 158th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (159th in leap years), with 207 days remaining. ... Thomas Jones Woodward, OBE (born 7 June 1940), best known by his stage name, Tom Jones is a Welsh singer particularly noted for his powerful voice. ... December 24 is the 358th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (359th in leap years). ... Dr John Marek (born 24 December 1940), is the leader of the Welsh political party Forward Wales. ...

Deaths

• September 26 - W. H. Davies, poet and author
• date unknown - William Edwards, educationist
• date unknown - Henry Maldwyn Hughes, Wesleyan minister
• date unknown - Robert Thomas Jones, quarrymen’s leader
• date unknown - Gwilym Owen, physicist
• date unknown - Daniel Lleufer Thomas, lawyer and biographer