1933 in Wales

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• Archbishop of Wales – Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph{{cite DWB|id=s-EDWA-GEO-1848|title=Edwards, Alfred George (1848-1937), first archbishop of Wales|author=Thomas Iorwerth Ellis|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=15 October 2021}}
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Gwili{{Cite DWB |id=s-JENK-GWI-1872 |title=Jenkins, John (Gwili) (1872-1936), poet, theologian, and man of letters |author=Robert Thomas Jenkins |date=1959 |access-date=2 November 2021}}

• 1 March (Saint David's Day) – A flag displaying the red Welsh Dragon flies officially alongside the Union Jack over Caernarfon Castle.{{cite book|first=T. Meirion|last=Hughes|title=Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time|location=Talybont|publisher=Y Lolfa|year=2014|isbn=978-1-847-71930-0|chapter=The Red Dragon Saga|pages=96–106}}
• 28 March - Rhondda East by-election: William Mainwaring retains the seat for Labour against Communist and Liberal opposition.{{cite book|author=Richard Baxell|title=British Volunteers in the Spanish Civil War: The British Battalion in the International Brigades, 1936–1939|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IoZNieR-nPgC&pg=PT37|date=31 July 2004|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-134-34576-2|pages=37}}
• 18 April - 28 people are injured at Cockett railway station when a locomotive travelling from {{stnlnk|Swansea}} to {{stnlnk|Neyland}} collides with the rear of the stationary 11.55 am {{stnlnk|Paddington}} to {{stnlnk|Milford Haven}} train.{{cite web|url=http://www.railwaysarchive.co.uk/docsummary.php?docID=1645|title=Report on the Accident at Cockett on 18th April 1933|website=Railways Archive|access-date=29 April 2019}}
• June/July – Seven men and four women receive custodial sentences after a riot at Bedwas over strikebreaking.
• 22 July – Amy Johnson and Jim Mollison take off from Pendine on the first non-stop aeroplane flight from Great Britain to the United States.{{cite book|author1=Carl B. Allen|author2=Lauren Dwight Lyman|title=The Wonder Book of the Air|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KJENAQAAIAAJ|year=1941|publisher=John C. Winston Company|page=333}}
• Ronald Lockley establishes the first British bird observatory on Skokholm.{{cite book|title=British Wildlife|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SD8iAQAAMAAJ|year=1999|publisher=British Wildlife Pub.}}

• April–May – Dylan Thomas's poem And death shall have no dominion is written and published.In New English Weekly. {{cite book|first=Paul|last=Ferris|author-link=Paul Ferris (Welsh writer)|title=Dylan Thomas: A Biography|location=New York|publisher=Paragon House|year=1989|isbn=1-55778-215-6|page=83}}
• June - The first Gregynog Music Festival, Wales' oldest extant classical music festival, is organised by the sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies (granddaughters of Victorian industrialist David Davies) at their home, Gregynog Hall in Tregynon, Montgomeryshire.
• Percy Cudlipp becomes editor of the Evening Standard – the youngest ever editor of a British national newspaper.

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Wrexham)
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Edgar Phillips{{cite book|author=National Library of Wales|title=Annual Report|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OdJFAQAAIAAJ|year=1981|page=45}}
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Simon B. Jones{{cite web|url=https://www.peoplescollection.wales/content/national-eisteddfods-competitions-1933-and-2011|title=The National Eisteddfod's Competitions 1933 and 2011|website=People's Collection Wales|access-date=18 October 2018}}

• D. J. Davies – The Economic History of South Wales
• A. H. Dodd – The Industrial Revolution in North Wales
• Caradoc Evans – Wasps{{cite book|author=Library of Congress. Copyright Office|title=Catalog of Copyright Entries. New Series: 1933|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cqIhAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA1083|year=1934|publisher=Library of Congress|pages=1083}}
• Margiad Evans – The Wooden Doctor{{cite book|author1=Kirsti Bohata|author2=Katie Gramich|title=Rediscovering Margiad Evans: Marginality, Gender and Illness|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6VyuBwAAQBAJ&pg=PT43|date=15 February 2013|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-2689-3|pages=43}}
• Lily Tobias - Eunice Fleet

• John Bodvan Anwyl - Fy hanes i fy hunan{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-ANWY-BOD-1875|title=Anwyl, John Bodvan (1875–1940), minister (Congl.), lexicographer, and author|author=Thomas Herbert Parry-Williams|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=8 November 2019}}
• Gwilym Owen – Rhyfeddodau'r Cread{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s1-OWEN-GWI-1880|title=Owen, Gwilym (1880–1940), physicist|author=Edwin Augustine Owen|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=8 November 2019}}
• Isaac Morris – Proffwydi'r Wythfed Ganrif Cyn Crist{{cite book|title=Bibliotheca Celtica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=w_04AQAAIAAJ|year=1939|publisher=The Library|page=17}}

• Ieuan Rees-Davies – Transposition at the keyboard (manual){{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s2-REES-IEU-1894|title=REES-DAVIES, IEUAN (1894–1967), musician and author|author=Rhidian Griffiths|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=18 June 2018}}

• Ivor Novello stars in I Lived with You, Sleeping Car, and Autumn Crocus.{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/28373|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071129012252/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/28373|url-status=dead|archive-date=2007-11-29|title=Autumn Crocus|work=BFI}}

• 28 May – The BBC begins broadcasting the Welsh Regional Programme to South Wales from the Washford transmitter
• 17 July – The BBC begins broadcasting the National Programme to South Wales from the Washford transmitter
• The first broadcast is made from the Urdd Eisteddfod.

• Rugby union, although collecting the 'wooden spoon' in the Home Nations Championship, Wales beat England at Twickenham for the very first time, after ten previous attempts.

• 2 January – Keith Thomas, early modern historian and academic
• 7 February – Stuart Burrows, opera singer
• 21 March – Michael Heseltine, politician
• 3 April – Alan Watkins, political journalist (d. 2010){{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2010/may/09/alan-watkins-obituary|title=Alan Watkins obituary|date=9 May 2010|author=Michael White|website=The Guardian|access-date=9 August 2019}}
• 22 April – Anthony Llewellyn, Welsh-American scientist (d. 2013)
• 14 May – Siân Phillips, actress
• 20 June
• Dai Dower, British, European and Empire flyweight boxing champion
• Dorothy Simpson, detective fiction writer
• 30 June – John Faull, Wales international and British Lions rugby player
• 17 August – Jack Hurrell, Wales international rugby union player (d. 2003){{cite web|title=Former Internationals Pass Away| url=http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/news/9596.php#.VokZGF69TIU|accessdate=3 January 2016|work=wru.co.uk|date=25 June 2003}}
• 1 September – Bedwyr Lewis Jones, writer and scholar (d. 1992){{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-bedwyr-lewis-jones-1548641.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-professor-bedwyr-lewis-jones-1548641.html |archive-date=1 May 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Professor Bedwyr Lewis Jones|author=D. Ben Rees|author-link=D. Ben Rees|website=The Independent|accessdate=9 August 2019|date=1 September 1992}}{{cbignore}}
• 12 September – Len Allchurch, footballer (d. 2016)
• 24 September – Terry Davies, Wales rugby captain and British Lion (d. 2021)
• 25 September – David Parry-Jones, rugby commentator (d. 2017){{cite web|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2017/05/15/david-parry-jones-great-welsh-broadcaster-obituary/|title=David Parry-Jones, great Welsh broadcaster – obituary|date=15 May 2017|website=The Telegraph|access-date=9 August 2019}}
• 12 November – Jeffrey Thomas, politician (d. 1989)
• 17 November – Alan Harrington, footballer (d. 2019)
• 28 November – Noel Trigg, light heavyweight boxer
• 31 December – Glyn Davidge, Wales international and British Lions rugby player

• 8 January – Sir John Ballinger, librarian, 72{{cite book|title=Cylchgrawn Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru: The National Library of Wales Journal|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yWMaAAAAMAAJ|year=1940|publisher=Council of the National Library of Wales|page=25}}
• 14 January – Sir Robert Jones, orthopaedic surgeon (baronet), 75
• 18 January – John Thomas, chemist (ICI), 46{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-THOM-JOH-1886|title=THOMAS, JOHN (1886–1933), chemist|author=Thomas Campbell James|website=Dictionary of Welsh Biography|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=18 June 2018}}
• 2 February – Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, politician, 76{{cite web|url=https://biography.wales/article/s-CORY-SON-1850|title=Sir JAMES HERBERT CORY (1857–1933), 1st baronet|author=Watkin William Price|website=Welsh Biography Online|publisher=National Library of Wales|access-date=18 October 2018}}
• 15 February – Jere Blake, Wales international rugby player, 47/48{{cite web|url=http://www.cardiffrfc.com/Teams/Player?personid=100794|title=John Blake|website=Cardiff RFC|access-date=18 June 2018}}
• 23 February – David Watts Morgan, Member of Parliament for Rhondda East, 65{{cite book|author1=Michael Stenton|author2=Stephen Lees|title=Who's who of British members of parliament: a biographical dictionary of the House of Commons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eQcWAQAAIAAJ|year=1981|publisher=Harvester Press|page=250}}
• 4 April – Sir Marteine Lloyd, 2nd Baronet, 82
• 29 May – Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer, 84
• 16 July – John Tudor Walters, politician, 64/65
• 10 August – Alf Morgans, Prime Minister of Western Australia, 83
• 13 September – David Morgan, Wales international rugby player, 61
• 20 September – Alfred Cattell, Wales international rugby player, 76
• 17 October – Sid Bevan, Wales international rugby union player, 56
• 18 October – Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen, soldier and politician, 82
• 10 November – Herbert Lewis, politician, 74

• 1933 in Northern Ireland

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