1993 in Wales

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• Secretary of State for Wales – David Hunt (until 27 May);{{cite web|url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/994/career|title=Lord Hunt of Wirral|website=UK Parliament|access-date=31 May 2022}} John Redwood{{cite book|author=J. Graham Jones|title=The History of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4p3ZWsc63IsC|date=January 1998|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1491-3|page=157}}
• Archbishop of Wales – Alwyn Rice Jones, Bishop of St Asaph{{cite web |url=http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2866732.ece |title=The Right Rev Alwyn Rice Jones |work=The Independent |date=16 August 2007 |author=Barry Morgan |access-date=31 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071001000228/http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2866732.ece |archive-date=1 October 2007 |url-status=dead}}
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – John Gwilym Jones{{Cite ODNB|first=Gwyn |last=Thomas |author-link=Gwyn Thomas (poet) |year=2004 |id=61278 |title=Jones, John Gwilym }}

• 13 January - Wayne Edwards from Cefn Mawr is the first British soldier killed in the Bosnian War.{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-15237846|title=Bosnia bridge renamed to honour soldier Wayne Edwards|

date=10 October 2011|website=BBC News|access-date=1 June 2022}}

• April – Childline Wales is launched by George Thomas, Viscount Tonypandy.
• 11 June
• Five hundred homes in Llandudno are damaged by flash floods, and 2500 people are evacuated.{{cite book|author1=David Crichton|author2=Fergus Nicol|author3=Sue Roaf|title=Adapting Buildings and Cities for Climate Change|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Rs0O349VaVcC&pg=PA77|date=26 October 2009|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-136-44455-5|pages=77}}
• Welsh-born Dr John Savage becomes prime minister of Nova Scotia.
• John Redwood, recently appointed Secretary of State for Wales, attracts ridicule after being filmed attempting to mime to the Welsh national anthem at the Welsh Conservative Party conference, when he clearly did not know the words.Lauren Niland. [https://www.theguardian.com/world/blog/2011/nov/10/rick-perry-when-politicians-forget "Rick Perry's predecessors: when politicians forget"]. The Guardian. Retrieved on 23 November 2015.
• 20 August - Closure of the Royal Navy Propellant Factory, Caerwent.
• 21 October - The Welsh Language Act receives Royal Assent, placing Welsh on an equal footing with English within the public sector in Wales.{{Cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1993/38/contents/data.htm|title=Welsh Language Act 1993|website=www.legislation.gov.uk}}
• 31 December – Terry Yorath is sacked after five years as manager of the Wales national football team.{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/24927562|title=Terry Yorath: Former Wales manager's Romania '93 memories|work=BBC Sport |date=November 14, 2013}}
• The University of Wales celebrates its centenary.
• The government announces the privatisation of DVOIT, the former IT arm of the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency, Swansea's biggest employer. DVLA contracts for the provision of IT services are let to EDS.
• Laura Tenison sets up the maternity and babywear retailer JoJo Maman Bébé in Newport.{{cite web|title=Our Story|url=http://www.jojomamanbebe.co.uk/pu+Our-Story+Our-Story+1|publisher=JoJo Maman Bébé|accessdate=2011-04-09}}

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Llanelwedd)
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – Meirion MacIntyre Huws, "Gwawr"{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair|title=Winners of the Chair|website=National Eisteddfod|access-date=17 March 2019|archive-date=29 September 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190929131826/https://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/winners-chair|url-status=dead}}
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Eirwyn George{{cite web|url=https://eisteddfod.wales/about-us/eisteddfod-winners/crown-winners|title=Winners of the Crown|website=National Eisteddfod|access-date=17 March 2019}}{{Dead link|date=July 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Mihangel Morgan, Dirgel Ddyn
• Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen – Endaf Jones, Mewn Cornel Fechan Fach{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/cymru/eisteddfod/2010/safle/canllaw/gwybodaeth/tudalen/eisteddfodau_gorffennol_gwobrgoffa.shtml|title=Enillwyr Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen|language=cy|website=BBC Cymru|access-date=24 November 2019}}
• Wales Book of the Year:
• English language: Robert Minhinnick – Watching the Fire Eater{{cite book|author1=James Persoon|author2=Robert R. Watson|title=Encyclopedia of British Poetry, 1900 to the Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KJ1bAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT875|date=22 April 2015|publisher=Infobase Learning|isbn=978-1-4381-4074-2|pages=875}}
• Welsh language: Robin Llywelyn – Seren Wen ar Gefndir Gwyn{{cite book|title=International Who's who of Authors and Writers|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7bYRAQAAMAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Europa Publications, Taylor & Francis Group|page=447| isbn=9781857434286 }}

• Thomas Charles-Edwards – Early Irish and Welsh Kinship{{cite book|author1=T. M. Charles-Edwards|author2=T.M.. Charles-Edwards|title=Early Irish and Welsh Kinship|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-RdPNWFJJMcC|year=1993|publisher=Clarendon Press|isbn=978-0-19-820103-8}}
• Gillian Clarke – The King of Britain's Daughter{{cite book|author=Gillian Clarke|title=The King of Britain's Daughter|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TCYgAQAAIAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Carcanet|isbn=978-1-85754-031-4}}
• Janet Davies – The Welsh Language
• John Davies – A History of Wales
• Glenys Kinnock & Fiona Millar – By Faith and Daring{{cite book|author1=Lesley Abbott|author2=Dr Helen Moylett|author3=Helen Moylett|title=Early Education Transformed|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JNuRAgAAQBAJ&pg=PR14|date=1 November 2002|publisher=Routledge|isbn=1-135-70862-2|pages=14}}
• Saunders Lewis – Selected Poems
• Phil Rickman – Crybbe{{cite book|author=Phil Rickman|title=Crybbe|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iOQUAAAACAAJ|year=1993|publisher=Pan|isbn=978-0-330-32893-7}}

• Geraint Bowen – O Groth y Ddaear (autobiography){{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=The new companion to the literature of Wales|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WoMYAAAAIAAJ|date=23 September 1998|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1383-1|page=64}}
• Moses Glyn Jones – Y Dewin a cherddi eraill{{cite book|title=Bibliotheca Celtica|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h6AmAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=The Library|page=29}}
• Mihangel Morgan - Saith Pechod Marwol{{cite book|author=Meic Stephens|title=Cydymaith i lenyddiaeth Cymru|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WoMYAAAAIAAJ|year=1998|publisher=University of Wales Press|isbn=978-0-7083-1383-1|page=508}}

• Psychedelic rock band Super Furry Animals is formed in Cardiff.
• The Hennessys – Caneuon Cynnar
• Siân James – Distaw
• Michael Jones – Rouge
• John Pickard – String Quartet no. 2
• Meic Stevens – Er Cof Am Blant Y Cwm (album)

• Anthony Hopkins plays C. S. Lewis in the film version of Shadowlands.

• Tân ar y Comin

• 1 January – S4C becomes responsible for selling its own advertising air time.
• 16 December – Tim Vincent becomes Blue Peter's first Welsh presenter.

• Dafydd
• Delweddau Zimbabwe, presented by Iwan Bala{{cite web|url=https://www.ylolfa.com/authors/1214/iwan-bala|title=Iwan Bala|website=Y Lolfa|access-date=15 February 2022|language=cy}}

• Paul Rhys and Michael Sheen star in Gallowglass.
• The Slate (arts programme)[https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00fffqn/episodes/guide BBC One – The Slate]. Accessed 30 July 2013

• BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Colin Jackson{{cite news |title=BBC Wales Sport Personality winners |work=BBC Sport |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/wales/20670643 |access-date=2 August 2021}}
• Football – The Wales national football team achieves its highest ever FIFA ranking (27).
• Golf – Wales wins the European Amateur Men's Team Championship in the Czech Republic.
• Rowing – The Celtic Challenge becomes a regular (biennial) event.

• 22 January
• Ben Lake, Plaid Cymru, MP
• Tom Price, rugby player
• 13 February – Sophie Evans, singer and actress
• 1 March – Gwion Edwards, footballer{{cite web|title=Premier League Clubs submit Squad Lists|url=http://www.premierleague.com/content/dam/premierleague/site-content/News/publications/squad-lists/Squad-Lists-September-2012.pdf|publisher=Premier League|accessdate=3 February 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130310203125/http://www.premierleague.com/content/dam/premierleague/site-content/News/publications/squad-lists/Squad-Lists-September-2012.pdf|archivedate=10 March 2013|df=dmy-all}}
• 10 March – Tom Davies, rugby player
• 21 March – Jade Jones, taekwondo competitor{{cite web|url=http://www.gbtaekwondo.co.uk/athlete/jade-jones/|title=About Jade|website=GB Taekwondo|access-date=5 April 2019}}
• 4 April – Cerys Hale, rugby player{{cite web |title=Cerys Hale |url=https://www.wru.wales/women/cerys-hale/ |website=Welsh Rugby Union {{!}} Wales & Regions |accessdate=18 November 2019}}
• 24 April – Ben Davies, footballer
• 2 May – Owain Doull, cyclist{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/owain-doull|title=Owain Doull|website=IOC|access-date=8 December 2020}}
• 5 May – Rhodri Williams, rugby player
• 26 June – Jodie Grinham, Paralympic archer{{cite web |title=Jodie Grinham {{!}}{{!}} PARIS 2024 |url=https://paris2024.disabilitysportwales.com/athletes/jodie_grinham |website=Disability Sport Wales |access-date=28 August 2024}}
• 29 June – Jak Jones, snooker player
• 2 August – Gareth Thomas, rugby player
• 20 September – Jordan Williams, rugby player
• 6 October – Sam Davies, rugby player
• 3 November – Josh Griffiths, marathon runner{{cite web |title=Joshua GRIFFITHS {{!}} Profile |url=https://www.worldathletics.org/athletes/_/14481607 |publisher=World Athletics | access-date=2 May 2022}}
• 24 November – Chelsea Lewis, netball player{{cite web |url=https://results.gc2018.com/en/netball/athlete-profile-n6027859-chelsea-lewis.htm |title=Netball {{!}} Athlete Profile: Chelsea LEWIS |publisher=Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games Corporation | year=2018 |access-date=2 May 2022}}
• 26 November – Rhodri Hughes, rugby player{{cite web |title=Rhodri Hughes |publisher=Ospreys Rugby | url=https://www.ospreysrugby.com/Teams/Ospreys/Player/150826 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160830215615/https://www.ospreysrugby.com/Teams/Ospreys/Player/150826 |archive-date=30 August 2016 |access-date=2 May 2022}}
• 27 November – Sion Bennett, rugby player{{cite web |title=Wales U20 Squad : Squad Profiles |url=http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/matchcentre/squads_wales_u20.php?player=89921&includeref=dynamic |website=Welsh Rugby Union | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411072106/http://www.wru.co.uk/eng/matchcentre/squads_wales_u20.php?player=89921&includeref=dynamic |archive-date=11 April 2016 |access-date=2 May 2022}}
• 31 December – Dave Richards, footballer{{cite web |url=https://www.crewealex.net/teams/first-team/goalkeeper/dave-richards/ |title=Dave Richards - Goalkeeper - First Team |website=Crewe Alexandra | access-date=19 October 2021}}

• 30 January – Dorothy Miles, poet and deaf activist, 61 (suicide){{cite web |last=Sutton-Spence |first=Rachel |title=Dorothy Miles |url=http://www.let.ru.nl/sign-lang/echo/docs/Dorothy%20Miles.pdf |work=European Cultural Heritage Online (ECHO) |accessdate=7 August 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20111002151727/http://www.let.ru.nl/sign-lang/echo/docs/Dorothy%20Miles.pdf |archivedate=2 October 2011}}
• 27 January – R. H. Williams, rugby player, 62
• 10 March – Bill Price, physicist, 83{{Cite journal | last1 = Dixon | first1 = R. N. | authorlink1 = Richard Dixon (scientist)| last2 = Agar | first2 = D. M. | last3 = Burge | first3 = R. E. | title = William Charles Price 1 April 1909--10 March 1993: Elected F.R.S. 1959 | doi = 10.1098/rsbm.1997.0023 | journal = Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society | volume = 43 | pages = 431 | year = 1997| doi-access = free }}
• 7 April – Terry Price, rugby player, 47{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-terry-price-1454267.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-terry-price-1454267.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Terry Price|website=The Independent|date=8 April 1993|author=Barrie Fairall|access-date=15 February 2022}}{{cbignore}}
• 21 April – Lyn Thomas, footballer, 72
• 23 April – Daniel Jones, composer, 80{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-daniel-jones-1457920.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-daniel-jones-1457920.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | title=Obituary: Daniel Jones | first=Geraint | last=Lewis | newspaper=The Independent | date=28 April 1993 | accessdate=4 August 2014 }}{{cbignore}}
• 21 May – Cliff Tucker, politician and benefactor of the University of Wales, Lampeter, 80
• 27 May
• Dennis Powell, boxer, 68
• Trevor Thomas, art historian, 85{{cite web | access-date=11 October 2019 | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-trevor-thomas-1483804.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-trevor-thomas-1483804.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live | title=Obituary: Trevor Thomas | date=9 July 1993 | author=Stuart, Robert | website=The Independent}}{{cbignore}}
• 30 May – Mel Rees, footballer, 26{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-rees-loses-fight-against-cancer-1489088.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football-rees-loses-fight-against-cancer-1489088.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Rees loses fight against cancer|newspaper=The Independent | location=London|date=1 June 1993|accessdate=25 April 2010}}{{cbignore}}
• 29 July – Gwilym R. Jones, editor and poet, 90{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-gwilym-r-jones-1461473.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-gwilym-r-jones-1461473.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Gwilym R. Jones|date= 16 August 1993|author=D. Ben Rees|website=Independent|access-date=8 December 2020}}{{cbignore}}
• 20 August – Iorwerth Hughes, Wales football international goalkeeper, 68{{hugman|id=9599|name=Iorrie Hughes|access-date=28 September 2016}}
• 4 September – Haydn Davies, cricketer, 81
• 2 October – John James, historical novelist, 69{{cite book|author1=John James|author2=Caitlín Matthews|author3=John Matthews|title=The Fourth Gwenevere|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MKNhBQAAQBAJ&pg=PT8|date=7 August 2014|publisher=Quercus|isbn=978-1-84866-414-2|pages=8}}
• October – Ivor Griffiths, footballer, 75
• 17 November – Gordon Richards, footballer, 60
• 30 November – Wogan Philipps, 2nd Baron Milford, politician, 91{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-milford-1465048.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-lord-milford-1465048.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Lord Milford|date=3 December 1993|author=Sally Belfrage|website=The Independent|access-date=4 October 2019}}{{cbignore}}
• 1 December – Lynette Davies, actress, 45[https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/actress-dies-1466985.html Actress dies] in The Independent on Sunday dated 12 December 1993: "LYNETTE DAVIES, who starred as Davinia Prince in the 1970s TV series The Foundation, was found drowned at Lavernock Point, near Penarth, South Glamorgan."
• 4 December – Roy Vernon, footballer, 56
• 10 December – Roland Davies, comic book artist and animator, 89{{cite news |last1=Gifford |first1=Denis |title=Obituary: Roland Davies |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-roland-davies-1467688.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-roland-davies-1467688.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=The Independent |issue=16 December 1993 |date=1993 |language=en}}{{cbignore}}
• 13 December – Francis Jones, herald, 85{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-major-francis-jones-1469346.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220501/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-major-francis-jones-1469346.html |archive-date=2022-05-01 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title=Obituary: Major Francis Jones|date=24 December 1993|author=Thomas Lloyd|website=The Independent|access-date=4 October 2019}}{{cbignore}}
• 19 December – Owain Owain, novelist, short story writer and poet, 64{{cite web|url=https://cyngortrefpwllheli.cymru/en/tourism/celebrities/owain-owain|language=cy|title=Owain Owain - Gwyddonydd, Addysgwr, Arloeswr|website=Cyngor Tref Pwllheli|access-date=23 August 2024}}
• date unknown
• T. Rees Thomas, Congregationalist minister, 82/3
• Rheinallt Nantlais Williams, philosopher of religion and college principal, 81/2

• 1993 in Northern Ireland

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