1920 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1920 to Wales and its people.

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21 January - Grant of the royal charter founding the University of Wales, Swansea.
31 March - The Welsh Church Act 1914 comes into force, resulting in the creation of the Church in Wales after disestablishment, and appointment of the first Archbishop of Wales. The new diocese of Monmouth is created.
September - Report of the departmental committee on the organisation of secondary education in Wales, chaired by William Napier Bruce.
November - In a notorious murder trial at Carmarthen, solicitor Harold Greenwood is found not guilty of poisoning his wife.
3 December - Five crew members from the Rhoscolyn lifeboat are lost off Llanddwyn, Anglesey.
21 December - Rhondda West by-election, 1920: William John retains the seat for Labour after the resignation of William Abraham.
Mortimer Wheeler becomes Director of the National Museum of Wales.
More people are employed in the coal industry in Wales in this year than ever before or since.
Opening of the Queen's Dock in Swansea.
Explorer Edgeworth David and civil servant George Lewis Barstow are knighted.
Hugh Evan-Thomas becomes an admiral.
Sale of the Downing Hall estate at Whitford, the former home of Thomas Pennant.

Edward Tegla Davies becomes editor of Y Winllan.
Ifan ab Owen Edwards becomes editor of the children’s paper, Cymru’r Plant, originally launched by his father Owen Morgan Edwards.
Controversy arises when T. H. Parry-Williams is appointed to the new Chair of Welsh Language at the University of Wales.
Margaret Haig Thomas launches the periodical Time and Tide.

Evan Thomas Davies becomes the first director of music at University of Wales, Bangor.
Margaret Hughes sings at the Aeolian Hall under her stage name of "Leila Megane".

March 22 - A full duplex commercial service begins operating from the Towyn radio receiving station, and C. S. Franklin develops an improved anti-interference antenna design.

Rugby Union
- 17 February - Wales beat France 6–5 at the Stade Colombes in Paris

16 January - Walley Barnes, footballer (d. 1975)
5 May - Sir Glanmor Williams, historian (died 2006)
13 May - Gareth Morris, flautist, brother of Jan Morris
7 September - Harri Webb, poet (died 1994)
8 October - Frank Herbert, science fiction novelist of Welsh ancestry (died 1986)
31 October - Dick Francis, jockey and crime novelist
10 November - Peter Philp, antiques expert and dramatist
11 November - Roy Jenkins, politician (died 2003)
18 December - Merlyn Rees, politician (died 2006)
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- Menna Gallie, novelist and translator (died 1990)