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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1921 to Wales and its people.
[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Events
- February - Ernest Evans becomes Liberal MP for Cardiganshire, winning the seat vacated by Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, on the latter's elevation to the peerage.
- December - Leslie Morris becomes a founder member of the Communist Party of Canada.
- 23 December - The Maid of Delos sinks off the coast of Dyfed, with 26 deaths.
- The Anglo-Persian Oil Company Limited begins work on the UK's first oil refinery at Llandarcy.
- Hugh Robert Jones founds the Byddin Ymreolaeth Cymru (“Home Rule Army”), which forms the basis for the development of Plaid Cymru.
- Cardiologist Thomas Lewis is knighted.
- John Bodvan Anwyl is appointed secretary of the Welsh dictionary project sponsored by the Board of Celtic Studies of the University of Wales.
- A. J. Cook is sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for "inciting to unlawful assembly".
- Francis Edward Mostyn becomes Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff.
[edit] Arts and literature
[edit] Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Robert John Rowlands
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Albert Evans-Jones
[edit] New books
[edit] New drama
- Ivor Novello & Peter Dion Titheradge -"And Her Mother Came Too"
[edit] Broadcasting
- Cricket - Glamorgan was admitted to the County Championship competition for the first time.
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- 11 February - William Evans (Tonyrefail), minister and author, 82
- 25 February - John Thomas of Llanwrtyd, composer, 81
- 6 July - Alfred Onions, politician
- 5 August - Sir David Brynmor Jones, QC, politician, 70?
- 27 July
- 23 August - Francis Jayne, bishop and academic, 76
- 16 December - Owen Morgan, journalist, 85?