1924 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1924 to Wales and its people.

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January - Ramsay MacDonald, MP for Aberavon, becomes the first Labour Prime Minister of the UK.
26 April - Harry Grindell Matthews fails to convince the War Office of the efficacy of his new invention, the "death ray".
29 October - In the United Kingdom general election, 1924:
- The Welsh electorate is 1,289,924
- Of 36 Welsh MPs, eight are elected unopposed.
- MacDonald loses his position as Prime Minister
- Only one female candidate stands for election in Wales.
- Newly-elected MPs include Walter D'Arcy Hall (Brecon and Radnor), Henry Arthur Evans (Cardiff South), Alfred Mond (Carmarthen) and Walter Runciman (Swansea West).
- Ernest Evans defeats George Maitland Lloyd Davies to win the University of Wales seat for the Liberals.
Vernon Hartshorn becomes Postmaster-General.
Jimmy Thomas becomes Colonial Secretary.
David Ifon Jones becomes the only Welshman ever to be given a state funeral in the Soviet Union.

Claude Friese-Greene visits Cardiff, Chepstow and Raglan in the course of his drive from John O'Groats to Land's End.
A rare Handled Beaker is found during archaeological excavations at a Bronze Age burial cairn in the Black Mountains.

May - The BBC broadcasts the first in a series of 18 Welsh-language lessons.
31 July - Broadcast of extracts from Y Pwyllgor, a play by D. T. Davies.
12 December - The first transmission is made from the 5SX radio relay station in Swansea. The studio is opened by the Mayor of Swansea.

Football - 49-year-old Billy Meredith becomes the oldest man ever to play in an FA Cup semi-final.

9 February - George Guest, organist and choirmaster of St John's College, Cambridge (died 2002)
15 March - Tom Ellis, politician
4 April - Emrys Evans, banker (d. 2004)
7 June - Donald Watts Davies, computer scientist (d. 2000)
17 September - Islwyn Ffowc Elis, author
date unknown - Peter Halliday, actor

2 June - William Henry Griffith Thomas, influential clergyman
date unknown
- John Roberts (Pencerdd Gwynedd), organist and composer
- John Richard Williams (J. R. Tryfanwy), poet