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This article is about the particular significance of the year 1941 to Wales and its people.
[edit] Incumbents
[edit] Events
- 2 January - 165 people are killed in air raids on Cardiff.
- 13 February - Opening of RAF Valley in Anglesey.
- 14 February - Six people are killed in an air raid on Port Talbot.
- 17 January - 58 people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
- 20 January - Welsh press magnate William Ewart Berry is created Viscount Camrose.
- 17 February - Samuel James Leeke finds his Swansea home destroyed by an air raid.
- 19 February-21 - 240 people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
- 26 February - Four people are killed in an air raid on Cardiff.
- February - Six cattle are killed in an air raid on Cwmbran.
- 3 March - 51 people are killed in air raids at Cardiff and Penarth.
- 11 March - Three people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
- 21 March - The coaster Millisle is sunk by German planes off Caldey Island, killing ten crew.
- 27 March - The Michael Faraday, a cable-laying ship, is sunk by German planes off St Ann's Head in Pembrokeshire, killing 16 crew.
- 31 March - Three people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
- March - Co-developer Edward George Bowen is on board the first American experimental airborne 10cm radar.
- 12 April - Three people are killed in air raids on Swansea.
- 15 April - 12 people are killed in an air raid on RAF Carew Cheriton.
- 29 April - 26 people are killed in air raids at Rhondda, and a further seven in Cardiff.
- 8 May - Three German Heinkel 111s are shot down. Nine German crew members are killed, and the remaining three taken prisoner.
- 11 May - Three people are killed in an air raid on RAF Saint Athan.
- 12 May - 32 people are killed in an air raid on Pembroke Dock.
- 30 May - Major air raid on Newport.
- 1 June - A German Junkers 88 is shot down near Llandudno, killing four crew.
- 11 June - The Baron Carnegie, a cargo ship, is sunk by German planes off Strumble Head, killing 25 crew.
- 13 June - The ferry St Patrick is sunk by German planes off Strumble Head, killing 30 people.
- 1 July - 37 people are killed in an air raid on Newport, Monmouthshire.
- 5 July - Alun Lewis marries Gwenno Ellis.
- 11 July - In an accident at Rhigos Colliery in Glamorgan, 16 miners are killed.
- 28 July - An RAF Wellington bomber crashes into Garn Fadryn on the Lleyn peninsula, killing six crew.
- 7 August - An RAF Wellington bomber crashes into Rhosfach in the Berwyn range, killing six crew.
- 28 August - An RAF Blackburn Botha with a crew of three crashes into the sea off Rhosneigr, Anglesey. A further eleven people die in the rescue attempt.
- September - Sir Archibald Rowlands joins the Beaverbrook and Harriman mission to Moscow.
- 10 October - Two planes collide at RAF Llandwrog, killing seventeen people.
- 12 October - A German Heinkel 111 is shot down near Holyhead, killing four crew.
- 22 October - A German Heinkel 111 is shot down near Nefyn, killing four crew.
- October - Alun Lewis receives his army commission.
- 25 November - Five miners are killed in an accident at Abergorki Colliery, Rhondda.
- 6 December - Ruperra Castle is seriously damaged by fire.
- Closure of the tinplate works at Kidwelly.
- Artist Frank Brangwyn and administrator Elias Wynne Cemlyn-Jones are knighted.
- Sir Guildhaume Myrddin-Evans becomes Head of the Production Executive Secretariat at the War Cabinet Offices.
[edit] Arts and literature
- Lyn Harding makes his last stage appearance was in the West End in 1941 at the age of 74.
[edit] Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - David Emrys James
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Dafydd Owen
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - withheld
[edit] New books
[edit] Broadcasting
[edit] Births
- 5 February - Gareth Williams, Baron Williams of Mostyn, politician
- 26 February - Rhys Jones, archaeologist
- 27 February - Charlie Faulkner, rugby player
- 31 March - David Trefgarne, 2nd Baron Trefgarne, politician
- 13 April - Margaret Price, operatic soprano
- 7 July - Michael Howard, politician
- 11 August - Nerys Hughes, actress
- 20 August - Anne Evans, operatic soprano
- 26 October - Charlie Landsborough, singer and composer
- 10 December - Jeff Jones, cricketer
[edit] Deaths
- 2 January - Sir John Rowland, civil servant
- 20 January - Margaret Lloyd George, first wife of David Lloyd George
- 3 February - Sir Clifford John Cory, Baronet, coal-owner
- 10 March - William Henry Seager, politician
- 11 March - Sir Henry Walford Davies, composer
- 17 April - Sir William Henry Hoare Vincent, civil servant
- 11 July - Arthur Evans, archaeologist of Welsh descent
- 11 September - Harry Grindell Matthews, inventor
- 16 September - George Florance Irby, 6th Baron Boston, scientist and archaeologist
- 10 October - Geraint Goodwin, writer
- 31 December - George Isaac Thomas (Arfryn), composer and conductor
