1935 in Wales

1935 in Wales
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1935 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland
Other events of 1935

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1935 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

23 April - Morriston Orpheus Choir is founded by Ivor E. Sims.
17 June - The first detection of an aircraft by ground-based radar, is achieved by a team including Edward George Bowen.
October - At Nine Mile Point Colliery in Cwmfelinfach [1], 164 miners take part in a "stay-down" strike action lasting 177 hours.
14 November - In the UK general election:
- Megan Lloyd George reverts from Independent Liberal to Liberal MP after a 4-year estrangement from the party leadership.
- Newly-elected MPs include Arthur Jenkins at Pontypool.
Ten people are jailed at Blaina and a further 32 at Merthyr Tydfil during a period of industrial unrest in South Wales.
Felinfoel Brewery in Llanelli becomes the first in Europe to sell beer in cans.
Industrialist MP Henry Haydn Jones is knighted and becomes the owner of Aberllefenni Quarry.

Y Chwarelwr, the first Welsh language film
Pink Shirts, an amateur film made by the Marquess of Anglesey and his family and written by Peter Fleming, satirizing the British Fascists movement.

Rugby - Swansea is the first British club to defeat a touring New Zealand side and become the first team, club or international, to beat all three major touring Southern Hemisphere countries.

3 March - Caradog Roberts, composer
9 May - John Goulstone Lewis, Wales international rugby union player
18 May - T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia"
26 July - Albert Bethel, politician (born 1874)
12 August - Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones, journalist and secretary to Lloyd George
21 August - Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician
10 October - Samuel Evans, educationist
31 October - Noah Ablett, politician
- date unknown - Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist