1936 in Wales

1936 in Wales
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1936 in: The United Kingdom • Ireland • Scotland
Other events of 1936

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1936 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

20 January - Edward, Prince of Wales, accedes to the throne as Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom.
March - Jim Griffiths, later the first Secretary of State for Wales, is elected member for Llanelli following the death in office of the sitting MP.
May - Colonial Secretary Jimmy Thomas is forced to resign from politics after a scandal involving Stock Exchange dealings.
8 September - In an incident known as Llosgi'r ysgol fomio (The burning of the bombing school), or, Tân yn Llŷn (Fire in Llŷn), a sabotage attack on Penyberth aerodrome is carried out by Lewis Valentine, D. J. Williams and Saunders Lewis.
19 November - On a visit to depressed areas of the South Wales Valleys King Edward VIII comments that "These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again."^[1] The remark is much misquoted.
Dowlais Ironworks ceases steel production at its original Dowlais works.
Treforest Trading Estate opens.,
Saunders Lewis courts further controversy by appearing to praise Adolf Hitler.
Six men and one woman are jailed after an anti-Fascist demonstration at Tonypandy.
Of 118 men from the South Wales coalfield who enlist in the International Brigade, 34 are killed.

Rex Barker - Christ In The Valley of Unemployment
Ambrose Bebb - Crwydro'r Cyfandir
Geraint Goodwin - The Heyday in the Blood
W. F. Grimes - The Megalithic Monuments of Wales
I. D. Hooson - Cerddi a Baledi
Kate Roberts (author) - Traed mewn cyffion
Bertrand Russell - Which Way to Peace?
Dylan Thomas - Twenty-five Poems,^[2] including "And death shall have no dominion"
Ethel Lina White - The Wheel Spins (The Lady Vanishes)

Visit of David Lloyd George to Germany (shot by David Lloyd George's private secretary)

9 January
- David Phillips Jones, Wales international rugby player, 54
- "Buller" Williams, Wales international rugby player
20 January - George V (Prince of Wales, 1901–1910), 70
7 February - John Henry Williams, sitting MP for Llanelli, 66
23 February - Harry Jones, Welsh-born prospector and politician in British Columbia, 95
5 May - Percy Bennett, Wales international rugby player, 66
13 June - William Elsey, Wales international rugby player, 65
3 August - John Alf Brown, Wales international rugby player, 54
2 September - William Rees, priest and writer, 77
28 October - George Barker, politician, 78
29 October - Dan Griffiths, Wales international rugby player, 79
11 November - Sir Edward German, English composer of Welsh descent, 71

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↑ Cox, Michael, ed. (2004). The Concise Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-860634-6.