1933 in Wales

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1 March (Saint David's Day) - A flag displaying the red Welsh Dragon flies officially alongside the Union Jack over Caernarfon Castle.^[1]
28 March - Rhondda East by-election: William Mainwaring retains the seat for Labour against Communist and Liberal opposition.
20 April - 28 people are injured at Cockett railway station when a locomotive travelling from Swansea to Neyland collides with the rear of the stationary 11.55 am Paddington to Milford Haven train.
June/July - Seven men and four women receive custodial sentences after a riot at Bedwas over strikebreaking.
22 July - Amy Johnson and Jim Mollison take off from Pendine on the first non-stop aeroplane flight from Great Britain to the United States.
Ronald Lockley establishes the first British bird observatory on Skokholm.

April–May - Dylan Thomas's poem And death shall have no dominion is written and published.^[2]
June - The first Gregynog Music Festival, Wales' oldest extant classical music festival, is organised by the sisters Margaret and Gwendoline Davies (granddaughters of Victorian industrialist David Davies) at their home, Gregynog Hall in Tregynon, Montgomeryshire.
Percy Cudlipp becomes editor of the Evening Standard – the youngest ever editor of a British national newspaper.

28 May - The BBC begins broadcasting the Welsh Regional Programme to South Wales from the Washford transmitter
17 July - The BBC begins broadcasting the National Programme to South Wales from the Washford transmitter
The first broadcast is made from the Urdd Eisteddfod.

Rugby union, although collecting the 'wooden spoon' in the Home Nations Championship, Wales beat England at Twickenham for the very first time, after ten previous attempts.

2 January - Keith Thomas, early modern historian and academic
7 February - Stuart Burrows, opera singer
21 March - Michael Heseltine, politician
3 April - Alan Watkins, political journalist (d. 2010)
14 May - Siân Phillips, actress
20 June
- Dai Dower, British, European and Empire flyweight boxing champion
- Dorothy Simpson, detective fiction writer
30 June - John Faull, Wales international and British Lion rugby player
17 August - Jack Hurrell, Wales international rugby union player (d. 2003)
1 September - Bedwyr Lewis Jones, writer and scholar (d. 1992)
12 September - Len Allchurch, footballer (d. 2016)
24 September - Terry Davies, Wales rugby captain and British Lion
25 September - David Parry-Jones, rugby commentator (d. 2017)
12 November - Jeffrey Thomas, politician (d. 1989)
17 November - Alan Harrington, footballer
28 November - Noel Trigg, light heavyweight boxer
31 December - Glyn Davidge, Wales international and British Lion rugby player

↑ Hughes, T. Meirion (2014). "The Red Dragon Saga". Caernarfon Through the Eye of Time. Talybont: Y Lolfa. pp. 96–106. ISBN 978-1-847-71930-0.
↑ In New English Weekly. Ferris, Paul (1989). Dylan Thomas: A Biography. New York: Paragon House. p. 83. ISBN 1-55778-215-6.
↑ "Autumn Crocus". BFI.

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