1956 in Wales

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Incumbents

2 April - Huw Wheldon marries Jacqueline Clarke.
24 April - A 250,000 signature petition is presented to the Westminster parliament by the all-party Parliament for Wales Campaign.
9 May - The Gower Peninsula becomes the first area in the British Isles to be designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.
9 July - Mettoy introduce Corgi Toys model cars, manufactured at Fforestfach in South Wales.
22 November - In a mining accident at Lewis Merthyr Colliery, seven men are killed.
Bangor Normal College and Trinity College, Carmarthen, introduce courses in Welsh-medium teaching.
Opening of the first Welsh-medium secondary school in Wales - Ysgol Glan Clwyd, Rhyl.
Aberystwyth's town clock is demolished.
The last Welsh-built naval vessel afloat, former iron screw frigate HMS Inconstant (1868), built at Pembroke Dock, is broken up (in Belgium).

Welsh language periodical Y Faner is bought by Huw T. Edwards and thus saved from going out of business.
Morecambe and Wise are reunited by chance at the Swansea Empire Theatre.
22 November - The New Scientist is founded by Percy Cudlipp, who becomes its first editor.

February - Release of Shirley Bassey's first single, Burn My Candle (At Both Ends)
William Mathias - Suite for Trumpet and Piano, Op.4
Grace Williams - Symphony No. 2

Granada Television begins producing produced up to an hour a week of current affairs and education programmes in Welsh, to serve the overlap audience in north Wales.

June - First televised English-language play produced in Wales, Wind of Heaven.

Boxing
- 27 August - Joe Erskine defeats Johnny Williams in Cardiff to win the vacant British heavyweight title.
Rugby Union
- Wales under the captaincy of Cliff Morgan, win the Five Nations Championship for the fifth time this decade.
- 24 March - Wales beat France 5–3 in a game held at the National Stadium, Cardiff
BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year - Joe Erskine

4 January - Robert Williams Parry, poet, 71
10 January - Jack Johns, cricketer, 70
14 January - Sam Ramsey, Wales international rugby union player
23 January - William Harris, academic and translator, 71
1 February - John Lloyd-Jones, academic, 70
22 February - Nathaniel Walters, Wales international rugby player, 80
27 February - Tudor Rees, lawyer, judge and Liberal politician, 75
May - Iwan Bala, artist
19 May - Peter Freeman, politician, 67
8 June - Walter Rice, 7th Baron Dynevor, soldier, civil servant and politician, 82
5 July - Fred Birt, Welsh international rugby union player, 69
11 June - Frank Brangwyn, artist, 89
17 August - William Havard, Bishop of St. Davids and international rugby player, 66
31 August - Winifred Coombe Tennant, politician and philanthropist, 81
13 September - David Davies, footballer, 77
11 October - David James Davies, economist and politician, 63
16 October - Robert Evans (Cybi), historian, 84
22 November - Rhys Hopkin Morris MP, politician, 68
16 December - Nina Hamnett, artist, 66
28 December - John Dyfnallt Owen, poet and archdruid, 83

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