1935 in Wales

Centuries:	18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1910s; 1920s; 1930s; 1940s; 1950s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1935 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

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.
3 December - Felinfoel Brewery in Llanelli becomes the first in the UK to sell beer in cans.
Ten people are jailed at Blaina and a further 32 at Merthyr Tydfil during a period of industrial unrest in South Wales.
Penallta Colliery takes the European record for amount of coal wound in a 24-hour period.^[2]
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.

15 February - Tom Reason, cricketer, 44
March - William Frost, inventor, 86
3 March - Caradog Roberts, composer, 46
13 March - Francis Vaughan, Roman Catholic bishop, 57 (post-operative complications)
20 March - Ernest Edwin Williams, journalist, author and barrister, 68
24 March - Maurice Parry, footballer, 57
9 May - John Goulstone Lewis, Wales international rugby union player, 75
18 May - T. E. Lawrence, "Lawrence of Arabia", 46 (motorcycle accident)^[4]
26 July - Albert Bethel, politician, 61
12 August - Gareth Richard Vaughan Jones, journalist and secretary to Lloyd George, 29 (murdered)^[5]
21 August - Matthew Vaughan-Davies, 1st Baron Ystwyth, politician, 94
20 September - Teddy Peers, footballer, 48
10 October - Samuel Evans, educationist
31 October - Noah Ablett, politician, 52 (alcohol-related)^[6]
13 December - Amy Dillwyn, businesswoman and novelist, 90

↑ "Nine Mile Point". Welsh Coal Mines. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
↑ "Penallta Colliery". Welsh Coal Mines. Retrieved 2017-12-24.
↑ National Library of Wales Dr Llewelyn Wyn Griffith Papers]. Accessed 16 November 2014
↑ "T.E. Lawrence, To Arabia and back". BBC. Retrieved 24 August 2013.
↑ "Journalist Gareth Jones' 1935 murder examined by BBC Four". BBC News. 2012-07-05. Retrieved 2012-07-05.
↑ The Welsh Academy Encyclopaedia of Wales. John Davies, Nigel Jenkins, Menna Baines and Peredur Lynch (2008) pg11 ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6

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