1980 in Wales

Centuries:	18th; 19th; 20th; 21st;
Decades:	1960s; 1970s; 1980s; 1990s; 2000s;
See also:	List of years in Wales; 1980 in The United Kingdom Ireland Scotland

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1980 to Wales and the Welsh people.

Incumbents

2 January - Workers at British Steel Corporation go on strike over pay.
May - Plaid Cymru leader Gwynfor Evans announces his intention to go on hunger strike in protest against the government's failure to honour its promise of a fourth Welsh-language television channel. The government backs down on 17 September, a few weeks before Evans's deadline.
June - Penelope Clarke of Lanover marries François Fillon, future Prime Minister of France.
8 June - Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones preaches for the last time, at Barcombe Baptist Chapel.
11 July - Britannia Bridge A55 road deck officially opened by The Prince of Wales.
August - Dragon Data introduces the Dragon 32 home computer.
John Maddox becomes editor of Nature.
The Church in Wales votes to ordain women deacons.
Death of last pure-bred Rhiw sheep.
Cardiff Zoo closed.^[1]
Welsh Highland Railway Ltd begins using the name "Rheilffordd Ucheldir Cymru".

Richard Burton makes one of his last stage appearances, in the musical Camelot.
Michael Bogdanov becomes Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre.
Bobi Jones is appointed to the professorial Chair in Welsh at University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
The publisher Gwasg Carreg Gwalch is founded by Myrddin ap Dafydd at Capel Garmon.

The Mouse and the Woman, based on a novel by Dylan Thomas, written by Vincent Kane and directed by Karl Francis, co-stars Huw Ceredig, Beti Lloyd-Jones and Dafydd Hywel.
Dragonslayer is filmed at Dolwyddelan Castle.

9 February - Tom Macdonald, writer, 79
25 February - Caradog Prichard, author, 75
14 May - Hugh Griffith, actor, 67
4 June - Don Tarr, Wales international rugby player, 70
7 June - Idwal Davies, footballer, 80
15 September - Bill Evans, American jazz pianist of Welsh descent, 51 (drug-related)
4 November - Johnny Owen, boxer, 24
26 November - Rachel Roberts, actress, 53 (suicide)
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- Aneirin Talfan Davies, critic and broadcaster, 71
- Tom Parri Jones, poet
- Jack Warner, footballer

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