2004 in Wales
See also:
2003 in Wales,
other events of 2004,
2005 in Wales and the
list of years in Wales.
Incumbents
Events
- January 6: Inquest opens into the death of Diana, Princess of Wales.
- January 12: Inquest opens into the death of 12-year-old Stuart Cunningham-Jones in a school bus crash in December 2002.
- February 23: Former Welsh Secretary Ron Davies announces he is joining the new Forward Wales party led by John Marek.
- March 1: The Prince of Wales visits the Vale of Glamorgan and attends a special service in Cowbridge.
- March 13: Market town of Cowbridge celebrates the 750th anniversary of its charter.
- March 23: National Library of Wales successfully bids for an 18th century Welsh manuscript auctioned in Los Angeles.
- April 5: Launch of Katherine Jenkins ' first album, Première.
- April 28: Wales Trades Union Congress annual conference at Llandudno.
- May 28: Technology Wales 2004 at the Celtic Manor Resort, Newport.
- May 28: Guardian Hay Festival , annual literary festival, opens at Hay-on-Wye.
- May 31: Urdd National Eisteddfod opens at Llangefni.
- June 4: Professor Merfyn Jones is named as the new Vice Chancellor of the University of Wales, Bangor.
- June 10: As a result of the local elections, there is power sharing in nine councils across Wales, Labour control in eight, Independents in three, and Plaid Cymru and the Conservatives control one each.
- June 24: Swansea police arrest twenty people on charges of drug dealing.
- July 6: International Musical Eisteddfod opens in Llangollen.
- July 14: National Woollen Museum re-opens at Dre-fach Felindre.
- July 19: Royal Welsh Show opens at Builth Wells.
- July 28: It is announced that the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education, Swansea Institute of Higher Education , Trinity College, Carmarthen and the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama will all become part of the University of Wales.
- July 30: National Eisteddfod of Wales opens at Tredegar House near Newport.
- August 12: Keep Cardiff Tidy campaign wins a special merit award at the Association of Public Service Excellence Awards 2004.
- August 26: Festival of History in North Wales opens in Llanfairfechan.
- August 28: Bryn Terfel's Faenol Festival opens.
- September 7: Kalan Kawa Karim, an Iraqi Kurd, dies after what police take to be a racist attack in Swansea city centre.
- October 8: Breconshire Brewery wins the "Champion Beer of Wales" competition in Cardiff.
- October 26: Monmouth-based inventor, Andrew Hubert von Staufer , wins the Platinum Award for Design and Gold Award for Leisure at the British Invention Show .
- November 2: Flights to Egypt are available for the first time from Cardiff Wales Airport .
- November 8: Launch of the Welsh Assembly Government's "free swimming for over-60s" pilot scheme.
- November 19: The Wales Children in Need concert is held at Wrexham, starring Bryan Adams.
- November 26: Official opening of the Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff
- December 7: The Stereophonics introduce their new drummer, Argentinian Javier Weyler .
Arts and literature
- Awards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Huw Meirion Edwards
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Jason Walford Davies
- National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Annes Glyn
- Wales Book of the Year:
- English language: Niall Griffiths , Stump
- Welsh language: Jerry Hunter , Llwch Cenhedloedd
- The Dylan Thomas Prize , a new £60,000 literary prize, was announced on August 17. The first award will be made in 2006.
Film
Broadcasting
Sports
Births
Deaths
- January 22 - Islwyn Ffowc Elis, author
- February 21 - John Charles, legendary footballer
- April 18 - Geraint Howells, politician
- April 25 - Eirug Wyn, author
- June 2 - Alun Richards, novelist
- July 14 - Rhys Thomas, rugby player
- July 17 - Sir Julian Hodge, banker
- September 10 - Glyn Owen, actor
- September 15 - Sue Noake , athletics official
- October 13 - Bernice Rubens, novelist
- November 28 - Jonah Jones , author
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