1998 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1998 to Wales and its people.

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Incumbents

Events
  • 24 February - The Criminal Cases Review Commission overturns the murder charge of Mahmood Hussein Mattan, who was executed in 1952 for killing a Cardiff shopkeeper.[3]
  • February - Britain's first official register of historic landscapes is published by Cadw. It lists 36 landscapes in Wales of outstanding historic interest.
  • 6 March - Flintshire Bridge is officially opened.[4]
  • 8-9 April - Torrential rain over eastern Wales results in widespread flooding.
  • 13 April - Montgomeryshire MP Lembit Öpik is seriously injured in a paragliding accident in his constituency.[5]
  • May - Cistercian Way long-distance trail originates.
  • June - The Arts Council of Wales publishes its consultation paper Building A Creative Society.
  • Ron Davies is appointed to the highest order of the Gorsedd of the Bards at the 1998 National Eisteddfod in Bridgend
  • 31 July - The Government of Wales Act 1998, that will establish a devolved Welsh Assembly, receives its Royal Assent.[6]
  • 19 September - Ron Davies is elected in preference to Rhodri Morgan as Labour's candidate for First Secretary of the Assembly.[7]
  • 22-31 October - Heavy rainfall across Wales results in river levels rising to warning levels. Flood plains are inundated and there is extensive flooding of houses and other property.
  • 27 October - Ron Davies resigns as Secretary of State for Wales after being mugged in an incident on Clapham Common, following what he described as an "error of judgment".[1]
  • 18 November - Jon Owen Jones, MP, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Wales, announces that the Environment Agency has been asked for a report on the October floods.
  • November - Maenofferen slate quarry at Blaenau Ffestiniog ceases production.

Arts and literature

Awards

New books

English language

Welsh language
  • Dafydd Huws - Dyddiadur Dyn Dŵad
  • Huw Ethall - Pennar Davies: Y Dyn a'i Waith

Film

Welsh language films
  • Bride of War, starring Huw Garmon (in Welsh, English, French, German and Polish).

Music

Broadcasting

Welsh-language television
  • November – A new digital channel is launched, broadcasting in Welsh for twelve hours a day.[11]

English-language television

    Sport

    Births
    • 18 December – Cameron Coxe, footballer
    • 29 December–- Mark Harris, footballer

    Deaths
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    See also

    References
    1. David Pollard; Neil Parpworth; David Hughes (14 June 2007). Constitutional and Administrative Law: Text with Materials. OUP Oxford. p. 172. ISBN 978-0-19-928637-9.
    2. Norman Doe (29 February 2020). A New History of the Church in Wales: Governance and Ministry, Theology and Society. Cambridge University Press. p. 113. ISBN 978-1-108-49957-6.
    3. Roda P. Roberts (2000). The Critical Link 2: Interpreters in the Community : Selected Papers from the Second International Conference on Interpreting in Legal, Health, and Social Service Setting. John Benjamins Publishing. p. 246. ISBN 90-272-1636-3.
    4. "Happy Birthday Flintshire Bridge – It was officially opened on March 6th 1998". deeside.com. 6 March 2018. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
    5. Higgit, D. (27 August 2005). "The day my life changed". Western Standard. Archived from the original on 18 January 2008. Retrieved 2007-10-26.
    6. Robert Hazell (2000). The State and the Nations: The First Year of Devolution in the United Kingdom. Imprint Academic. p. 2. ISBN 978-0-907845-80-5.
    7. Colin Pilkington (2002). Devolution in Britain Today. Manchester University Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-7190-6076-2.
    8. "Winners of the Chair". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 February 2020.
    9. "Winners of the Crown". National Eisteddfod of Wales. 3 February 2020.
    10. David Armstrong (4 November 2011). How Not to Write a Novel: Confessions of a Midlist Author. Allison & Busby. p. 101. ISBN 978-0-7490-1135-2.
    11. Janet Davies (15 January 2014). The Welsh Language: A History. University of Wales Press. p. 125. ISBN 978-1-78316-129-4.
    12. "Snooker: Williams wins on respotted black". The Independent. 9 February 1998. Retrieved 14 May 2019.
    13. Ivan Ponting (21 February 1998). "Obituary: Robbie James". The Independent. Retrieved 25 November 2010.
    14. I. M. James and A. R. Pears, "Obituary: Mary Wynne Warner (1932–1998)" Bulletin of the London Mathematical Society 34(6)(December 2001): 745–752. DOI: 10.1112/S0024609302001467
    15. Meic Stephens (10 April 1998). "Obituary: Kate Bosse-Griffiths". The Independent. Retrieved 4 October 2019.
    16. Bill Christine (25 October 2017). They Left Their Hearts in San Francisco: The Lives of Songwriters George Cory and Douglass Cross. McFarland. p. 183. ISBN 978-1-4766-6900-7.
    17. Peter Warren (23 June 1998). "Vronwy Hankey". The Independent.
    18. Cole, Robert (21 May 1998). "Obituary: Arthur Rees". The Independent. Retrieved 1 June 2011.
    19. Dennis Griffiths (2006). Fleet Street: Five Hundred Years of the Press. British Library. p. 389. ISBN 978-0-7123-0697-3.
    20. D. Densil Morgan. "Jones, Robert Tudur (1921-1998), theologian, church historian and public figure". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 8 October 2019.
    21. F. Maurice Speed; James Cameron-Wilson (1999). Film Review. W. H. Allen.
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