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See also: 2003 in Wales, other events of 2004, 2005 in Wales and the list of years in Wales.

Contents 1 Incumbents 2 Events 3 Arts and literature 3.1 Awards 3.2 New books 3.3 Music 4 Film 4.1 Welsh language films 5 Broadcasting 6 Sports 7 Births 8 Deaths

[edit] Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Charles, Prince of Wales
• Princess of Wales - vacant
• First Minister - Rhodri Morgan
• Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales - Dafydd Elis-Thomas
• Secretary of State for Wales - Peter Hain
• Archbishop of Wales - Barry Morgan (Bishop of Llandaff)

[edit] 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.
  • Cardiff is granted Fairtrade City status.
• March 13: Market town of Cowbridge celebrates the 750th anniversary of its charter.
• March 15: A second bridge over the river Monnow is opened in Monmouth.
• 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 6 - Rhodri Morgan, the First Minister of Wales is criticized for not attending celebrations to mark the 60th anniversary of D-Day.
• 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 2: Jeffrey John, an openly gay clergyman originally from Tonyrefail, becomes Dean of St Albans.
• July 6:
  • International Musical Eisteddfod opens in Llangollen.
  • The Queen unveils the memorial fountain erected in London in memory of Diana, Princess of Wales.
• 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 & 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 at the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) Great Welsh Beer Festival 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 International 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 31: In the New Year Honours List, author Leslie Thomas is made an OBE for services to literature.

[edit] Arts and literature

• 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.
• August 17: Announcement of the Dylan Thomas Prize, a new £60,000 literary prize. The first award will be made in 2006.
• November - Roger Rees is appointed artistic director of the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
• November - Welsh National Opera moves into the Wales Millennium Centre.
• December 7: The Stereophonics introduce their new drummer, Argentinian Javier Weyler.

[edit] 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
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Music Medal - Owain Llwyd
• Wales Book of the Year:
  • English language: Niall Griffiths, Stump
  • Welsh language: Jerry Hunter, Llwch Cenhedloedd
• Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen - Robin Llywelyn, Un Diwrnod yn yr Eisteddfod
• John Tripp Award for Spoken Poetry: Clare Potter

[edit] New books

• Peter Finch - Real Cardiff
• Niall Griffiths - Stump
• Mererid Hopwood - Singing in Chains: Listening to Welsh Verse
• Jon Ronson - The Men Who Stare at Goats
• Eirug Wyn - Dyn yn y Cefn Heb Fwstash

[edit] Music

• Dill Jones - Davenport Blues (posthumous album release)
• Katell Keineg - July
• Alun Tan Lan - Aderyn Papur
• Lostprophets - Start Something
• Tom Jones and Jools Holland (album)
• Tystion - Miwsig I'ch Traed A Miwsig I'ch Meddwl

[edit] Film

• Ioan Gruffudd stars as Lancelot in King Arthur.

[edit] Welsh language films

• Dal: Yma/Nawr, with John Cale, Ioan Gruffudd, Guto Harri, Cerys Matthews, Sian Phillips

[edit] Broadcasting

• May 3: New community radio station, WHAM! RADIO 1449, launched in Blaenavon.
• July 16: Filming of a new Doctor Who series begins in Cardiff.
• July 28: S4C and the Royal Welsh Agricultural Society sign a deal guaranteeing nation-wide TV coverage of the Royal Welsh Show for the next five years.
• October 17: Pobol y Cwm, the Welsh language soap opera, celebrates its thirtieth anniversary by receiving a "Hall of Fame" award from the Royal Television Society.
• November: Bread of Heaven, a series of six programmes about the history of religion in Wales, presented by Huw Edwards, begins its run on BBC1 Wales.

[edit] Sports

• June 4: Simon Khan breaks the course record at the Celtic Manor Wales Open golf tournament.
• June 24: Joe Calzaghe pulls out of scheduled world title fight against Glen Johnson because of injury.
• August Bank Holiday Monday: The 19th World Bog Snorkelling Championships are held at Llanwrtyd Wells.
• September 15: Mark Hughes resigns as manager of the Welsh national soccer team after being appointed manager of Blackburn Rovers.
• September 16: Wales Rally GB begins in Cardiff.
• September 17: Opening of the Paralympics in Athens. Welsh athletes returned home with twelve gold, six silver and nine bronze medals.
• October 9: Wales lose 2-0 to England at soccer.
• November 12: John Toshack becomes the new Wales soccer manager.
• November 20: Wales Rugby Union side lose 25-26 to New Zealand at the Millennium Stadium, Cardiff.
• December 6: Tanni Grey-Thompson becomes the BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year 2004 (50th anniversary of the award).

[edit] Births

[edit] 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
• October 21 - Brinley Rees, academic
• November 28 - Jonah Jones, author