This article is about the particular significance of the year 1933 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Edward, Prince of Wales, son of King George V of the United Kingdom
• Princess of Wales - vacant
• Archbishop of Wales - Alfred George Edwards

Events

• Seven men and four women receive custodial sentences after a riot at Bedwas.
• 28 March - Rhondda East by-election, 1933
• 22 July - Amy Johnson and Jim Mollison take off from Pendine on the first non-stop flight from the UK to the USA.

Arts and literature

• Percy Cudlipp becomes editor of the Evening Standard ? the youngest ever editor of a British national newspaper.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Wrexham)

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Edgar Phillips
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Simon B. Jones

New books

• D. J. Davies ? The Economic History of South Wales
• Caradoc Evans - Wasps
• Lily Tobias - Eunice Fleet

Music

Film

Broadcasting

• 28 May - the BBC begins broadcasting the Welsh Regional Programme to South Wales from the Washford transmitter
• 17 July - the BBC begins broadcasting the National Programme to South Wales from the Washford transmitter
• The first broadcast is made from the Urdd Eisteddfod.

Sport

• Rugby union, although collecting the 'wooden spoon' in the Home Nations Championship, Wales beat England at Twickenham for the very first time, after ten previous attempts.

Births

• 7 February - Stuart Burrows, opera singer
• 21 March - Michael Heseltine, politician
• 14 May - Siān Phillips, actress
• 20 June - Dai Dower, British, European and Empire Flyweight Boxing Champion
• 30 June - John Faull, Wales international and British Lion rugby player
• 24 September - Terry Davies, Wales rugby captain and British Lion
• 12 November - Jeffrey Thomas, politician
• 17 November - Alan Harrington, former professional footballer
• 31 December - Glyn Davidge, Wales international and British Lion rugby player
• date unknown
  • Bedwyr Lewis Jones, writer
  • Gwilym Jenkins, statistician
  • Alan Watkins, political journalist

Deaths

• 14 January - Sir Robert Jones, orthopaedic surgeon (baronet)
• 18 January - John Thomas, chemist (ICI), 46
• 2 February - Sir James Cory, 1st Baronet, politician, 76
• 15 February - Jere Blake, Wales international rugby player
• 4 April - Sir Marteine Lloyd, 2nd Baronet, 82
• 29 May - Llewelyn Kenrick, footballer, 84
• 16 July - John Tudor Walters, politician
• 10 August - Alf Morgans, Prime Minister of Western Australia
• 13 September - David Morgan, Wales international rugby player, 61
• 20 September - Alfred Cattell, Wales international rugby player, 76
• 17 October - Sid Bevan, Wales international rugby union player
• 10 November - Herbert Lewis, politician

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