1949 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1949 to Wales and its people.

[edit] Incumbents

May - Dylan and Caitlin Thomas settle at the Boat House, Laugharne.
21 September - A meteorite falls through the roof of the Prince Llewelyn Hotel, Beddgelert.
26 December - The Gwyn Nicholls memorial gates at Cardiff Arms Park are officially opened.
Gwynfor Evans is elected to Merionethshire County Council.
Closure of the granite quarry at Llanbedrog.
Meteorologist David Brunt is knighted.
Sale of Bron-y-garth, Porthmadog, ancestral home of Sir Lewis Casson.
Council of Wales and Monmouthshire is formed, with Huw T. Edwards as its first chairman.
Urdd Gobaith Cymru holds its first "Celtic camp".
Jack Jones spends three months in the USA promoting the Moral Re-Armament Movement.

Dannie Abse - After Every Green Thing
Stanley Stephen Awbery - Labour's Early Struggles in Swansea
Aneirin Talfan Davies - Gwyr Llen
David James Davies - Towards an Economic Democracy
Richard Davies (Isgarn) - Caniadau Isgarn (posthumously published)
Cledwyn Hughes - A Wanderer in North Wales
Jane Ann Jones - Y bryniau pell
Arthur Leach - Charles Norris of Tenby and Waterwynch
John Daniel Vernon Lewis - Bydd melys fy myfyrdod: detholiad o lyfr y Salmau
Gordon Macdonald, 1st Baron Macdonald of Gwaenysgor - Newfoundland at the Cross Roads
Thomas Mardy-Jones - Character, Coal and Corn — the Roots of British Power
Kate Roberts - Stryd y Glep
Bertrand Russell - Authority and the Individual
Gwyn Thomas – All Things Betray Thee
William Nantlais Williams - Emynau'r daith

Blue Scar, starring Kenneth Griffith and Rachel Thomas
The Last Days of Dolwyn, starring Emlyn Williams, Richard Burton and Hugh Griffith
Yr Etifeddiaeth (The Heritage), documentary by Geoff Charles and John Roberts Williams, depicting traditional ways of life in rural North Wales, with narration by Cynan.
The Fruitful Year, a promotional film about Wales, commissioned by the Post Office National Savings.
The Road to Yesterday, travelogue made for troops serving abroad.

Football - John Charles joins Leeds United
Netball - The Welsh team plays its first international matches, against Scotland and England
Rugby Union
- 26 March France beats Wales 5–3 at the Stade Colombes in Paris.
- 26 December - Rhys Gabe officially opens the "Gwyn Nicholls Memorial Gates" at Cardiff Arms Park.

15 January - Stanley Bligh, barrister and landowner (born 1870)
20 January - Artie Moore, wireless operator (born 1887)
21 January - Jimmy Thomas, politician, 72
7 March - T. Gwynn Jones ("Tir-na-Nog"), poet and journalist, 77
20 April - Sir Evan Davies Jones, 1st Baronet, civil engineer and politician, 90
21 April - Sir Alfred Thomas Davies, civil servant, 88
27 April - Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar, 55
May - Horace Lyle, President of the Welsh Rugby Union, 88
3 May - David John Tawe Jones, composer, 64
8 May - Abel J. Jones, teacher, writer and public servant
23 July - John Bodvan Anwyl (Bodfan), lexicographer, 74
10 August - William Jones Williams, public servant, 86
26 August - Edgar Chappell, sociologist, 70
1 September - Edward Morgan (E. T.), rugby player, 69
24 October - T. Rowland Hughes, author, 46
16 December - George Maitland Lloyd Davies, pacifist politician, 59