1923 in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Edward
• Princess of Wales – vacant
• Archbishop of Wales – Alfred George Edwards, Bishop of St Asaph
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
• *Dyfed
• *Cadvan

  Events

• 1 January – All major railways in Great Britain are amalgamated into the "Big Four" companies under terms of the Railways Act 1921. The Cambrian Railways and a number of smaller lines and their docks in south Wales are merged into the Great Western Railway and the London and North Western Railway and Midland Railway become part of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway.
• 13 February – The British Broadcasting Company makes its first broadcast in Wales, from "Station 5WA" in Cardiff. Mostyn Thomas opens the programme, singing Dafydd y Garreg Wen and Gwilym Davies becomes the first speaker to broadcast in the Welsh language.
• 7 April – By-election at Anglesey ends in victory for Robert Thomas.
• 26 April – In a mining accident at Trimsaran, nine miners are killed.
• 1 June – The final stage of the Welsh Highland Railway re-opens.
• 14 September – Edward Bevan is enthroned as the first Bishop of the new Anglican Diocese of Swansea & Brecon.
• 6 December – In the United Kingdom general election:
• *Ellis William Davies returns to Parliament as MP for Denbigh.
• *David Grenfell is elected unopposed in Gower.
• *Rhys Hopkin Morris gains Ceredigion for the Independent Liberals.
• *Thomas Henry Parry retains Flintshire for the Liberals with an increased majority.
• December – Agnes Twiston Hughes becomes the first Welsh woman to qualify as a solicitor.
• date unknown
• *Maurice Jones succeeds Gilbert Joyce as Principal of St David's University College, Lampeter.
• *Sir William Henry Hoare Vincent becomes a member of the Council of India.
• *Coal production at Llay Main Colliery in the North Wales Coalfield begins.

  Arts and literature

• 5 February – W. H. Davies marries Helen Payne, an ex-prostitute thirty years his junior, at East Grinstead.
• 6 June – Charles Langbridge Morgan marries Hilda Vaughan.
• W. S. Gwynn Williams becomes Director of Music for the Gorsedd of Bards.

  Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – D. Cledlyn Davies, "Dychweliad Arthur"
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – Albert Evans Jones, "Yr Ynys Unig"

  New books

English language

• Thomas Richards – Religious Developments in Wales

  Welsh language

• Edward Tegla Davies – Gŵr Pen y Bryn
• John Owen – Gwybodaeth y Sanctaidd

  Music

Film

• 14 September - G.A. Cheetham, son of cinema pioneer Arthur Cheetham, films the unveiling of the war memorial at Aberystwyth and other scenes of the life of the town, to be shown in local cinemas.
• Ivor Novello appears in The Man Without Desire, The White Rose and Bonnie Prince Charlie.

  Sport

• Boxing
• *18 June – Jimmy Wilde loses his world flyweight title and retires from the sport.
• Football
• *5 March – Wales draw 2–2 in their British Home Championship match against England, played at Ninian Park, Cardiff.
• Rugby union
• *7 December – Old Penarthians RFC is founded.

  Births

• 22 February – Bleddyn Williams, rugby player
• 28 February – John Gwilliam, rugby player
• 3 April – John Ormond, poet and journalist
• 21 April – Ronald Cass, film composer
• 25 April – Paul Whitsun-Jones, actor
• 26 July – Bernice Rubens, novelist
• 19 August – Dill Jones, pianist
• 3 September – Robin Williams, broadcaster and essayist
• 22 September – Dannie Abse, poet
• 30 September – Donald Swann, musician
• 1 October – Trevor Ford, footballer
• 5 October – Glynis Johns, actress
• 6 November – Donald Houston, actor
• 13 November – Alf Sherwood, footballer
• 21 November – Harry Greene, television D-I-Y expert
• 30 November – John James, historical novelist
• 8 December – Gwilym Prys Davies, Baron Prys-Davies, politician
• 19 December – Elwyn Jones, television writer

  Deaths

• 9 January – Richard John Lloyd Price, squire of Rhiwlas, 79
• 22 February – John Jenkins, Prime Minister of South Australia, 71
• 6 March – General Sir Owen Thomas, politician, 64
• 19 March – Evan Rees, poet, 73
• 1 April – Georgiana Rolls, Baroness Llangattock, socialite, benefactor and collector, 86
• 4 May – :cy:J. Brynach Davies|J. Brynach Davies, poet, 49
• 27 May – Charles Lewis, rugby player, 70
• 18 July – Thomas Arthur Lewis, teacher, lawyer and politician, 41
• 12 October – John Cadvan Davies, poet and hymn-writer, 77
• date unknown – Edward Bowen, footballer, 64/65