1936 in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Edward
• Princess of Wales – vacant
• Archbishop of Wales – Charles Green, Bishop of Bangor
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
• *Gwili
• *J.J.

  Events

• 20 January - Edward, Prince of Wales, accedes to the throne as Edward VIII, King of the United Kingdom.
• March - Jim Griffiths, later the first Secretary of State for Wales, is elected member for Llanelli following the death in office of the sitting MP.
• May - Colonial Secretary Jimmy Thomas is forced to resign from politics after a scandal involving Stock Exchange dealings.
• 8 September - In an incident known as Llosgi'r ysgol fomio , or, Tân yn Llŷn , a sabotage attack on Penyberth aerodrome is carried out by Lewis Valentine, D. J. Williams and Saunders Lewis.
• 19 November - Dowlais Ironworks ceases steel production at its original Dowlais works. On a visit to the depressed areas of the South Wales Valleys King Edward VIII comments that "These works brought all these people here. Something should be done to get them at work again." The remark is much misquoted.
• October - Saunders Lewis courts further controversy by appearing to praise Adolf Hitler.
• Six men and one woman are jailed after an anti-Fascist demonstration at Tonypandy.
• Of 118 men from the South Wales coalfield who enlist in the International Brigade, 34 are killed.
• Treforest Trading Estate opens.

  Arts and literature

Awards

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

  New books

• Rex Barker - Christ In The Valley of Unemployment
• Ambrose Bebb - Crwydro'r Cyfandir
• Margiad Evans - Creed
• Geraint Goodwin - The Heyday in the Blood
• W. F. Grimes - The Megalithic Monuments of Wales
• I. D. Hooson - Cerddi a Baledi
• Kate Roberts - Traed mewn cyffion
• Bertrand Russell - Which Way to Peace?
• Dylan Thomas - Twenty-five Poems, including "And death shall have no dominion"
• Ethel Lina White - The Wheel Spins

  New drama

• Saunders Lewis - Buchedd Garmon

  Music

• John Glyn Davies - Cerddi Portinllaen
• Arwel Hughes - Fantasia for strings
• Ivor Novello - Careless Rapture

  Film

• Visit of David Lloyd George to Germany

  Broadcasting

Sport

• Rugby Union
• *14 March - Wales beats Ireland 3-0 at Cardiff Arms Park

  Births

• 9 January - Mike Davies, tennis player and sports
• 7 February - Keith Rowlands, rugby union player and administrator
• 16 March - Vic Rouse, footballer
• 1 May - Elizabeth Rees-Williams, socialite
• 12 May - Phil Edwards, boxer
• 23 May - Jennifer Daniel, actress
• 27 June - Clive Thomas, football referee
• 6 July - Redvers Sangoe, light-heavyweight boxer
• 30 July - Haydn Morgan, Welsh international rugby union player
• 2 September - Gwyn Thomas, poet and academic
• 20 September - Andrew Davies, screenwriter
• 25 September - Michael Davies, Catholic writer
• 15 October - Timothy Stamps, Minister of Health in Zimbabwe
• 7 November - Dame Gwyneth Jones, opera singer
• 18 November - Brian Huggett, golfer

  Deaths

• 9 January
• * David Phillips Jones, Wales international rugby player, 54
• * "Buller" Williams, Wales international rugby player
• 20 January - George V, 70
• 7 February - John Henry Williams, sitting MP for Llanelli, 66
• 23 February - Harry Jones, Welsh-born prospector and politician in British Columbia, 95
• 20 March - William Napier Bruce, lawyer, 78
• 5 May - Percy Bennett, Wales international rugby player, 66
• 16 May - John Jenkins, poet and archdruid, 63
• 13 June - William Elsey, Wales international rugby player, 65
• 3 August - John Alf Brown, Wales international rugby player, 54
• 2 September - William Rees, priest and writer, 77
• 28 October - George Barker, politician, 78
• 29 October - Dan Griffiths, Wales international rugby player, 79
• 11 November - Sir Edward German, English composer of Welsh descent, 71
• 15 December - Reese J. Llewellyn, Welsh-American businessman, 64