Events
- 20 January - Edward, Prince of Wales, accedes to the throne as King Edward VIII 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 (The burning of the bombing school), or, Tân yn Llŷn (Fire in Llŷn), a sabotage attack on Penyberth aerodrome is carried out by Lewis Valentine, D. J. Williams and Saunders Lewis.
- 19 November - On a visit to 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.
- 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.
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“I have no time to read newspapers. If you chance to live and move and have your being in that thin stratum in which the events which make the news transpire—thinner than the paper on which it is printed—then these things will fill the world for you; but if you soar above or dive below that plane, you cannot remember nor be reminded of them.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Amelia E. Barr (1831–1919)
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—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)