Arts and Literature
- Siân Phillips is awarded a CBE in the Queen's birthday honours list.
- Bryn Terfel's Faenol Festival is launched.
- The Welsh Music Foundation is established.
- Between May and August, over 100 rare maps are stolen from the National Library of Wales. A man later confesses to having stolen and sold them to collectors.
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