1960 in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Charles
• Princess of Wales – vacant
• Archbishop of Wales – Edwin Morris, Bishop of Monmouth
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales
• *William Morris
• *Trefin

  Events

• 1 January – Portmeirion Pottery is established when Susan Williams-Ellis and her husband Euan Cooper-Willis take over Gray's Pottery in Stoke-on-Trent.
• 5 January – Closure of the Swansea and Mumbles Railway. The service is replaced by buses operated by its owner South Wales Transport.
• 12 April – Nine miners are killed in a mining accident at Tower Colliery, Hirwaun.
• 28 June – Forty-five miners are killed in an accident at Six Bells Colliery, Monmouthshire.
• 6 August – At Llandaff Cathedral a service of thanksgiving attended by Queen Elizabeth II is held to mark the end of eleven years' restoration work following air raid damage in 1941.
• 5 September – Poet and peace campaigner Waldo Williams is sentenced at Haverfordwest to imprisonment for six weeks for non-payment of income tax.
• 3 November – Esso opens the first oil refinery at Milford Haven.

  Arts and literature

• 29 September – Ricky Valance is the first male Welsh singer to hit number one in the charts, with his cover version of Tell Laura I Love Her.

  Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair – withheld
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown – W. J. Gruffydd
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal – Rhiannon Davies Jones

  New books

• :cy:Glyn M. Ashton|Glyn M. Ashton – Tipyn o Annwyd
• Thomas Glynne Davies – Haf Creulon
• Menna Gallie – Man's Desiring
• Dic Jones – Agor Grwn
• Kate Roberts – Y Lôn Wen
• Bernice Rubens – Set on Edge
• Raymond Williams – Border Country

  New drama

• Saunders Lewis – Esther

  Music

• Alun Hoddinott – Concerto no. 2
• Arwel Hughes – Serch yw’r Doctor

  Film

• Glynis Johns stars in The Sundowners.
• Rachel Roberts stars in Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, becoming the first Welsh actress to win a BAFTA for Best British Actress.
• Keith Baxter appears alongside Orson Welles in Chimes at Midnight.

  Broadcasting

Welsh-language television

• Colegau Cerdd
• Her Yr Ifanc

  English-language television

• 1 January – Broadcast of the first weekly episode of an eight-part serialization by BBC Wales of How Green Was My Valley.
• Johnny Morris narrates the imported children's TV series Tales of the Riverbank.

  Sport

• Boxing – Dick Richardson wins the European Heavyweight title. Brian Curvis wins the British and Commonwealth welterweight titles.
• Summer Olympics – David Broome wins a bronze medal on Sunsalve in the individual show jumping event.
• Tennis – Mike Davies wins the British hard court title. He also becomes the first Welsh man to reach a Wimbledon final where he partners Bobby Wilson in the Men's Doubles.
• BBC Wales Sports Personality of the Year – Brian Curvis

  Births

• 16 January – Alun Huw Davies, vascular surgeon
• 30 January – Peter Black AM, politician
• 6 February – Jeremy Bowen, journalist and television presenter
• 14 February – Dawn Bowden, politician
• 15 February – Russell Coughlin, footballer
• 18 February – Rhys Parry Jones, actor
• 26 February – Roger Lewis, academic, biographer and journalist
• 30 April – Martin Phillips, darts player
• 3 May – Geraint Davies, politician
• 4 May – Elfyn Edwards, golfer
• 9 May – Jillian Lane, spiritual medium
• 13 June – Sir Clive Buckland Lewis, judge
• 19 June – Andrew Dilnot, economist, statistician and academic
• 23 June – Ricky Evans, rugby union player
• 29 June – Helen Mary Jones, politician
• 13 July – Ian Hislop, satirist
• 1 August – Lesley Griffiths, politician
• 18 September
• *Carolyn Harris, politician
• *Ian Lucas, politician
• 12 December – Kelvin Smart, flyweight boxer
• 24 December – Carol Vorderman, television personality
• date unknown
• *Nigel Davies, chess player
• *Lisa Francis, politician
• *Gareth Jones, orchestral and choral conductor
• *Sue Jones, Dean of Liverpool
• *Malcolm Pryce, novelist
• *William Owen Roberts, novelist and dramatist

  Deaths

• 2 January – Leila Megàne, opera singer, c. 69
• 13 January – Reginald Herbert, 15th Earl of Pembroke, 79
• 17 January – E. Llwyd Williams, minister and poet, 53
• 19 January – Charles Jones, Wales rugby international, 66
• 27 January – Joseph "Joe" Jones, dual-code rugby international, 60
• 25 February – Sir Edward Enoch Jenkins, judge, 65
• 30 March – Edward Evan, politician, 77
• 11 April – William Llewellyn Morgan, Wales international rugby union player, 76
• 7 May – Mai Jones, songwriter, 61
• 23 May – John Edwards, politician, 77
• 19 June – Thomas Alwyn Lloyd, architect, 78
• 27 June – Harry Pollitt, politician, 69
• 6 July – Aneurin Bevan, politician, 62
• 9 July – John Dyke, Wales international rugby union player, 76
• 24 August – Dai Edwards, Wales dual-code rugby international, 64
• 25 August – Tommy Jones-Davies, Wales international rugby player, 54
• 30 August – "Taffy" Jones, First World War flying ace, 64
• 27 September – George Morgan Trefgarne, 1st Baron Trefgarne, politician, 66
• 29 October – Horace Williams, footballer, c. 60
• 19 December – Billy Bowen, dual-code rugby player, 63
• 20 December – Harry Uzzell, Wales international rugby union captain, 77
• 22 December – Evan Davies, politician, 85