2001 in Wales

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales – Charles
• Princess of Wales – vacant
• First Minister – Rhodri Morgan
• Secretary of State for Wales – Paul Murphy
• Archbishop of Wales – Rowan Williams
• Archdruid of the National Eisteddfod of Wales – Meirion Evans

  Events

• 1 March – Peter Clarke is appointed Children's Commissioner for Wales.
• 1 June – Official opening of Cardiff Bay Barrage.
• 7 June – In the UK general election:
• *Plaid Cymru retain a total of 4 seats. They lose Ynys Môn to Labour but Adam Price gains Carmarthen East and Dinefwr from Labour's Alan Williams.
• *Newly elected Labour MPs include Hywel Francis, Mark Tami, Wayne David, Ian Lucas and Chris Bryant
• *Kevin Brennan replaces Rhodri Morgan as MP for Cardiff West.
• 16 June – Entrepreneur Terry Matthews is knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
• 11 July – Welsh language pressure group Cymuned is launched at a meeting in Mynytho.
• 1 August – Coleg Harlech Workers' Educational Association is created through the merger of The Workers' Educational Association and Coleg Harlech.
• 16 September – To commemorate "Glyndwr Day", actress Siân Phillips unveils a memorial statue to Catrin Glyndŵr in London.
• 26 October – A memorial service to celebrate the life of Harry Secombe is held at Westminster Abbey and attended by Charles, Prince of Wales.

  Arts and literature

• 15 March - Julien Macdonald is chosen as fashion house Givenchy's new designer.
• 24 March - Opening of the exhibition Let Paul Robeson Sing! in Cardiff.
• 29 June - S4C's Chwaraeon/Sport 2000 promotional video has won three silver awards in the "Best In-House Promo" at the world Promax Awards ceremony in Miami, Florida.
• 15 December - Rob Brydon wins Best TV Comedy Actor award in the British Comedy Awards.
• 25 December - Matthew Rhys and Tom Ward star in a TV adaptation of The Lost World.
• November - John Bourne establishes the Wrexham Stuckists group of artists.
• Jessica Garlick makes the last ten in the first series of Pop Idol.
• Andrew Vicari sells a collection of 125 paintings of the First Gulf War to Prince Khaled of Saudi Arabia for £17 million.
• Irish photographer Paul Seawright is awarded a personal chair by the University of Wales, Newport.

  Awards

• Prix Hélène Rochas - Rebecca Evans
• Cardiff Singer of the World - Marius Brenciu
• Glyndŵr Award - John Meirion Morris

  National Eisteddfod (held in [Denbigh])

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Mererid Hopwood
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Penri Roberts
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Elfyn Pritchard
• Wales Book of the Year:
• *English language: Stephen Knight - Mr Schnitzel
• *Welsh language: Owen Martell - Cadw dy ffydd, brawd
• Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen -

  New books

English language

• Malcolm Pryce - Aberystwyth Mon Amour
• Alastair Reynolds - Chasm City
• Jon Ronson -
• Carole Seymour-Jones - Painted Shadow: The Life of Vivienne Eliot, First Wife of T.S. Eliot

  Welsh language

• Gwynfor Evans - Cymru o Hud
• :cy:Tudur Dylan Jones|Tudur Dylan Jones - Adenydd
• Angharad Tomos - Cnonyn Aflonydd

  Music

• Feeder - Echo Park
• Hilary Tann - The Grey Tide and the Green, commissioned for the Last Night of the Welsh Proms and performed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Owain Arwel Hughes
• Catatonia - Paper Scissors Stone
• Goldie Lookin' Chain - Don't Blame the Chain
• Melys - Chinese Whispers
• Terris - "Fabricated Lunacy" and Learning to Let Go

  Film

• John Rhys-Davies makes his first appearance as Gimli in .
• Sara Sugarman writes and directs Very Annie Mary, featuring Welsh stars such as Jonathan Pryce, Kenneth Griffith, Matthew Rhys, Ioan Gruffudd, Mary Hopkin and Ruth Madoc.
• Rhys Ifans co-stars in The Shipping News.
• A Bollywood film, Mein Dil Tujhko Diya , is shot in Aberystwyth and the Elan Valley.
• In Gosford Park, Jeremy Northam plays a fictionalised version of Ivor Novello. Several of Novello's songs feature in the film's soundtrack.
• Nia Roberts stars in A Day Out.

  Welsh-language films

• Against the Dying of the Light
• Y Delyn

  Broadcasting

Welsh-language television

• Y Stafell Ddirgel

  English-language television

• The Bench

  Sport

• Football - Liverpool F.C. win the FA Cup the first time it is played in Cardiff's Millennium Stadium.

  Births

• 23 March - Dream Alliance, racehorse bred near Blackwood

  Deaths

• 11 January - Lorna Sage, critic, 57
• 20 January - Crispin Nash-Williams, mathematician, 68
• 18 February - Claude Davey, Wales international rugby union captain, 92
• 22 February - Cledwyn Hughes, Lord Cledwyn of Penrhos, former Secretary of State for Wales, 84
• 11 April - Sir Harry Secombe, singer and comedian, 79
• 16 April - Henry Morgan Lloyd, clergyman, 89
• 26 April - Dafydd Rowlands, minister and writer, 69
• 30 April - Brian Morris, Baron Morris of Castle Morris, poet, critic and politician, 71
• 25 May - Delme Bryn-Jones, operatic baritone, 67
• 10 June - Samuel Ifor Enoch, theologian, 86
• 17 July - Val Feld, the first member of the Welsh Assembly to die, 53
• 19 July - Roderic Bowen, MP, 87
• August - Valerie Davies, Olympic swimmer, 89
• 19 September - Rhys Jones, archaeologist, 60
• October - John Owen, television writer
• 6 December - Eryl Stephen Thomas, former Bishop of Monmouth and of Llandaff, 91
• 7 December - Ray Powell, MP, 73