1984 in Wales

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2 March - Carmarthen MP Dr Roger Thomas announces his resignation, having been prosecuted for importuning.
12 March - The miners' strike begins, with a solid turn out from all NUM mines in Wales.
3 May - At the Cynon Valley by-election brought about by the death of MP Ioan Lyonel Evans, Ann Clwyd retains the seat for Labour with an increased majority.
19 July - The Lleyn Peninsula earthquake, which strikes the Llŷn Peninsula at 06:56 UTC (07:56 BST), measuring 5.4 on the Richter scale, is the largest known onshore earthquake to occur in the UK since instrumental measurements began.^[1]
October - Dafydd Wigley resigns as leader of Plaid Cymru for domestic reasons.
30 November - Taxi driver David Wilkie is killed when a concrete block is dropped onto his car as he drives a strikebreaker to work on the M4 motorway. Dean Hancock and Russell Shankland of Rhymney are later convicted of murder.
3 December - First McDonald's hamburger fast food restaurant in Wales opens in Cardiff.
Sam Edwards becomes Cavendish Professor of Physics at Cambridge.
Clive Sinclair's C5 electric vehicle is manufactured at the Hoover works in Merthyr Tydfil.
Creation of Cadw: Welsh Historic Monuments Executive Agency.

Griff Rhys Jones wins the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award for Best Comedy Performance for his role in Charley's Aunt.
National Eisteddfod of Wales (held in Lampeter)
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Aled Rhys Wiliam
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - John Roderick Rees
National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - John Idris Owen
Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen - Richard Cyril Hughes, Castell Cyfaddawd

Football - Ian Rush becomes the first Welshman to win the European Golden Boot award.
Horse racing - Neil Doughty wins the Grand National on Hallo Dandy.

14 January – Ivan Lloyd-Phillips, colonial administrator, 73
26 January – Nathan Rocyn-Jones, doctor, international rugby player and President of the WRU, 81
10 February – Ioan Evans, politician, 56
11 April – John Roland Lloyd Thomas, clergyman and teacher, 76
15 April – Tommy Cooper, comedian, 63 (heart attack on stage)
18 June - Idris Foster, academic, 72
22 June – Dill Jones, jazz pianist, 60
6 July – Denys Val Baker, British writer and promoter of Celtic culture, 66
5 August – Richard Burton, actor, 58 (brain haemorrhage)
27 August – Amabel Williams-Ellis, writer
23 September – Daniel Granville West, politician, 80
12 October – Sir Anthony Berry, politician and son of James Berry, 1st Viscount Kemsley, 59 (killed in Brighton hotel bombing)
11 December (in Hendon) – Will Paynter, miners' leader, 81
date unknown - Arthur Fear, operatic bass-baritone

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