1991 in Wales

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Incumbents

6 January - A Maltese tanker, the Kimya, capsizes off the Anglesey coast. Ten crew members are drowned.
January - Two Welsh soldiers are among those killed in the first Gulf War.
4 April - Peter Hain is elected as MP for Neath in a by-election caused by the death of the sitting MP, Donald Coleman.
16 May - Huw Edwards is elected as MP for Monmouth in a by-election caused by the death of the sitting MP, Sir John Stradling Thomas.
23 May - A memorial to Gwenllian ferch Gruffydd is dedicated at Kidwelly Castle.^[1]
19 July - Dean Saunders, 27-year-old Welsh international striker, becomes the most expensive player to be signed by a British club when a £2.9million fee takes him from Derby County to Liverpool, who have broken the record fee in British football for the third time in four years.^[2]
August–September - Cardiff Ely Bread Riots: A dispute between two shopkeepers escalates into four consecutive nights of rioting in the Ely district of Cardiff.
16 October - Manchester United winger Ryan Giggs, who turns 18 at the end of the following month, becomes the youngest full international for the Welsh national team against Germany in Nuremberg.^[3]
25 October - Official opening of Conwy Crossing (immersed tube tunnel) to road traffic as part of A55 Conwy Bypass.
Welshman Eric Jones is one of a team of four who make the first hot-air balloon flight over Mount Everest.
The Welsh Office proposes an M4 relief road between Magor and Castleton.^[4]

August - Simultaneous translation facilities are made available for the first time at the National Eisteddfod of Wales.
1 September - Cantorion Colin Jones is founded in Wrexham.
The first Pacific Northwest Welsh Weekend is held at Seattle.
Wyn Calvin becomes the first Welshman to be elected King Rat of the Order of Water Rats.

Football
- 5 June - Wales defeat Germany in the UEFA Euro 1992 qualifying tournament.
Golf - Ian Woosnam wins the US Masters at Augusta, Georgia, becoming the first Welshman to win a major tournament.
Rugby union - Neil Jenkins plays his first rugby match for Wales, at the age of 19.

14 January - Donald Coleman, politician, 65
30 January - Rhys Lloyd, Baron Lloyd of Kilgerran, politician, 83
10 February - Rowe Harding, rugby player, 89
19 February - Tom Rees, Wales international rugby player, 77
24 March - Maudie Edwards, actress and singer, 84
29 March - John Stradling Thomas, politician, 65
15 May - Ronald Lacey, English actor of Welsh descent, 55
12 August - Edward George Bowen, CBE, physicist, 80
23 August - Innes Lloyd, TV producer, 66
26 August - John Petts, artist, 77
31 August - Idwal Rees, Wales rugby union captain, 81
October - Seymour Morris, footballer, 78
13 October - Donald Houston, actor, 67
5 November - Gwenlyn Parry, dramatist, 59
15 December - Ray Smith, actor, 55
22 December - Jim Lang, Wales rugby union player, 82
date unknown
- Robert Roland Hughes, neurologist
- Evan Roberts, conservationist

1991 in Europe

Sovereign states	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czechoslovakia Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia and Montenegro Slovakia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom Vatican City Yugoslavia

States with limited recognition	Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Northern Cyprus South Ossetia Transnistria

Dependencies, colonies and other territories	Åland Faroe Islands Gibraltar Guernsey Isle of Man Jersey

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