2000 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 2000 to Wales and its people.

Incumbents

• Prince of Wales - Charles, Prince of Wales
• Princess of Wales - vacant
• First Minister - Rhodri Morgan
• Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales - Dafydd Elis-Thomas
• Secretary of State for Wales - Paul Murphy
• Archbishop of Wales - Rowan Williams

Events

• 15 February - Wales child abuse scandal: Sir Ronald Waterhouse publishes the report of his inquiry into abuse in children's homes in north Wales.
• August - National Eisteddfod of Wales held at Llanelli.
• 15 October - Dedication of the new organ at St David's Cathedral.
• 16 October - Rhodri Morgan's official title as leader of the Welsh Assembly is changed from First Secretary to First Minister.
• 18 November - Catherine Zeta-Jones marries Michael Douglas at the Plaza Hotel, New York City.
• The Cardiff Bay Development Corporation is wound up, having achieved its main objective of regenerating the former docklands of Cardiff.

Arts and literature

• Sian 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.

Awards

• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Chair - Llion Jones
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Crown - Dylan Iorwerth
• National Eisteddfod of Wales: Prose Medal - Eurig Wyn, Tri Mochyn Bach
• Wales Book of the Year:
  • English language: Sheenagh Pugh - Stonelight
  • Welsh language: Gwyneth Lewis - Y Llofrudd Iaith
• Gwobr Goffa Daniel Owen - Geraint V. Jones, Cur y Nos

New books

• Trezza Azzopardi - The Hiding Place
• Ruth Bidgood - Singing to Wolves
• Jon Gower - Big Fish
• Sheenagh Pugh - Stonelight
• Owen Sheers - The Blue Book

Music

• Richard Churches - Requiem Mass
• Larry Goves - walking underground

Film

English-language films

• The Testimony of Taliesin Jones with Jonathan Pryce and Matthew Rhys
• Rancid Aluminium, based on the novel by James Hawes, with Rhys Ifans, Keith Allen and Brian Hibbard.

Welsh-language films

• Moth (S4C)

Broadcasting

English-language television

• Rob Brydon stars in Marion and Geoff

Sport

• Golf - Phillip Price is ranked 8th in the world.
• Snooker - Mark Williams defeats Matthew Stevens in an all-Welsh final at the World Snooker Championship.

Births

• 8 August - Dylan Michael Douglas, son of Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta-Jones

Deaths

• 19 February - Josef Herman, artist
• 20 May - David Pearce, boxer
• 28 May - Donald Davies, computer scientist and inventor
• 30 May - Doris Hare, actress
• 17 September - Paula Yates, television presenter (born in Colwyn Bay)
• 25 September - R. S. Thomas, poet
• 30 September - Howard Winstone, boxing champion
• 11 November - Sir Alun Talfan Davies, judge