1945 in Wales

This article is about the particular significance of the year 1945 to Wales and its people.

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Shortly before his death, former prime minister David Lloyd George is created Earl Lloyd George of Dwyfor and Viscount Gwynedd. He never takes his seat in the House of Lords.
18 January - Winds of 113 mph are recorded at St Anne's Head, Pembrokeshire.
7 March - The German submarine U-1302 is sunk off St David's Head.
10 March - Sixty-seven German prisoners-of-war tunnel to freedom from Island Farm Camp 198 in Bridgend --the biggest escape attempt by German P.O.W.s in the UK during the Second World War.
30 April - The German submarines U-242 and U-325 are sunk off the Skerries.
15 May - At the Neath by-election, a Trotskyist candidate contests the constituency, the first time in any UK election.
5 July - In the United Kingdom general election:
- For the last time in a General Election, a candidate in Wales is elected unopposed - Will John, Labour MP for Rhondda West.
- Ambrose Bebb stands as a Plaid Cymru Parliamentary candidate.
- Hugh Dalton becomes the new Chancellor of the Exchequer.
8 October - Rudolf Hess is flown to Nuremberg to stand trial, ending his three-year internment at Maindiff Court Military Hospital, Abergavenny.
Closure of the Benallt manganese mine, near Aberdaron.
Clement Davies becomes leader of the Liberal Party.
Newspaper publisher Gomer Berry is created Viscount Kemsley.
Explorer Edward Evans is created Baron Mountevans.
Broadcaster Wynford Vaughan-Thomas is awarded the Croix de Guerre for his exploits in following the invading troops into France during 1944.

Ray Milland wins an Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in The Lost Weekend.

Football - The first post-war match between Wales and England ends in a 1 - 0 victory for Wales.

11 January - Caradoc Evans, author
17 January - Reginald Clarry MP, politician
26 March - David Lloyd George MP, politician
11 June - Owen Evans MP, politician
15 November - John Lloyd Williams, botanist
date unknown
- Sir Thomas Lewis, cardiologist
- Edward Prosser Rhys, journalist and poet
- Sir William Thomas, industrialist, after whom Trethomas was named