1940 in Wales

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The Urdd changes its policy to include 16 to 25-year-olds.
January 27 - A freak ice storm brings down telephone and electricity lines in many parts of Wales.
March 3 - The steamer Cato is damaged by a mine off Nash Point and 13 of the crew are killed.
May 8 - Three German Heinkel 111s crash in separate incidents over Wales: one near Wrexham, one at Malpas in Denbighshire, and one at Bagillt, Flint. In all nine crew are killed and four captured.
July 10 - Ten people are killed in an air raid on Swansea Docks.
August 11 - Seventeen people are killed in an air raid on Manselton, Swansea.
August 14 - Three German Heinkel 111s are shot down during an air-raid on Cardiff, and another over North Wales after a raid on RAF Hawarden.
August 22 - A steamer, the Thorold, is sunk by German aircraft off the Skerries. Ten crew are killed.
September 2 - 33 people are killed in an air raid on Swansea.
September 3 - Eleven people are killed in an air raid on Cardiff.
September 4 - A German Junkers 88 crashes near Machynlleth. Four crew and a Gestapo officer are captured.
September 13 - A German Heinkel 111 crashes into a house in Newport, Monmouthshire.
October 20 - Communist minister and poet Thomas Evan Nicholas ("Niclas y Glais") and his son are arrested and interned for "endeavouring to impede recruitment to HM Forces".
Gwilym Owen Williams becomes chaplain of St David's College, Lampeter.