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1987: The Cardiff Bay Development Corporation was established to transform derelict land that had been Cardiff docks into Cardiff Bay. [5] 1988: The new County Hall was completed in Cardiff Bay. [5] The Grangetown Link Road opens. [34] 1989: Cardiff Athletics Stadium was opened in Leckwith. [5] 1995: The Butetown Link Road opens. [34]
USA: National World War I Museum. "World War One Timeline". UK: BBC. "New Zealand and the First World War (timeline)". New Zealand Government. "Timeline: Australia in the First World War, 1914-1918". Australian War Memorial. "World War I: Declarations of War from around the Globe". Law Library of Congress.
Cardiff Docks became a strategic bombing target for the Luftwaffe as it was one of the biggest coal ports in the world. [ 36 ] [ 37 ] Consequently, it and the surrounding area were heavily bombed . Llandaff Cathedral , amongst many other civilian buildings caught in the raids, was damaged by the bombing in 1941.
Cardiff Bay played a major part in Cardiff’s development by being the means of exporting coal from the South Wales Valleys to the rest of the world, helping to power the industrial age. The coal mining industry helped fund the building of Cardiff into the capital city of Wales and helped the Third Marquis of Bute , who owned the docks, become ...
[38] [39] Bomb damage during the Cardiff Blitz in World War II included the devastation of Llandaff Cathedral, and in the immediate postwar years the city's link with the Bute family came to an end. The city was proclaimed capital city of Wales on 20 December 1955, by a written reply by the Home Secretary Gwilym Lloyd George.
1 June: Official opening of Cardiff Bay Barrage, one of the largest civil engineering projects in Europe. [312] July: Welsh communities pressure group Cymuned (meaning "Community") is launched at a meeting in Mynytho on the Llŷn Peninsula; [313] the group aims to protect and foster the Welsh language and way of life. [314] 16 September
She wanted a facility which could rival the new Cardiff Docks which were being constructed a few miles to the north. She was joined in the venture by several prominent politicians and businessmen and, in 1858, engineer John Hawkshaw designed the dock, curving along the south bank of the River Ely. Work on Penarth Dock began in 1859. [1] [2]
The Welsh National War Memorial (Welsh: Cofeb Ryfel Genedlaethol Cymru) is situated in Alexandra Gardens, Cathays Park, Cardiff. The memorial was designed by Sir Ninian Comper and unveiled on 12 June 1928 by the Prince of Wales .