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The earliest known item of human remains discovered in modern-day Wales is a Neanderthal jawbone, found at the Bontnewydd Palaeolithic site in the valley of the River Elwy in North Wales; it dates from about 230,000 years before present (BP) in the Lower Palaeolithic period, [1] and from then, there have been skeletal remains found of the Paleolithic Age man in multiple regions of Wales ...
Laws in Wales Acts replace Welsh law with English law and replace the Marcher Lordships with newly established counties; Wales is unified with England [155] 1536 Dissolution of the monasteries : a great number of abbeys and priories in Wales are suppressed over the next four years, including Monmouth Priory , [ 156 ] Neath Abbey , [ 157 ] and ...
Welsh history timeline from 447AD to 954AD [3] Late Middle Ages Brut y Tywysogion: 1330: Middle Welsh translation of lost Latin work: Chronicle of the Princes: Continues Welsh history from the end of History Regum Britanniae beginning with the death of Cadwaladr Fendigaid in 682. Ends with a later addition of the period 1282-1332. [2] An ...
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Although Welsh is a minority language, and thus threatened by the dominance of English, support for the language grew during the second half of the 20th century, along with the rise of Welsh nationalism in the form of groups such as the political party Plaid Cymru and Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg (Welsh Language Society).
This is an incomplete list of the wars and battles between the Anglo-Saxons who later formed into the Kingdom of England and the Britons (the pre-existing Brythonic population of Britain south of the Antonine Wall who came to be known later by the English as the Welsh), as well as the conflicts between the English and Welsh in subsequent centuries.
Welsh coal strike of 1898; Welsh gold; The Welsh History Review; Welsh hook; Welsh Marches; Welsh Not; Welsh rebellions against English rule; Welsh settlement in the Americas; Welsh surnames; Welsh units; Welsh Wig; Wledig; Women's Archive Wales; Wrexham Archives and Local Studies
Wales as a nation was defined in opposition to later English settlement and incursions into the island of Great Britain. In the early middle ages, the people of Wales continued to think of themselves as Britons, the people of the whole island, but over the course of time one group of these Britons became isolated by the geography of the western peninsula, bounded by the sea and English neighbours.