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This is a timeline of Welsh history, comprising important legal and territorial changes, and political events in Wales This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
The Annals of Wales 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 ...
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 ...
2 April – William Lort Mansel, Master of Trinity College, Cambridge (died 1820) [11] 8 October – William Jones, Welsh-descended Governor of Rhode Island (died 1822) 10 December – Richard Thomas, Anglican priest and antiquarian (died 1780) date unknown. Christopher Bassett, Methodist clergyman (died 1784) [12] Henry Davies, Baptist ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Pages in category "Welsh history timelines" ... Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales (2021) Timeline of the COVID-19 ...
Janet Burton is professor of medieval history at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. She researches medieval monasticism, religious orders and congregations. She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, the Royal Historical Society, and the Learned Society of Wales. She initiated the Monastic Wales project in July 2007 to research ...
9 March - The first known photograph is taken in Wales, of Margam Castle by Calvert Jones. [25] 12 April - The Taff Vale Railway is extended to Merthyr Tydfil; 26 July - The proprietors of The Skerries Lighthouse off Anglesey, the last privately owned light in the British Isles, are awarded £444,984 in compensation for its sale to Trinity House.
The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.