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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 ...
1913 in Wales - 439 men killed at Senghenydd in the worst disaster in British mining history; 1912 in Wales - National miners' strike; 1911 in Wales - Investiture of the future Edward VIII of the United Kingdom as Prince of Wales; 1910 in Wales - First general election in which all Welsh constituencies are contested
Year Date Event c. 31,000 BC Earliest reliably-dated "modern human" burial with artefacts, first discovered in the 1820s on the Gower in Swansea.After the Red Lady of Paviland bones were recalibrated in 2009, [1] the (male) Homo sapiens bones were determined to be from 33,000 years ago.
biography.wales (Dictionary of Welsh Biography) Davies, John (1994). A History of Wales. Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140145816. Encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. 2008. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6. Lloyd, John Edward (1912). A History of Wales from the Earliest Times to the Edwardian Conquest. Longmans, Green, and Co. Turvey, Roger (2010).
History portal; Years in Wales. Subcategories. This category has the following 15 subcategories, out of 15 total. / Disestablishments in Wales by year (120 C) ...
The modern history of Wales starts in 1800 and continues until the present day. In the 19th century, South Wales became heavily industrialised with ironworks; this, along with the spread of coal mining to the Cynon and Rhondda valleys from the 1840s, led to an increase in population. The social effects of industrialisation resulted in armed ...
Modern history of Wales (4 C, 1 P) A. Archaeological sites in Wales by period (5 C) Architecture in Wales by period or style (10 C, 1 P) C. ... Years in Wales (15 C ...
Calennig was a tradition where children carried a decorated apple, pierced with three sticks and decorated with a sprig of box and hazelnuts on new year's day. Children would sing a verse and were often gifted with money or food. [5] Children in Wales are still given New Year's money on this day as part of the Calennig tradition. 14 January Hen ...