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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 Welsh language was thus formally recognised as a legitimate language in legal and administrative contexts for the first time in English law. [179] The proportion of the Welsh population able to speak the Welsh language was declining, falling from just under 50% in 1901 to 43.5% in 1911 and reaching a low of 18.9% in 1981. It has risen ...
A Welsh Classical Dictionary: People in History and Legend Up to about A.D. 1000. National Library of Wales. ISBN 0907158730. 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 ...
Timeline of Welsh history; A. List of Anglo-Welsh wars; C. Timeline of Cardiff history; Timeline of the COVID-19 pandemic in Wales (2020) Timeline of the COVID-19 ...
The proportion of the Welsh population able to speak the Welsh language fell from just under 50% in 1901 to 43.5% in 1911, and continued to fall to a low of 18.9% in 1981. [48] The results of the 2001 Census showed an increase in the number of Welsh speakers to 21% of the population aged 3 and older, compared with 18.7% in 1991 and 19.0% in 1981.
1914 in Wales - Welsh Home Rule Bill fails; 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 ...
December – Richard de Clare, 6th Earl of Gloucester, keeps a lavish Christmas court at his castle on the Welsh borders. 1252 July – the earliest known document issued by Dafydd ap Gruffydd is drawn up; in it, he is referred to as 'lord of Cymydmaen'. From this point on Dafydd plays an increasingly important role in Welsh politics. 1255
Owain Gwynedd musters an assembly of Welsh leaders at Corwen, in opposition to King Henry II of England, which is attended by Owain's brother Cadwaladr. Cadwallon ap Madog and his brother Einion ap Madog, Owain Cyfeiliog and others. Owain Gwynedd also begins diplomacy with France - the first Welsh ruler known to have done so. 1164