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Timeline of Wales

Important Welsh people, dates and events
The Picts and the Celts
The Kings of Wales
Edward I launched a massive English invasion of Wales
Wales became incorporated into the Kingdom Of England under the Statute of Rhuddlan

Timeline of Wales

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70 AD

 

Wales is occupied by the Romans

383

 

The concept of the Welsh nation when the Picts and Celts invade the land

440

 

Britain, abandoned by the Romans, passed into the power of the Saxons

784

 

The King Of Mercia builds Offa's Dyke as a boundary between England and Wales

844

 

844-877 The Reign Of Rhodri Mawr (Rhodri The Great) who united all of Wales under his rule

890

 

Welsh rulers acknowledge Alfred Of Wessex (Alfred the Great) as their ruler

1066

 

1066-77 Following the defeat of the English King Harold at the Battle of Hastings the Normans take control of Wales

1120

 

1120-1129 "Historia Regum Britanniae" was written by Geoffrey Of Monmouth and details the Arthurian Legend of King Arthur. This provided the Welsh with a claim to the sovereignty of the whole island of Britain of which the Tudors took advantage

1137

 

The Reign of Owain Gwynedd (1137-1170 )

1169

 

According to Welsh legend Prince Madog Of Gwynedd, landed in Alabama and travelled up the Missouri

1204

 

Prince Llywelyn Ap Iorwerth (1173-1240) married Joan, the daughter of King John Of England

1240

 

1240 Dafydd ap Llywelyn (c. 1208 – February 25, 1246) was Prince of Gwynedd from 1240 to 1246 who had two sons of Gruffydd, Llywelyn ap Gruffydd and Owain ap Gruffydd,

1277

 

King Edward branded Llywelyn ap Gruffyd as "a rebel and disturber of the peace" and declared his lands forfeit

1278

 

Edward I had launched a massive invasion of Wales, re-conquering South Wales and defeating Llywelyn ap Gruffyd and North Wales. Llywelyn ap Gruffyd was forced to accept the peace of Aberconwy. Edward commissioned the building of four major castles in Wales - Flint, Rhuddlan, Builth and Aberystwyth

1282

 

Llywelyn ap Gruffyd mounted a second Welsh rebellion with his brother David. Llywelyn ap Gruffyd was killed in battle and his brother David was captured and executed.

1284

 

Wales became incorporated into The Kingdom Of England under the Statute of Rhuddlan

1485

 

The Battle Of Bosworth ended the English Wars of the Roses when Henry Tudor defeated Richard III. Henry Tudor claimed Welsh descent through Owain Tudor of Penmynedd in Anglesey who had secretly married Catherine, widow of King Henry V. Their son, Edmund Tudor fathered Henry Tudor, who became King Henry VII of England and fulfilled the old prophesy that one day a Welsh Monarch would rule the whole of Britain

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