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24th March
24th March
Born this day, 1944 in Aberystwyth
Stephen Jones FRS , is the best-known genetics expert in Britain and is also a telvision presenter and a prize-winning...
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25th March
25th March
On March 25th 1807, the Mumbles to Swansea Railroad became the first-fee paying railroad in the world.
At the beginning of the Nineteenth Century there...
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26th March
26th March
Today is the feast day of St Govan
Saint Govan's Head is situated near Bosherston, in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park.
Saint Govan - Died 586. It...
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27th March
27th March
March 1997 saw the launch of the "Welsh Language in Chubut" project, which was aimed at promoting and developing the Welsh language in the Chubut region...
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28th March
28th March
Born this day, 1942 in Tredegar
Neil Gordon Kinnock - MP and Leader of the Labour Party, whose period as Leader of the Opposition between 1983 and...
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29th March
29th March
Born this day, 1913 in Cardiff.
R.S.Thomas - poet and priest who was noted for his nationalism, spirituality and deep dislike of the anglicisation of...
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30th March
30th March
Hywel Harris underwent a religious conversion on this day, 1735 while listening to a sermon by the Rev. Pryce Davies in Talgarth parish church. Harris then...
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31st March
31st March
On 31st March 1406, Owain Glyndwr composed the famous Pennal Letter to the French King, Charles VI, setting out his plans for an independent Wales....
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1st April
1st April
On 1st April 1977 , Richard Booth, a local second-hand bookshop owner, declared Hay-on-Wye to be an 'independent kingdom' with himself as its...
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2nd April
2nd April
The government undertook a census of everyone living in Wales and England on Sunday 2 April 1911 . The results of the 1911 census gives us some...
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3rd April
3rd April
Outlaw Jesse James, was shot dead this day, 1882. (Both he and his brother Frank considered themselves Welsh)
Jesse James was born in Clay County,...
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4th April
4th April
Born on this day 1896 in Llangollen.
William Stanley Gwynn Williams , was a musician, lecturer, editor, composer, broadcaster and author....
