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@huw-llywelyn-rees
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10th May
10th May
On 10th May 1837, 21 men and boys were killed when the Plas yr Argoed colliery near Mold, flooded. Among those killed were the father and two...
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11th May
11th May
The Cross of Neith was a sacred relic taken from the home of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd at Aberconwy by Edward I, following the death of Llywelyn and the...
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12th May
12th May
On 12th May 1999, the office of First Minister of Wales was formed as the leader of the Welsh Assembly, the post was originally known as First Secretary...
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13th May
13th May
On 13th May 1839, the first of the Rebecca Riots took place at Efailwen near St Clears
The Rebecca riots took place between 1839 and 1843, in the rural...
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14th May
14th May
Born this day 1771 in Newtown, Powys
Robert Owen , social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism (the beginnings of socialism)...
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15th May
15th May
The Treaty of Gloucester 15th May 1240
At which Dafydd ap Llywelyn (the son of Llywelyn the Great) was forced to do homage to Henry III.
On...
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16th May
16th May
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path was opened this day 1970 by Wynford Vaughan Thomas
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path is walking path around the coastline of...
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17th May
17th May
On 17th May 1965, thirty one miners were killed in a mining accident at the Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, Rhondda, the last major mining disaster in...
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17th May
17th May
On 17th May 1965, thirty one miners were killed in a mining accident at the Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, Rhondda, the last major mining disaster in...
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17th May
17th May
On 17th May 1965, thirty one miners were killed in a mining accident at the Cambrian Colliery, Clydach Vale, Rhondda, the last major mining disaster in...
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18th May
18th May
May 18th is the day each year that the "Message of Peace and Goodwill" from the young people of Wales to young people around the World is announced....
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19th May
19th May
On this day in 1935 T.E.Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) was fatally injured in a motorbike crash in Dorset.
Thomas Edward Lawrence, born in Tremadog,...
