Events Tagged: "Wales"

12 events with tag "Wales"

450 ID: 4172
Dragons fight beneath Dinas Emrys - red dragon (Welsh) battles white dragon (Saxon) in underground lake, Merlin explains prophecy (Historia Brittonum)
ID: 4172
Dinas Emrys
560 ID: 4182
St. Samson of Dol slays dragon - Welsh bishop kills dragon in Cornwall cave while traveling to Brittany (Celtic hagiographies)
ID: 4182
Dol-de-Bretagne
Cornwall
784 ID: 2622
Offa's Dyke construction - massive earthwork marking Welsh border, 150 miles long, 20 feet high
ID: 2622
927 ID: 2560
Athelstan receives submission of Scottish and Welsh kings - first king to rule all England
ID: 2560
York
1277 ID: 2409
First Welsh War - Edward I invades Wales, Llywelyn ap Gruffydd submits, English law imposed
ID: 2409
1282 ID: 2410
Second Welsh War begins - Llywelyn killed, his brother Dafydd captured and executed as traitor
ID: 2410
1284 ID: 2411
Statute of Rhuddlan - Wales annexed to England, Edward's son born at Caernarfon presented as Prince of Wales
ID: 2411
Caernarfon Castle
1326 ID: 2428
November 16, 1326
Capture of Edward II - found hiding in Wales, imprisoned while Isabella and Mortimer rule
ID: 2428
1400 ID: 2466
Owen Glendower proclaimed Prince of Wales - Welsh rebellion begins, lasts 15 years
ID: 2466
1485 ID: 2517
August 7, 1485
Henry Tudor lands at Milford Haven - with 2,000 French mercenaries, marches through Wales gathering support
ID: 2517
1702 ID: 4193
Flying serpents seen over Pembrokeshire - multiple witnesses report winged serpents in daylight (Welsh newspaper accounts)
ID: 4193
1870 ID: 977
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales established - creates CA designation
ID: 977