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From the "Timeline" presentation -I can guess these are the most important dates

1
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(DATE)
Welsh Sunday Closing Act

A

1881
pubs closed on sundays

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(DATE)
foundation of the first Cymru Fydd branch

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1887

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(DATE)
David Lloyd George becomes MP for Caernarfon Boroughs

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1890

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(DATE)
19th c National Census
(questioning the linguistic situation in Wales)

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1881

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(DATE)
Foundation of the University of Wales

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1893

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(DATE)
Effective end of Cymru Fydd

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1896

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(DATE)
Formation of South Wales Miners Federation

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1898

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(DATE + meaning)
Penrhyn lockout

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1900-1903
slate quarry workers protest

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Fist Labour MP for Wales (1900)

A

Kair Hardie

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(DATE)
National Census in which Welsh became a minority language

A

1901

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(DATE)
Religious revival

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1904-1905

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(DATE)
Creation of the Welsh Board of Education

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1907

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(DATE)
Opening of the National Museum of Wales

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1907
Cardiff

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(DATE)
Opened the NAtional Library of Wales

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1907
Aberystwyth

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(DATE)
David Lloyd George became Chancellor of the Exchequer

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1908

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16
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What happened at Caernarfon Castle in 1911

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Investiture of the Prince of Wales

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17
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(DATE + conclusion)
Tonypardy riots

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1910
Churchill sent troops to end the strike, radicalisation of miners (disputes with the police)

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(DATE + TITLE)
First Welsh Novel in English

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“My People” by Caradog Evans
1915

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(DATE)
The first flowering of Welsh writing in English

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1915-1945

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(DATE)
David Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister

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1916

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(DATE)
Stop of the Church of Wales

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1920

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(DATE)
Copper smelting ceasing in Swansea

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1921

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(DATE + PLACE)
BBC Wales start

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1925, Bangor

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(DATE)
Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru founding

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1925

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(DATE)
General Strike and Miners’ lock-out

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1926

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(DATE)
foundation of the South Wales Miners’ Industrial Union

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1926

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(DATE)
First hunger march against unemployment

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1927

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(DATE)
Heihgt of unemployment in the South + emigration

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1930s

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(DATE)
Fire in Lly^n (bombing school)

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1936

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(DATE)
The Welsh-only rule at Eisteddfod

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(DATE + PLACE)
Fisrt Welsh-only primary school

A

1939,
Aberystwyth

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(DATE + AUTHOR)
“How green was my valley”

A

1939
Richard Llywellyn

33
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(DATE + MEANING)
Three Nights Blitz

A

1941
Bombing of Swansea

34
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(DATE)
Radio Eisteddfod

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(DATE + MEANING)
The Welsh Courts Act

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1942
Repealed the language clause of the 1536 Act of union

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(DATE)
Establishment of the Welsh National Opera Company

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(DATE)
Education Act

38
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(DATE)
Foundation of the Welsh National Opera

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(DATE)
Nationalisation of coal & steel industries

40
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(DATE + NAME)
Foundation of the National Health Service

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1948,
Minister of Health - Aneurin Bevan

41
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(DATE)
Establishment of the Welsh Joint Education

42
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(DATE + MEANING)
Beasley’s civil disobedience

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1950s
Trefor & Eileen Beasley campaigned for the gov. to let them use Welsh in documents

43
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(DATE + PLACE)
Capital of Wales

A

1955
Cardiff

44
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(DATE)
Ministry for Welsh Affairs

45
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(DATE)
The flooding of Tryweryn

46
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(DATE)
The second flowering of WWE (Welsh Writing in English)

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(DATE)
Welsh Books Council

48
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(DATE + PERSON)
“Fate of the language” lecture on BBC

A

Saunders Lewis,
1962

49
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Community at Tryweryn

A

Capel Celyn

50
Q

The Welsh Language Society in Welsh:

A

Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg

51
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(DATE)
Foundation of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg

52
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(DATE + CONSEWUENCES)
Establishment of Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru

A

1963
pacifist bombings (MAC)

53
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(DATE)
Free Wales Army

54
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(DATE)
BBC Wales

55
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(DATE + PERSON)
First Plaid Cymru MP

A

1966
Gwynfor Evans

56
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(DATE)
Aberfan disaster

57
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(DATE)
The Welsh language act (1960s)

58
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(DATE)
BBC Radio Cymru

59
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(DATE)
First devolution referendum

60
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(DATE)
Greenham march from Cardiff

A

1981
women’s protest march against nuclear missles

61
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(DATE)
S4C starts transmissions

62
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(DATE)
Miners’ Strike

63
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(DATE)
Institute of Welsh Affairs founded

64
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(DATE)
Welsh Language Act (1990s)

65
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(DATE)
Welsh language board created

66
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(DATE)
The arts council of Wales established

67
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(DATE)
Cool Cymru

68
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(DATE)
The second devolution referendum

69
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(DATE)
Government of Wales Act

70
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(DATE)
First elections to the Welsh Assembly

71
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(DATE)
The Government of Wales act

72
Q

(DATE + NAME)
Closure of the last deep coal mine

A

2008
Tower Colliery (Cynon Valley)

73
Q

(DATE + EXPLANATION)
Cymraeg 2050

A

2017
A million Welsh speakers strategy

74
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(DATE)
The Wales Act (modern)

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