Timeline

Question 1

(DATE)
Welsh Sunday Closing Act

Answer 1

1881
pubs closed on sundays

Question 2

(DATE)
foundation of the first Cymru Fydd branch

Answer 2

1887

Question 3

(DATE)
David Lloyd George becomes MP for Caernarfon Boroughs

Answer 3

1890

Question 4

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

Answer 4

1881

Question 5

(DATE)
Foundation of the University of Wales

Answer 5

1893

Question 6

(DATE)
Effective end of Cymru Fydd

Answer 6

1896

Question 7

(DATE)
Formation of South Wales Miners Federation

Answer 7

1898

Question 8

(DATE + meaning)
Penrhyn lockout

Answer 8

1900-1903
slate quarry workers protest

Question 9

Fist Labour MP for Wales (1900)

Answer 9

Kair Hardie

Question 10

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

Answer 10

1901

Question 11

(DATE)
Religious revival

Answer 11

1904-1905

Question 12

(DATE)
Creation of the Welsh Board of Education

Answer 12

1907

Question 13

(DATE)
Opening of the National Museum of Wales

Answer 13

1907
Cardiff

Question 14

(DATE)
Opened the NAtional Library of Wales

Answer 14

1907
Aberystwyth

Question 15

(DATE)
David Lloyd George became Chancellor of the Exchequer

Answer 15

1908

Question 16

What happened at Caernarfon Castle in 1911

Answer 16

Investiture of the Prince of Wales

Question 17

(DATE + conclusion)
Tonypardy riots

Answer 17

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

Question 18

(DATE + TITLE)
First Welsh Novel in English

Answer 18

“My People” by Caradog Evans
1915

Question 19

(DATE)
The first flowering of Welsh writing in English

Answer 19

1915-1945

Question 20

(DATE)
David Lloyd George becomes Prime Minister

Answer 20

1916

Question 21

(DATE)
Stop of the Church of Wales

Answer 21

1920

Question 22

(DATE)
Copper smelting ceasing in Swansea

Answer 22

1921

Question 23

(DATE + PLACE)
BBC Wales start

Answer 23

1925, Bangor

Question 24

(DATE)
Plaid Genedlaethol Cymru founding

Answer 24

1925

Question 25

(DATE) General Strike and Miners' lock-out

Answer 25

1926

Question 26

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

Answer 26

1926

Question 27

(DATE) First hunger march against unemployment

Answer 27

1927

Question 28

(DATE) Heihgt of unemployment in the South + emigration

Answer 28

1930s

Question 29

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

Answer 29

1936

Question 30

(DATE) The Welsh-only rule at Eisteddfod

Answer 30

1937

Question 31

(DATE + PLACE) Fisrt Welsh-only primary school

Answer 31

1939, Aberystwyth

Question 32

(DATE + AUTHOR) "How green was my valley"

Answer 32

1939 Richard Llywellyn

Question 33

(DATE + MEANING) Three Nights Blitz

Answer 33

1941 Bombing of Swansea

Question 34

(DATE) Radio Eisteddfod

Answer 34

1941

Question 35

(DATE + MEANING) The Welsh Courts Act

Answer 35

1942 Repealed the language clause of the 1536 Act of union

Question 36

(DATE) Establishment of the Welsh National Opera Company

Answer 36

1943

Question 37

(DATE) Education Act

Answer 37

1944

Question 38

(DATE) Foundation of the Welsh National Opera

Answer 38

1946

Question 39

(DATE) Nationalisation of coal & steel industries

Answer 39

1947

Question 40

(DATE + NAME) Foundation of the National Health Service

Answer 40

1948, Minister of Health - Aneurin Bevan

Question 41

(DATE) Establishment of the Welsh Joint Education

Answer 41

1949

Question 42

(DATE + MEANING) Beasley's civil disobedience

Answer 42

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

Question 43

(DATE + PLACE) Capital of Wales

Answer 43

1955 Cardiff

Question 44

(DATE) Ministry for Welsh Affairs

Answer 44

1951

Question 45

(DATE) The flooding of Tryweryn

Answer 45

1965

Question 46

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

Answer 46

1960s

Question 47

(DATE) Welsh Books Council

Answer 47

1961

Question 48

(DATE + PERSON) "Fate of the language" lecture on BBC

Answer 48

Saunders Lewis, 1962

Question 49

Community at Tryweryn

Answer 49

Capel Celyn

Question 50

The Welsh Language Society in Welsh:

Answer 50

Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg

Question 51

(DATE) Foundation of Cymdeithas yr Iaith Gymraeg

Answer 51

1962

Question 52

(DATE + CONSEWUENCES) Establishment of Mudiad Amddiffyn Cymru

Answer 52

1963 pacifist bombings (MAC)

Question 53

(DATE) Free Wales Army

Answer 53

1963

Question 54

(DATE) BBC Wales

Answer 54

1964

Question 55

(DATE + PERSON) First Plaid Cymru MP

Answer 55

1966 Gwynfor Evans

Question 56

(DATE) Aberfan disaster

Answer 56

1966

Question 57

(DATE) The Welsh language act (1960s)

Answer 57

1967

Question 58

(DATE) BBC Radio Cymru

Answer 58

1977

Question 59

(DATE) First devolution referendum

Answer 59

1979

Question 60

(DATE) Greenham march from Cardiff

Answer 60

1981 women's protest march against nuclear missles

Question 61

(DATE) S4C starts transmissions

Answer 61

1982

Question 62

(DATE) Miners' Strike

Answer 62

1984-1985

Question 63

(DATE) Institute of Welsh Affairs founded

Answer 63

1987

Question 64

(DATE) Welsh Language Act (1990s)

Answer 64

1993

Question 65

(DATE) Welsh language board created

Answer 65

1993

Question 66

(DATE) The arts council of Wales established

Answer 66

1994

Question 67

(DATE) Cool Cymru

Answer 67

1990s

Question 68

(DATE) The second devolution referendum

Answer 68

1997

Question 69

(DATE) Government of Wales Act

Answer 69

1998

Question 70

(DATE) First elections to the Welsh Assembly

Answer 70

1999

Question 71

(DATE) The Government of Wales act

Answer 71

2006

Question 72

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

Answer 72

2008 Tower Colliery (Cynon Valley)

Question 73

(DATE + EXPLANATION) Cymraeg 2050

Answer 73

2017 A million Welsh speakers strategy

Question 74

(DATE) The Wales Act (modern)

Answer 74

2017