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| 1800 |
| | Welsh industrialist Robert Owen takes charge of a mill at New Lanark and develops it as an experiment in paternalistic socialism | |
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| 1804 |
| | Richard Trevithick runs the first locomotive on rails, pulling heavy weights a distance of 9 miiles (15 km) near Merthyr Tydfil in Wales | |
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| 1817 |
| | On the death of Princess Charlotte, not one of seven princes has an heir to succeed to the British throne in the next generation | |
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| 1826 |
| | Scottish engineer Thomas Telford completes two suspension bridges in Wales, at Conwy and over the Menai Strait | |
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| 1850 |
| | British engineer Robert Stephenson completes a box-girder railway bridge over the Menai Strait, between Anglesey and mainland Wales | |
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| 1861 |
| | An official National Eisteddfod is held for the first time in Wales, in Aberdare | |
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| 1874 |
| | Major Walter Wingfield secures a patent for Sphairistike, a game he has developed at his home in Wales, from which lawn tennis evolves | |
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| 1900 |
| | Keir Hardie is returned to parliament for Merthyr Tydfil, beginning a long and close link between the Labour party and Wales. | |
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| c. 1900 |
| | The Welsh painter Augustus John becomes Britain's most famous bohemian | |
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| 1906 |
| | Cardiff's new Civic Centre is launched with the completion of the City Hall and Law Courts, designed by Lanchester, Stewart and Rickards | |
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