{"slug": "anglesey", "label": "Anglesey", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglesey", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q168159", "qid": "Q168159", "description": "island in north-west Wales, UK", "entries": 32, "years": 27, "span": [60, 1939], "span_label": ["60 CE", "1939 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 11}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Isle of Anglesey"], "related": [{"slug": "wales", "label": "Wales", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "british-isles", "label": "British Isles", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "chester", "label": "Chester", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-gwynedd", "label": "Kingdom of Gwynedd", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "dublin", "label": "Dublin", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "irish-sea", "label": "Irish Sea", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "denmark", "label": "Denmark", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "wessex", "label": "Wessex", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thelwulf-king-of-wessex", "label": "Æthelwulf, King of Wessex", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rhodri-mawr", "label": "Rhodri Mawr", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "deheubarth", "label": "Deheubarth", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 60, "year_label": "60 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, Roman governor of Britain, captures the island of Mona (Anglesey), the last stronghold of the Druids.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372200754#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 60", "revid": 1372200754, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 61, "year_label": "61 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, Roman governor of Britain, captures the island of Mona (Anglesey), the last stronghold of the Druids.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364752182#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 61", "revid": 1364752182, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 77, "year_label": "77 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Agricola subdues the Ordovices in Wales, and pursues the remnants of the tribe to Anglesey, the holy island of the Druids.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371506529#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 77", "revid": 1371506529, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 410, "year_label": "410 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Raiders from Ireland, such as the Uí Liatháin and Laigin, harry the coasts of Wales. They plunder towns and capture slaves but later colonise large areas of what is called Gwynedd, in particular Llŷn, the coasts of Arllechwedd, Arfon and the Isle of Mona (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367642022#Roman_Empire", "title": "410", "revid": 1367642022, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 520, "year_label": "520 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Pabo Post Prydain of the Pennines (Northern England) abdicates his throne, and divides the kingdom between his two sons. He retires, as a hermit, to Anglesey.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364908909#Britannia", "title": "520", "revid": 1364908909, "section": "Events › By place › Britannia"}}, {"year": 626, "year_label": "626 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Edwin of Northumbria invades the Isle of Man and then Anglesey. King Cadwallon is defeated in battle, and is besieged on Puffin Island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352126742#Britain", "title": "626", "revid": 1352126742, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 816, "year_label": "816 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Hywel of Gwynedd is attacked by his brother Cynan on Anglesey (modern Wales), who is killed during the fighting (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941190#Britain", "title": "816", "revid": 1340941190, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 853, "year_label": "853 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Burgred of Mercia appeals to Æthelwulf, king of the West Saxons, for help against the rebellious Welsh king Rhodri the Great. Æthelwulf agrees to send help, and Wales is subdued as far north as Anglesey.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267072185#Britain", "title": "853", "revid": 1267072185, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 903, "year_label": "903 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Danish Vikings invade Anglesey after being driven out of Dublin (see 902). They fail to gain a foothold in Wales, and sail on to Chester.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346096497#Britain", "title": "903", "revid": 1346096497, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 918, "year_label": "918 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Kings Idwal Foel of Gwynedd and Hywel ap Cadell, and Prince Clydog of Deheubarth (Wales) submit to the overlordship of Edward the Elder. The Vikings raid Anglesey.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341509557#Britain", "title": "918", "revid": 1341509557, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1282, "year_label": "1282 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 6", "text": "November 6 – Battle of Moel-y-don: English forces led by Luke de Tany are ambushed and defeated by Welsh troops, while crossing over a floating bridge to the island of Anglesey.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359685493#Europe", "title": "1282", "revid": 1359685493, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1295, "year_label": "1295 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Construction begins on Beaumaris Castle in Anglesey under the direction of James of Saint George as part of the conquest of Wales by Edward I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368220335#Britain", "title": "1295", "revid": 1368220335, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1330, "year_label": "1330 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "December 6", "text": "December 6 – The British Isles are hit by a great storm, creating large areas of sand dunes on Anglesey.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350440644#January–December", "title": "1330", "revid": 1350440644, "section": "Events › January–December"}}, {"year": 1401, "year_label": "1401 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 1", "text": "April 1 – Conwy Castle in English-ruled North Wales, is captured on Good Friday by trickery by two Welsh brothers, Rhys ap Tudur and Gwilym ap Tudur of the Island of Anglesey, in support of the anti-English rebellion led by Owain Glyndŵr.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347806355#April–June", "title": "1401", "revid": 1347806355, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1675, "year_label": "1675 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 25", "text": "25 March – loss of HMY Mary off Anglesey; 35 die.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361434959#Events", "title": "1675 in England", "revid": 1361434959, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1675, "year_label": "1675 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – England's first royal yacht, HMY Mary, strikes rocks off of the coast of Anglesey while traveling from Dublin to Chester with 74 passengers and crew, and quickly sinks, with the loss of 35 people. The other 39 are able to get to safety. The wreckage is not discovered until almost 300 years later, on July 11, 1971.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992546#January–March", "title": "1675", "revid": 1365992546, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1715, "year_label": "1715 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "March", "text": "March - Owen Meyrick, a Whig, challenges the supremacy of the Tory Bulkeley family in Anglesey by being elected to Parliament for the constituency.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371017149#Events", "title": "1715 in Wales", "revid": 1371017149, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1806, "year_label": "1806 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 9", "text": "9 January - The ship Cecelia, on a voyage from Dublin to Barbados, founders in the Irish Sea off Holyhead, Anglesey, with the loss of all hands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360284081#Events", "title": "1806 in Wales", "revid": 1360284081, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1806, "year_label": "1806 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 1", "text": "1 October - The brig Mary runs aground on the Arklow Bank, in the Irish Sea and is wrecked with the loss of seven of the ten people on board. Two of the survivors are rescued by Mary, a ship homeported in Liverpool, Lancashire, whilst the third is rescued by Mary, a ship homeported in Amlwch, Anglesey.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360284081#Events", "title": "1806 in Wales", "revid": 1360284081, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1806, "year_label": "1806 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 25", "text": "25 October - The sloop Margaret, on a voyage from Bristol, Gloucestershire to Greenock, Renfrewshire, is wrecked near Holyhead, Anglesey, with the loss of all on board.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360284081#Events", "title": "1806 in Wales", "revid": 1360284081, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1823, "year_label": "1823 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Stanley Embankment completed by Thomas Telford carrying the Holyhead road between Anglesey and Holy Island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360332475#Events", "title": "1823 in Wales", "revid": 1360332475, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1826, "year_label": "1826 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 30", "text": "January 30 – The Menai Suspension Bridge, built by engineer Thomas Telford as the first major suspension bridge in world history, is opened between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373386632#January–March", "title": "1826", "revid": 1373386632, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1841, "year_label": "1841 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 26", "text": "26 July – The proprietors of The Skerries Lighthouse off Anglesey, the last privately owned light in the British Isles, are awarded £444,984 in compensation for its sale to Trinity House.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373054423#Events", "title": "1841 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1373054423, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1848, "year_label": "1848 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "August 1", "text": "1 August – Opening of an isolated section of the Chester and Holyhead Railway across Anglesey from Llanfair to Holyhead.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360410744#Events", "title": "1848 in Wales", "revid": 1360410744, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1859, "year_label": "1859 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "25–26 October – Royal Charter Storm, the most severe storm to hit the British Isles this century. 133 ships are sunk and another ninety badly damaged, with a death toll estimated as up to 800 (including some killed on land); most notably from the steam clipper Royal Charter, driven ashore on the north-east coast of Anglesey on 26 October with around 459 dead and just 39 men surviving.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360454781#Events", "title": "1859 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1360454781, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1859, "year_label": "1859 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "Steam clipper Royal Charter is wrecked off the north-east Anglesey coast, with the estimated loss of around 459 lives, the greatest loss of life in any maritime accident in Welsh waters.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360453741#Events", "title": "1859 in Wales", "revid": 1360453741, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1859, "year_label": "1859 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 26", "text": "October 26 – The steamship Royal Charter is wrecked on the coast of Anglesey, Wales, with 454 dead.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371179353#October–December", "title": "1859", "revid": 1371179353, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1867, "year_label": "1867 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "26–27 October – Barque Earl of Chester is wrecked off Rhosneigr, Anglesey, with the loss of at least 17 lives.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360502679#Events", "title": "1867 in Wales", "revid": 1360502679, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1874, "year_label": "1874 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 24", "text": "24 January – Four pilots and two apprentices are drowned in an accident off Llanddwyn on Anglesey.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360545561#Events", "title": "1874 in Wales", "revid": 1360545561, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1918, "year_label": "1918 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 26", "text": "26 January – An Irish steamship, the Cork, is torpedoed by a U-boat off Point Lynas in Anglesey. Twelve crew are killed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361341718#Events", "title": "1918 in Wales", "revid": 1361341718, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1920, "year_label": "1920 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 3", "text": "3 December - Five crew members from the Rhoscolyn lifeboat are lost off Llanddwyn, Anglesey.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361422691#Events", "title": "1920 in Wales", "revid": 1361422691, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1939, "year_label": "1939 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 1", "text": "1 June - The submarine HMS Thetis sinks during trials in Red Wharf Bay, Anglesey. At least 98 men are lost.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362602563#Events", "title": "1939 in Wales", "revid": 1362602563, "section": "Events"}}]}