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The timeline for Cardigan reflects some of the events that impacted upon the village of St.Dogmaels through the centuries.
- 418 AD Ceredigion is named for Ceredig, the son of the Welsh Chieftain Cuenedda
- 1093 Roger de Montgomery founds the first castle at Cardigan (Old Castle)
- 1107 Cilgerran Castle built
- 1109 Noted Welsh beauty Nest is abducted from Cilgerran Castle by Prince Owain of Powys, who was in love with her. Her husband, Gerald of Pembroke, escaped through a toilet waste chute in the castle walls
- 1110 A new castle at Cardigan is built on the present site
- 1121 St Dogmaels Abbey is founded on the site of a pre-Norman monastery
- 1136 Gruffydd ap Rhys led the Welsh against the Normans at the battle of Crug Mawr
- 1155 Flemish settlers fought the Welsh at Mwnt, this was remembered as Sul Coch y Mwnt - the Red Sunday of Mwnt
- 1165 Rhys ap Gruffyd captured Cardigan for the Welsh
- 1171 Cardigan Castle rebuilt in stone and mortar
- 1176 Lord Rhys hosts the first National Eisteddfod of Wales in Cardigan
- 1244 Stone town wall built by the Normans
- 14th Century - Chancel added to St Mary's Priory church
- 1485 Henry Tudor called at Cardigan castle during the march to Bosworth Field
- 1644-45 Cardigan castle attacked twice during the English Civil War - firstly by Parliament's forces and then later by the Royalists
- 1764 Shire Hall rebuilt
- 1793 Cardigan Gaol designed by John Nash
- 1805 John Bowen built a mansion house in the ruins of Cardigan Castle
- 1816 323 vessels registered at the Port of Cardigan
- 1922 Cardigan Priory re-opened as a hospital by Dame Margaret Lloyd George
- 1976 National Eisteddfod held in Cardigan
- 1984 Theatre Mwldan opened by Sir Geraint Evans
- 1993 Plaque commemorating first Eisteddfod erected near the original site
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