CARDIGAN Timeline
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 town and Castle of Cardigan
- 1100 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 The second castle at Cardigan is built
- 1120 St Dogmaels Abbey is founded on the site of a pre-Norman monastery
- 1136 Rhys ap Gruffydd led the battle of Crug Mawr against the Norman's
- 1155 Flemings invade at Mwnt only to be pushed back by the Welsh, this became known as Sul Coch y Mwnt - the bloody Sunday of Mwnt
- 1165 Rhys ap Gruffyd conquered Cardigan for the Welsh
- 1171 Cardigan Castle rebuilt in stone and mortar [see drawing top left]
- 1176 Lord Rhys hosts the first National Eisteddfod of Wales in Cardigan
- 1244 Stone town wall as built by the Norman's
- 14th Century - St Mary's church was built [left]
- 1485 Henry Tudor stays at Cardigan castle during the march to Bosworth Field
- 1645 Cardigan castle attacked by Oliver Cromwell's soldiers during the English Civil War
- 1764 Shire Hall built
- 1793 Cardigan gaol built by John Nash
- 1805 John Bowen Repaired the ruins of Cardigan Castle
- 1815 300 vessels registered in Cardigan's seaport
- 1922 Cardigan Priory reopened as a hospital by Mrs. Lloyd George
- 1976 National Eisteddfod held in Cardigan
- 1987 Theatre Mwldan opened by Sir Geraint Evans
- 1993 Monument to first Eisteddfod erected near the original site
