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1914 October 27th: Dylan Marlais Thomas Ø No National Eisteddfod was held. Ø May 15th – Parliament Ø June 28th – In Sarajevo, born at 5 Cwmdonkin Drive, Uplands, Ø July 7th: Freddie Welsh from rejected the idea of Arch Duke Franz . Pontypridd became World Scottish Home Rule, but Ferdinand from Austria- He had an older sister called Nancy Lightweight Boxing champion. principle of Irish Home Hungary and his wife, Marles Thomas. His parents – David Ø January 14th: First motorised Rule accepted. were shot, leading to the John and Florrie Thomas were both trolleybus service in Wales started in Ø May 22nd – 57 beginning of the First from Carmarthenshire. D.J.Thomas was Aberdare. Trams were running in protestors including World War. senior English Master at Swansea Swansea and South Wales Transport Emmeline Pankhurst Ø October 3rd– Earthquake Grammar School. Company was set up and ran a were arrested for trying in Turkey killed 2,500 service in Swansea Valley. to reach Buckingham people. Ø September 18th: Welsh Church Act – Palace to further their leaded to setting up the Church in cause for ‘votes for Wales (breaking free from the Church women’. of England). Ø Nov 17th: Income tax Ø First Women’s teacher training doubled to pay for the college opened in Barry. war. Ø Manager of Swansea Town AFC was an Englishman called William Bartlett. He was in post for less than a year. Ø Five Nations in rugby union was won by England with Wales second. 1915- 1915 1915 1915 25 Ø Sept 2nd: Keir Hardy, first Labour MP Ø January 19th: Aerial Ø December 10th: Ford in – died. warfare began on the USA made its one Ø Dec 4th: First submarine (J3) Britain as German millionth car. launched in Pembroke. Zeppelins were used for Ø In Llanfair PG Anglesey – first branch the first time. of the Women’s Institute was set up. Ø February 4th: UK war Ø D.W.Griffiths’ contentious film The casualties reached 2

Birth of a Nation was screened in 104,000. New York. D.W.Griffiths was an Ø February 18th: The American of Welsh descent who was planned Berlin Olympic one of the founders of the modern Games were cancelled. film industry. Ø March 18th. Government urged women to go out to work to help the war campaign.

1916 1916 1916 Ø Dec 7th: Lloyd George, a Welshman Ø January 6th: Military Ø April 8th: In Norway became Prime Minister. Conscription was passed women were given the Ø 4,000 Welsh soldiers of the 38th by Parliament. right to vote in general Division of the Welsh Guards, and a Ø May 21st: British elections. 1,000 of The Royal Welsh Fusiliers Summer Time started, Ø April 24th: Uprising in were killed in the Somme and as a way of saving coal Dublin, Ireland against Mametz. to create light in the British Rule. This lead to Ø Jimmy Wilde – World Boxing evenings the ‘Easter Rising’. Champion. Ø July 1st: Somme campaign started, leading to thousands of deaths in the trenches. Ø September 15th: Britain used tanks in the war for the first time. Ø Woodrow Wilson was elected President of the USA narrowly beating Charles Evans Hughes, whose father was a Welsh minister from 3

Tredegar.

1917 1917 1917 Ø July 31st: Hedd Wyn was killed in Ø British Royal family Ø March 16th: Russian Czar action in Pilkem Ridge before he dropped all German Nicholas II abdicated, could claim his bardic chair at the titles: Saxe-Coburg- which led to the Russian Birkenhead National Eisteddfod. Gotha became Windsor revolution of Nov 7th. Ø A young Welsh poet from Allt-wen, and Battenburg became Ø April 6th: America joined Gwenallt, was jailed for two years Mountbatten. in World War 1; because he was a conscientious objector, refusing to enlist as a soldier on moral and religious grounds.

1918 1918 1918 Ø Autumn /Winter: Wales was hit by a Ø January 25th: British Ø The ex Czar of Russia and killer flu. Government introduced his family killed by Ø September 27th: The composer and a two-meatless-days-a- Russia’s Bolshevik. musician Morfydd Owen died in week policy to deal Ø November 11th: Craig-y-môr, whilst on her with food shortages. Germany signed the holidays. She was only 27 years old Ø November 12th: Britain Armistice – which meant and married to Sigmund Freud’s had war debts of £7,100 the end of the First World biographer and colleague, Ernest million. War which claimed 10 Jones from . Ø November 23rd: League million allied and enemy Football resumed in lives. Britain. Ø December 28th: women over 30 voted for the first time in a general election.

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1919 1919 1919 Ø June 12th: Calls for a Welsh regional Ø July 5th: Wimbledon Ø April 17: Four of the top parliament. women’s championship film artists joined to Ø September 27th: Adelina Patti from was won for the first create a new company Craig y Nos, Swansea Valley, died. She time by a woman from a called United Artists, in was a world famous operatic singer. non-English speaking Hollywood. The artists nation – Suzanne were Mary Pickford, Lenglen from France. Douglas Fairbank, Charles Ø October 16th: Chaplin and D.W. Griffith. Government had set up Ø June 28th: Germany a Commission to look signed the Peace Treaty into a system of federal at Versailles. devolution for the UK. Ø November 28th: Nancy Astor became Britain’s first woman MP. She was elected a Tory MP for Plymouth in a by- election.

1920 1920 1920 Ø The Church in Wales was officially set Ø August 31st: London Ø January 16th: Prohibition up. police report revealed became law in the USA – Ø Billy Meredith at the age of 45 played that the growing prohibiting the for the Wales International football number of motor cars manufacture and sale of team, beating England at Highbury. had led to an increase in alcohol. He played professionally for road deaths. Ø August: Olympic Games Manchester United. Ø October 16th: Coal were held in Antwerp, Ø University College of Wales Swansea miners were out on a Belgium. opened its doors to students for the national strike. Ø September 10th: In India, first time. The national Congress, adopted Gandhi’s programme of non-co- 5

operation with the Indian Government. This was based on a non-violent approach. Ø November 21st: Killings in Ireland on this day became known as Bloody Sunday. In Croke Park in Dublin, - the HQ of the Gaelic Athletic Association, 12 people were killed by the Black and Tans (special police) and soldiers as a football match was about to start.

1921 1921 1921 Ø The census showed a dramatic fall in Ø February 16th: Ø January: More violence in the number and percentage of Welsh Unemployment in Ireland as the Irish people speakers in Wales over 3yrs of age: Britain, topped 1 million fought for freedom from Ø 1911 – 43.5% (977,366) (included 368,000 ex- British Rule. Ø 1921 – 37.2% (929,183) servicemen). Ø December 7th: British Ø March 17th: First birth and Irish negotiators control clinic was signed an agreement to opened in London. create the Republic of Ø May 15th: It was official Ireland. that women preferred Ø Medical history made to wear shorter skirts, with the recognising of showing the calves of insulin, offering hope to their legs. those who suffered from Ø June 10th: diabetes. The finding was Unemployment in made in Canada by Britain reached 2.2 Frederick Banting and 6

million. Charles Best. Ø June 25th: It rained after a 100 day drought in Britain. Ø August 1st: Increase in day trippers that took a break to the seaside. This was shown in the increase of seaside postcards.

1922 1922 1922 Ø The Urdd Gobaith Cymru Fach was Ø February 7th: Foot and Ø June 16th: First elections set up by Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards. mouth outbreaks were held for the Irish Free Ø The Goodwill Message from the reported, leading to the state. young people of Wales to all nations slaughter of 8,500 Ø July 27th: Germany in the promotion of peace, was begun cattle, 1,000 sheep and couldn’t keep up with the (Neges Ewyllys Da Dros Heddwch). 2,500 pigs. payment of war debts. Ø May 22nd: Highest The country was facing temperature in London ruin and the people were for 50 years - 88°F in the suffering. shade. Ø August 22nd: Michael Ø August 2nd: Alexander Collins, Irish politician and Graham Bell who fighter for the free Irish invented the telephone state, was shot in Cork. died. Ø November 29th: Ø August 14th: Lord Tutankhamun treasures Northcliffe, pioneer of found in the Valley of the popular newspapers Kings in Egypt. and founder of the Daily Ø November 30th: In Mail died. Munich, Germany, Adolf Ø October 18th: BBC was Hitler addressed a crowd formed. of 50,000. 7

Ø October 25th: George Cadbury, chocolate giant, died

1923 1923 1923 Ø February 13th:The Welsh language Ø July 13th: Law passed to Ø February 16th: French was first heard on radio in Wales. prohibit the sale of fashion queen – Coco alcohol to anyone under Chanel designed sweaters the age of 18 years old. for women. Her designs had changed the face of women’s fashion. Ø September 16th: Earthquake in Tokyo, Japan, killed 300,000 and made over a million people homeless.

1924 1924 1924 Ø May 31st: David Ivon Jones from Ø January 22nd: Labour Ø January 21st: Lenin, Aberystwyth died of TB in Yalta, party won general founder of the Soviet Russia. He was a communist who election outright and Union died. fought hard for the rights of the black Ramsay MacDonald Ø July: Paris Olympic Games population of South Africa. became first Labour were held. Ø September 26th: Pendine beach, Prime Minister. Malcolm Campbell broke the land Ø February 16th: Every speed record, reaching the speed of port in the country was 146.16 miles per hour in his car paralysed by the Sunbeam. Dockers strike. Ø August 20th: Agreement was reached to allow 3,000 UK families to emigrate to Canada and 8

live on farms.

1925 After attending primary school in Mrs Ø February 3rd: Jim Driscoll, World Ø March 18th: Fire Ø June 29th: In South Africa Hole’s ‘Dame School’ in Mirador Featherweight Boxing Champion was destroyed two floors of a colour bar was made Crescent, Dylan entered Swansea buried in . Madam Tussauds’ legal banning black Grammar School. Ø Clough Williams Ellis started work on waxworks museum in people from skilled jobs. creating an Italian village in Wales. London. Ø July 18th: Hitler’s book This is now known as Portmeirion. Ø July 18th: It was Mein Kampf was Ø August 5th: In Pwllheli, Y Blaid Fach reported that 10 million published. (Welsh National Party / Plaid Cymru) people listened to radio Ø July 21st: Biology teacher was formed. broadcasts in Britain. in Tennessee, USA was Ø December 12th: Setting up of 5SX Ø September 29th: White fined for teaching Swansea Radio. traffic lines were Darwin’s theory of painted on roads in evolution. London for the first time Ø August 8th: First national to separate traffic. Ku Klux Klan Conference was held in Washington. 1926 1926 1926 1926 - First prize for running the mile at Ø December 29th: First public Ø January 25th: Surgeon Ø April 24th: Riots between 31 Swansea Grammar School. He did not telephone service between Wales Sir Berkeley Moynihan Hindus and Moslems in excel in his academic work but was a and America was launched by said that cancer of the India. good actor and very good at creative W.H.Powning – from the Post Office tongue could be caused Ø July 4th: The first writing in English. in Swansea. A 3 min call cost £15 and by smoking. congress of the Nazi party an extra £5 for each minute after Ø January 27th: First began, in Germany, called that. moving images were by Adolph Hitler. Ø National Eisteddfod held in Swansea. transmitted by wireless Ø September 19th: Gwenallt won the chair. demonstrated by John Hurricane swept Florida, Logie Baird at the Royal USA killing 1,500 and Institution in London. 40,000 homeless. This was to become television. Ø February 17th: Dr J.S.Russell at the 9

Institute of Hygiene warned about the dangers of drinking and smoking on people’s health and that a craze amongst women to be stick thin was also very dangerous to health. Ø May 5th: National strike was held for nine days.

1927 1927 1927 Ø April 21st: National Museum of Wales Ø January 21st: Number Ø Charles Lindbergh plane was opened in Cardiff. of telephones in use flight across the Atlantic Ø Rhys Davies, the author from Clydach now was estimated to Ocean, landed in France. who moved to London, published his be 500,000. Ø The USA won the first first three books ‘The Withered Root’, Ø February 26th: 1,000 Ryder Cup in golf. ‘Aaron’, and ‘The Song of songs and people a week dying Ø November 29th: In other stories’. from the flu. Buenos Aires, Argentina, Ø November 23rd: 200 unemployed Ø May 19th: Report on a Frenchman Alexandre miners from the Rhondda walked 180 increase in the number Alekhine won the world miles to London. The Prime Minister of hairdressers because chess championship. Stanley Baldwin refused to meet of the new rage for them. women to shingle their hair.

1928 1928 1928 Ø June 18th: Amelia Earhart was the Ø January 6th: The Ø September 30th – first woman to fly across the Atlantic Thames in London, Alexander Fleming from America to Europe, leaving bursts its banks, flooded discovered penicillin. Newfoundland and landing in Burry low-lying districts of Ø March 26th: Nearly five Port. London and drowned 14 million shares sold in people including 4 record trading on Wall 10

young sisters. Hundreds Street. had been left homeless. Ø August: Olympic Games Ø January 14th: The were held in Amsterdam, author Thomas Hardy Holland. died. Ø May 7th: The vote was given to women between the ages of 21 and 30. Ø May 14th: The suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst died. Ø August 10th: It was announced that population of the UK smoked the most – an average of 3.4 pounds of tobacco per person.

1929 1929 1929 Ø February: First talking movie was Ø June 10th: Margaret Ø February 14th: Valentine shown in Wales at the Queen cinema Bondfield became the Massacre in Chicago, in a in Cardiff. The film was Singing Fool – first woman to be a gangster fight between Al Al Johnson. member of the Capone’s gang and a rival Ø May 31st: First National Urdd Government’s cabinet. gang. Eisteddfod held at Corwen, north Ø October 24th: The Wall Wales. Street crash, the value of Ø May 30th: Aneurin Bevan is first shares on the Stock elected a member of parliament. He Exchange in New York went on to create the National Health fell, which effected the Service. Also Megan Lloyd George world economy. was the first woman MP for Wales. Ø Last time for the National Eisteddfod 11

to be held outside Wales – it was held in Liverpool. Ø In 1929 the number of motorcars in Wales reached 100,000. Ø August – Glan-llyn, the first Urdd camp was opened near Bala in north Wales.

1930 1930 1930 Ø January: Maurice Turnbull from Ø March 2nd: The novelist Ø January 6th: Don Cardiff, an international capped D H Lawrence died. Bradman broke the world player in rugby and hockey for Wales, Ø March 14th: The record in cricket scoring was the first Welshman to be Channel Tunnel 452 runs in one batting. selected to play cricket for England Committee approved Ø April 6th: Gandhi was and toured Australia and New building of a tunnel arrested for breaking the Zealand. from England to France. salt law in India. Ø November: Welsh born James Ø July 7th: The author Sir Ø June 6th: Frozen J.Davies from Tredegar, was the first Arthur Conan Doyle vegetables were sold for Welshman to be elected senator for died – he created the first time in the Pennsylvania, United States of Sherlock Holmes. United States. America. He returned more than once Ø August 28th: In the UK Ø July 30th: Uruguay won to Tredegar and bought a house for 24 people had died the first ever World cup the townspeople that was turned into because of the heat in football; a library. wave, as temperatures Ø New synthetic fibre Ø December 24th: First Youth Hostel in soared to 94 °F (34 °C). material discovered by Britain was opened in Wales – Ø August 30th: Cost of a Wallace Carothers of the Neuadd Pennant, Conwy Valley. brand new Morris Major Du Pont Company in car produced in Cowley, America. It was called Oxford was £215. nylon. Ø September 15th: London enjoyed a boom in building, since 1925,250,000 new 12

buildings had been built.

1931 Dylan left Swansea Grammar School to Ø October 25th: Wales had a draw Ø January 1st: The Road Ø May 1st: Empire State become a junior reporter on the South game against Scotland in football, but Traffic Act came into Building was opened in Wales Daily Post. This later became the because English clubs would not force, introducing traffic New York. It was the South Wales Evening Post. release players for Wales, this team policemen and world’s tallest building was made up of nine new caps, many compulsory third party then. amateurs who played for local sides. insurance. Ø Mahatma Gandhi, the This team became famous and were Ø June 19th: Farmers Indian leader visited called “The Great Unknowns”; Wales were forbidden to move Britain. went on to win the International any livestock because of Ø October 22nd: Al Capone, tournament in 1933, 34, 37 and an epidemic of foot and a Chicago gangster was shared in 1939. mouth. jailed for 11 years for tax Ø November 21st: The academic gypsy Ø September 20th: Britain dodging. scholar John Sampson was given a faced economic crisis Ø October 18th: Thomas traditional gypsy funeral in Llangwm and devaluing the Edison, prolific inventor north Wales, with pound forced off the died at the age of 84 in leading the funeral. gold standard. London New Jersey. He made Ø December: One of the first Welsh Stock Exchange closed major contributions to language children’s books was for 2-days because of the telephone, the published, Llyfr Mawr y Plant by the crisis with gramophone, electric Jennie Thomas and JO Williams. unemployment over light and moving pictures. Ø Cynan (Rev Albert Evans) was 2,71 million. He patented 1,100 appointed an official censor for Ø December 15th: inventions theatre and film productions in Following a trial period Wales. This was to ensure that all in London, it was productions were morally suitable. announced that traffic lights were to be used all over Britain.

1932 Dylan joined Swansea Little Theatre Ø August : Opening of the Urdd camp in Ø May 20th: BBC Ø March 18th: Sydney Company, based in Mumbles. His sister Llangrannog. Headquarters were Harbour Bridge was 13

Nancy was already a member. He acted Ø August: Official unemployment opened in Portland opened in Australia. in a number of productions. figures for Wales was 42.8% of the Place in London. Ø April 4th: Vitamin C was insured male population – a total of Ø October 8th: The found and isolated by December: Dylan left South Wales Daily 227,000. London Philharmonic scientists in America. Post to work full time on his poetry. Orchestra gave its first Ø August: Los Angeles concert under the baton Olympics held. He became friends with a group of of its creator Sir Thomas talented young Swansea men who met Beecham. in the KARDOMAH café. The Kardomah gang were: (poet), (composer), (artist), John Prichard, Tom Warner, Charlie Fisher and (artist), Ronald Cour (artist). It was in the 1950’s that (artist) also became one of the gang.

1933 August: Dylan first went to London, Ø July 29th: The Milk Marketing Board Ø April 4th: First sighting Ø January 30th: Hitler was stayed with his sister Nancy and her was set up, guaranteeing farmers a near Inverness in elected Chancellor of husband, Haydn Taylor. He visited monthly cheque for their milk. This Scotland of the Loch Germany; editors of literary magazines. made farming in rural Wales more Ness monster. Ø February 5th: Prohibition viable. Ø October 5th: Slums of ended in the United He also came into contact with Pamela began to States, meaning that Hansford Johnson. They began writing be cleared at a cost of alcohol could again letters to each other. £95 million. legally be sold.

1934 February 23rd: Dylan’s second visit to Ø August 2nd: The new Swansea Town Ø February 23rd: Edward Ø June 10th: Italy won the London. He stayed with Pamela Hall was opened and became the Elgar the composer world cup in football Hansford Johnson and her mother in home for the murals of Sir Frank died. beating Czechoslovakia. 14

Battersea. They formed a relationship Brangwyn (Empire Panels). They Ø July 18th: Mersey Ø July 4th: Marie Curie the that lasted until 1935. came to Swansea after they were tunnel was opened. famous scientist died. commissioned and refused by the Ø October 5th: Catalan November: Dylan moved to London – 5 House of Lords in London. uprising against the Redcliffe Street, Earls Court. He shared Ø September 22nd : Gresford near Spanish state, began. the lodgings with Swansea friends, Wrexham, Mining Disaster, lead to artists Alfred Janes and Mervyn Levy. 265 deaths. But he did return frequently to see his Ø November 10th: The traditional parents at Cwmdonkin Drive, Uplands, Welsh singing to the harp – Cerdd Swansea. Dant, formed a national society.

December 18th: Dylan’s first book of poems appeared . It was published jointly by the Sunday Referee and Parton Bookshop.

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1936 April: Dylan met Caitlin Macnamara Ø March 27th: 12% of the homes of Ø January 20th: George Ø July 19th: Franco landed from Hammersmith, London (who Wales had a radio licence. 264,140 Vth died and his son in Cadiz and started the became his wife later on). She was the licenses for a population of 2.1 Edward VIII became Spanish civil war. lover of Augustus John (the artist) at the million people. king. Ø August 3rd: Jessie Owens, time. They met at the Wheatsheaf Pub Ø September 8th: Saunders Lewis, DJ Ø September 4th: Lloyd a black man won three in Soho, London. It was said that they Williams and Lewis Valentine burnt George met Hitler in gold medals at the Berlin spent the next few days together at the down the bombing school nr Pwllheli Germany. Olympics. Eiffel Tower Hotel, charging the bill to as a protest. All three were jailed. It Ø October 5th: The Jarrow Augustus John. was considered a turning point in March of the Welsh politics and Welsh nationalism. unemployed to London. July: Dylan and Caitlin met again at Ø November: Aa number of Welsh Ø December 11th: Edward Richard Hughes’ (writer) home in people joined the International VIII abdicated as king. . Dylan and Augustus John brigade to fight against fascism in fought over Caitlin. Spain – against Franco. In all 177 15

Welshmen joined and 33 were killed. September 10th: Dylan Thomas published his second collection Twenty Five Poems (J M Dent & Sons – New Poetry series). Most of his poems were written in these early years.

1937 April 21st: Dylan’s first radio broadcast Ø Summer : The first edition of the Ø May 12th: First outside Ø February 16th: The new ‘Life and the Modern Poet’ (BBC Welsh literary magazine by those writing in broadcast by the BBC fibre ‘nylon’ was Service) recorded in the BBC’s London English in Wales, appeared. It was was the coronation of patented. studios. called Wales and was edited by King George VIth in Ø April 26th: The town of Keidrych Rhys of Bethlehem near Westminster Abbey. Guernica was destroyed July 11th: Dylan and Caitlin married at Llandeilo. Two of the publications in the Spanish Civil War Penzance Registry Office in Cornwall, were edited by Dylan Thomas and by bombs from German against the wishes of his parents. They Nigel Heseltine. The branding for the planes. had to borrow the £3 needed for the publication was based on the notion Ø May 6th: 30 people were wedding licence. “that although we may write in killed as the air ship English , our roots are in Wales”. Hindenburg caught fire September: Dylan’s parents had moved Ø The Grand National was won by a on landing in the United to Bishopston, Gower. Dylan and Caitlin horse called ‘Royal Mail’ owned by States. stayed with them and then a month Hugh Lloyd, a Welshman, trained by later with Caitlin’s mother at Blashford Ivor Anthony from Kidwelly, and near Ringwood in Hampshire. ridden by Evan Williams from Cowbridge. Ø July 4th: New radio band width opened by the BBC specifically for Welsh language broadcasts following campaigning by the Broadcast Committee of the University of Wales and complaints by listeners in England regarding hearing Welsh on 16

their radio.

1938 May: Dylan and Caitlin moved to a small Ø July 7th: The Tenby, Welsh born Ø Neville Chamberlain Ø March 14th: Hitler fisherman’s cottage – Eros, in Gosport artist, Augustus John was chosen as signed an agreement marched through Vienna Street, Laugharne. one of three British artists to exhibit with Germany, France day after announcing the at the Louvre in Paris. The Nazis had and Italy, in Munich to unification of Germany August: they moved from Eros to Sea banned the showing of his work. secure “peace in our and Austria. View, Laugharne. Caitlin described this Augustus John lived a bohemian time” for the whole of Ø Sigmund Freud a Jewish time as “the happiest period of our lives lifestyle, became famous not only as Europe. Austrian (father of together”. an artist but as someone who studied psychoanalysis and the life of the Romany Gypsies, and neurology) was flown November: they stayed with Caitlin’s became a friend of Dylan Thomas. from Vienna in Austria to mother in Hampshire for a couple of Indeed it was from Augustus John live in London because months as Caitlin was expecting their that Dylan stole Caitlin Macnamara, the Nazis took over first baby. who became his wife. Austria. The S.S. and Ø October 22nd: The Welsh football Gestapo refused to allow team at Ninian Park in Cardiff, beat Freud to leave the England in a memorable victory of 4 country for 3 months. It goals to two. England earlier in the was with the help of his year had beaten Germany 6 goals to Welsh co-worker, Ernest 3. The Welsh scorers were all for the Jones, that Freud Merthyr area. managed to escape. Ø November 23rd: The Temple of Peace Ø July 3rd: A steam and Health in Cathays Park, Cardiff locomotive train called was opened. It was built as a home to Mallard, broke the record two movements – and was the for a steam engine by brainchild of David Davies, Llandinam travelling at 126 miles per (Baron Davies), and was conceived to hour. serve two purposes. The first was to Ø September 27th: The provide a home for the King Edward Queen Elizabeth, the VII Welsh National Memorial largest passenger carrying Association, a voluntary organisation ship, was launched. dedicated to the prevention, Ø November 9th: The Nazis 17

treatment and eradication of attacked the Jewish tuberculosis, which had been people of Germany in an founded by Lord Davies in 1910. attack that became Davies was also the founding known as Kristallnacht, president of the Welsh National the night of the smashing Council of the League of Nations glass. Union, and in 1934 he pledged £58,000 towards the erection of a building to house the two organisations. Lord Davies wished for the Temple of Peace and Health to be "a memorial to those gallant men from all nations who gave their lives in the war that was to end war" and so it was dedicated to the memory of those who laid down their lives in that war. Davies had fought in the trenches during this war, and was actively involved in the search for stable international order through the League of Nations and the League of Nations Union. He wanted to see the establishment of a strong International Police force so that international agreement and peace could be obtained. It was opened by Mrs Minnie James from Dowlais, Merthyr, who lost three sons in the First World War.

1939 January 30th: Their first child was born – Ø June 2nd: The submarine HMS Thetis Ø September 3rd: Neville Ø April 1st: Spanish Civil Llewelyn Edouard Thomas. got into trouble off the coast in the Chamberlain, the British war ended with a victory Bay of Liverpool. The lifeboat from Prime Minister for the fascists under the 18

August 24th: Third collection of poetry Llandudno tried to save the sub- announced that Britain leadership of General and prose by Dylan The Map of Love mariners, but of the 103 crew, 99 was at war with Franco. was published by J.M.Dent &Sons. were killed. Some drowned, others Germany. Ø August 24th: Germany trapped without air. Ø Young women started and the Soviet Union December 20th: The World I Breathe – a Ø Arthur Whitford from Swansea won to work on the land – signed a peace treaty. collection of poems and short stories, his 10th British Gymnastic title, called ‘land girls’ as a Ø September 1st: Germany was published in the United States of wining every year from 1928 to 1936. part of the war effort to invaded Poland. America. He began training at the Boy’s Club in grow more food off the Ø November 30th: Soviet Sketty Church. He pioneered a land. Union attacked Finland. They were still staying with Caitlin’s training regime for gymnasts. family in Hampshire. Ø May: Gas masks were issued to all in Wales because of the threat of war. Ø May 2nd: The Post Office agreed finally to put bilingual directions in phone boxes in Wales. The argument was won on the fact that in London, for example in Victoria Station, the directions for the use of the call box was in English, French and German. Ø August: The film Proud Valley began to be filmed. It was the chronicle of a Welsh mining village and the acceptance of a black worker (played by Paul Robeson an American actor and singer) as a part of the mining community. This started a strong relationship between Paul Robeson, who suffered a lot of racial prejudice during his career, and the mining communities of Wales. Ø September 18th: Gwen John, a talented artist from Pembrokeshire, and sister of Augustus John, died at 19

Dieppe, Normandy, France. She studied at Slade Art School in London, before moving to Paris. Ø September 25th: First Welsh primary school was opened in Aberystwyth by Sir Ifan ab Owen Edwards, who set up the Urdd movement. It started with 7 pupils; then by the end of 1940 – 17 pupils, 32 by 1942 and 71 by 1945. Ø September 29th: War Office allowed members of the British forces to write letters in Welsh back home and conscientious objectors allowed to have their tribunal heard through the medium of Welsh.

1940 March /April: Dylan, wife and little boy Ø January 21st: In Rhaeadr, Powys, Ø May 10th: Neville Ø April 9th: German forces moved back to Sea View, Laugharne. lowest temperatures on record were Chamberlain stood attacked Denmark and noted for Wales - -23.3˚C (-10˚F). It down as Prime Minister Sweden. April 4th: Portrait of the Artist as a was a cold winter with heavy snow. and Winston Churchill Ø June 14th: German forces Young Dog, Dylan’s semi Ø Epynt mountain in Breconshire was took office as Germany marched through Paris. autobiographical collection of short taken over by the War office and attacked Belgium and Ø June 22nd: France stories, was published by J.M.Dent & turned into a military training ground. Holland/Netherlands. surrendered to Germany. Sons. Two hundred farmers (and their Ø November 5th: Franklin families) were forced to leave their Roosevelt was re-elected May: Dylan failed Army medical at homes, and the local chapel – Y as President of the United Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire. He was Babell, was used as a bombing target. States of America. nearly 26 years old. There were strong views about this. They had debts in Laugharne and moved This land has never been returned to live with his parents in Bishopston. and remains military training ground. Friends paid off the debts. Ø September: Works of Art were moved from different Galleries to be stored June/August: they stayed with John during the war in an old slate mining 20

Davenport (critic ) and his American cave in Blaenau Ffestiniog, north painter wife, Clement, in The Maltings, Wales. Marshfield, Gloucestershire. The house Ø As a part of the War effort, posters was full of musicians and artists. They were produced in the Welsh language could hear war planes overhead. as well as English, urging the population to save, recycle and July: Dylan and Caitlin left Laugharne for produce more. These were London considered propaganda leaflets. Ø August: National Eisteddfod of September: Dylan began working for Bangor was held as a radio Strand Films as a script writer. He programme and transmitted to the worked for Strand Films throughout the whole of Britain. The chair was won war. by T.Rowland Hughes. Ø August 19th: Oil tankers were December – they returned to stay with bombed in Pembroke Dock, causing a Dylan’s parents in Bishopston, Gower huge explosion and fire. The fire until April raged for 18 days. Five fire fighters were killed and 38 others injured. 11 of the 17 oil tankers were destroyed.

1941 February 19th -21st: The Luftwaffe of Ø February 19th-21st: 41 acres of Ø May 11th: The Blitz Ø January 13th: The world- Nazi Germany continually bombed Swansea was flattened and destroyed continued on London. famous Irish author Swansea. 230 people were killed and by the bombing. The city had been a Ø May 27th: The James Joyce died. more than 400 injured. Dylan and Caitlin target since the 27th of June 1940, unsinkable Bismark, a Ø December 8th: Japanese were in the area during this attack. and continued to be so until February German war ship, was aeroplanes bombed Pearl 1943. On Wednesday 19th of sunk by the British navy. Harbour, Hawaii, and May/July: Dylan and Caitlin stayed at February, 1941 a little after 8:00pm, started the war between Castle House in Laugharne with Richard 61 aeroplanes targeted and bombed Japan and the USA. and Frances Hughes (Richard wrote A Swansea dropping 492 bombs and High Wind in Jamaica and his wife was 15,700 fire bombs. The same pattern an artist). remained for the following three nights. The undetonated bombs August: Dylan and Caitlin moved back to proved just as dangerous as three 21

London, leaving Llewelyn their son with young boys who went to investigate, Caitlin’s family, because of the bombing were blown to death. In 1941 985 on London. civilians were killed due to air raids in Wales. During the whole of the Second World War, Swansea suffered about 40 air attacks, killing 387 people, more than Cardiff, who lost 355 of its inhabitants. In June, the village of Brymbo, north Wales was bombed. Many small villages in north Wales suffered as the planes dropped their last bombs on the way home. Small villages such as Llandegla, Llansannan, Gwytherin and Nantglyn suffered. The official targets had been cities such as Liverpool, Manchester and Birmingham. Ø The arms factory in Bridgend employed 37,000 people. Most of them were women. It was the largest arms factory in Britain at the time. Ø October 28th: The famous Welsh film How Green Was My Valley, based on Richard Llewellyn’s famous novel, was screened in New York. Although the director decided to get Irish actors to play the Welsh characters, and everything had been filmed in a specially built Welsh mining village in San Fernando, California, the film went on to win five Oscars including best film.

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1942 July: Dylan and Caitlin rented one-room Ø June 26th: The deputy Führer of Ø December 1st: The Ø August 9th: Mahatma studio at Wentworth Studios, Manresa Germany, Rudolph Hess, was Beveridge Report was Gandhi and 50 supporters Road, London SW3 – which remained imprisoned in a mental hospital in published outlining the started on a period of their base for several years. But from Abergavenny, Gwent. He had been possibility of setting up civil disobedience in India 1942-44 because of the war, Caitlin caught in Scotland a year before, the welfare state in in order to gain freedom stayed periodically at Laugharne and when he flew in secretly to try and Britain after the war. for the people of India. Talsarn, Cardiganshire, while Dylan negotiate a peace settlement. There divided his time between Wales and were various conspiracy theories London. surrounding this story. Ø October 22nd: A law was passed allowing a person to give evidence in Welsh in Welsh Courts. This had been forbidden since the days of king Henry VIII.

1943 Dylan’s continuous work as a Ø April 30th: The body of a homeless Ø February 12th: Lord Ø July 25th: Mussolini, the broadcaster began. man from Aberbargoed, , Nuffield set up a trust dictator of Italy, was who committed suicide in London, with a gift of £10 million overthrown, leading to February: New Poems published in the was used in a famous decoy and trick – this became known as Italy surrendering to the United States by New Directions. known as “operation mincemeat”. He the Nuffield Scholarship Allied forces. was dressed as a military officer, Trust. Ø March 28th: Russian March 3rd: Aeronwy Bryn Thomas, found drowned off the coast of Spain, Ø May 3rd: All women 18- composer, Sergei Dylan and Caitlin’s second child, was but carrying important documents 45 years old expected to Rachmaninov died at the born in London. suggesting that the Allied Forces were work at least part time age of 69, he had moved going to land in Sardinia in order to for the war effort. to Beverley Hills, Los win over Italy. The Germans Angeles since 1917. swallowed the story, hook, line and sinker! The successful landing took place in Sicily, but the German forces had already moved to Sardinia. Ø July 8th: Iron Age remains were found on Anglesey near Valley RAF station. 23

This was to become one of the most significant Iron age finds in Britain. Ø September 14th: Transmission of Wynford Vaughan Thomas a well known broadcaster from Swansea, who was in a Lancaster bomber as it bombed Berlin. He also did a broadcast from Belsen concentration camp at the end of the war. Ø Eddie Price and nine other business people set up the Cancer charity Tenovus. They have raised significant amounts of money for research and development in the field of medical research here in Wales.

1944 April / June: Because of the war – Dylan Ø Richard Burton appeared for the first Ø April 6th: The income Ø June 6th: D-day landings. and Caitlin lived for a while in Old time in a comedy production, The tax system of PAYE (pay The Allied Forces landed Bosham in West Sussex and then near Druids Rest (by Welsh playwrighter as you earn) was on the beaches of France Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. Emlyn Williams) in London’s West introduced. to free Europe from Nazi End. Ø November 20th: The rule. July/August: They stayed with Dylan’s Ø The war had led to the liberating of blackout enforcement Ø July 20th: Failed bomb parents, who had now moved to women, many working in war effort ended in London. attack by some Germans Blaencwm, Llan-gain, Carmarthenshire. factories and a large number working Ø August 3rd: The to try and kill Hitler. on the land as land-girls. Gwyneth Education Act 1944 September: Dylan, Caitlin and children Richards from Llandinam, changed the education moved to Majoda, New Quay, Radnorshire, as the first girl to system for secondary Ceredigion, where Dylan started to compete in sheep shearing schools in England and experiment with characters for one of competitions with the Young Farmers Wales. Called the his most famous works, Under Milk Clubs of Wales. "Butler Act" after the Wood. Ø March 27th: Last air raids on Wales Conservative politician led to 12 people being killed in R.A. Butler, it made all 24

Cardiff. schooling-especially secondary education, free for all pupils. It raised the school leaving age to 15.

1945 August/September: They stayed at Ø March 26th: Lloyd George died at the Ø May 8th: Winston Ø January 27th: The Blaencwm with Dylan’s parents. age of 82. He was the first Welshman Churchill the Prime monstrosities of the to become Prime Minister of Britain. Minister announced the killing of the Jews by the December /March 1947: Dylan and He was buried by the Dwyfor River, end of the Second Nazis began to appear, Caitlin spent Christmas with the Llanystumdwy, near Cricieth in World War – Victory in with the revelations historian AJP Taylor and his wife Gwynedd. Europe Day (VE Day). regarding Auschwitz Margaret at Holywell Ford, Oxford. Ø November 15th: Fforest-fach Ø July 5th: General concentration camp in Margaret became one of Dylan’s most Industrial Estate was opened by King election. The result was Poland. This became important patrons. Caitlin and Dylan George 6th. This was typical of the not made known until known as The Holocaust, moved into the summerhouse at the new industrial sites developed to July 26th. This was a with over six million Jews bottom of the garden (much to AJP employ and help the economy after huge victory for the being murdered by the Taylor’s disgust). the war. Labour Party and Nazis during the Second Ø Following the election, two Welsh Clement Atlee became World War. Between December 1945 and May 1949 MPs were given prominent roles: Prime Minister. Ø August 15th: Dylan either wrote or took part in over a Aneurin Bevan, MP for Ebwy Vale was Announcement of Victory hundred BBC radio programmes. made Minister for Health, and James over Japan Day (VJ Day). Griffiths, MP for Llanelli, National Insurance Minister. Ø At the Plaid Cymru summer school, Gwynfor Evans was elected president of Plaid Cymru following Saunders Lewis as the first president of the party. Gwynfor Evans remained President until 1981.

1946 Deaths and Entrances published by JM Ø By 1946 there were 13,653 tractors in Ø August 1st: The National Ø February 24th: Juan Dent & sons Ltd. Wales, compared to 1,932 in 1938. Insurance Bill became Peron was elected 25

The war had a huge impact on law. Insuring all workers President of Argentina. August: Dylan and Caitlin spent four agriculture production in Wales. against the risk of He was supported by his days at Puck Fair at Killorglin, County Ø April 15th: First ever performances by unemployment, illness second wife, Eva Duarte Kerry in the Republic of Ireland, with the new Welsh National Opera and retirement. This ("Evita"), and the two their friends Bill and Helen McAlpine. Company in Cardiff. The two first also included self were immensely popular Puck Fair was one of the oldest fairs in operas performed were Cavalleria employed people. The among many Argentines. Ireland, when the pubs stayed open and Rusticana and I Pagliacii. The opera Bill was led by James Ø July 11th: A new type of a wild goat was crowned the ‘Puck King’. company was the vision of Idloes Griffiths, the Welsh MP swimwear was exhibited It was a horse fair that drew people Owen a former miner from Merthyr for Llanelli. in Paris for the first time, from all over the world. and Ivor John the musician from it was called the ‘bikini’. They returned to stay in Blaencwm with Swansea. Ø November 22nd: A new Dylan’s parents. Ø July 25th: The Welsh National Youth writing tool called the Orchestra was established by Irwyn ‘biro’ went on sale. November 8th: Selected Writings was Walters, originally from Ammanford. published in the United States by New Directions.

1947 March 26th: Society of Authors awarded Ø June 11th-15th: the first Llangollen Ø January 1st: All the coal Ø April 7th: Henry Ford the Dylan a £150 Travelling Scholarship with International Eisteddfod was held mines of the country American who founded a recommendation that he should visit with 14 countries represented. The were nationalised, and the Ford Motor Company, Italy. founding idea was that of promoting thus run by the died. world peace and harmony. government. This meant Ø August 15th: India was April/August: Dylan and Caitlin and her Ø March 1st: Welsh medium primary the setting up of the given her independence sister Brigid, took the family to stay in school was opened in Llanelli – Ysgol National Coal Board. back, signalling the end of Rapallo, Florence and Elba in Italy, Gymraeg Dewi Sant. Ø January – March: worst the Indian Raj (1858- where Dylan wrote ‘In Country Sleep’. Ø March 27th: Billy Butlin opened a winter on record with 1947), the ruling of the holiday camp near Pwllheli, north freezing temperatures sub-continent by the June 15th: BBC broadcasted his Wales. These camps transformed the and heavy snow drifts, British Empire. programme on the destruction of the idea of cheap holidays for working resulted in communities Ø November 29th: The Swansea of his youth Return Journey. families. Another camp was opened being cut off and United Nations agreed on by him in 1966 on Barry Island, south emergency services a plan to split Palestine June: Margaret Taylor bought the Wales. having to deliver bread into two states between 26

Manor House at South Leigh, Ø April 23rd: A double tragedy struck to people. the Jews and the Arabs, Oxfordshire, for the Thomas family. off the south Wales coast when Ø May 23rd: The British thus setting up Israel and during a particular bad storm the Government created Palestine. steam ship Samtampa sank, drowning two new states out of 41 of the crew. Whilst trying to save the old India – the New them, the Mumbles lifeboat also India and Pakistan. sank, drowning the 8 members of the Ø August 15th: First crew. nuclear plant was opened in Britain – in Harwell, Oxfordshire.

1948 March/April: Dylan visited his parents in Ø July 1st: Sain Ffagan, near Cardiff was Ø July 29th: London Ø January 30th: Mahatma Blaencwm and went to Laugharne, opened as an open air National Welsh Olympic Games opened. Gandhi was killed in India hoping to find a place for the family to Folk Museum. These were the first by extremists. live. Ø July/August: Tom Richards from Risca Olympic Games since Ø May 14th: Israel as a in Gwent was the first Welshman to the war started. The Jewish country was set April: Dylan’s parents – DJ Thomas and win an individual Olympic Medal. He previous Games had up. Florence arrived in South Leigh. won the Silver in the Marathon event. been held in Berlin in Ø November 3rd: Harry Other had won medals 1936. Teams from S.Truman was re-elected Summer: Dylan began work on three in team events before this. Germany and Japan President of the USA. film scripts for Gainsborough Films. Ø August 21st-24th: Glamorgan Cricket were banned. None were made as the company went Club beat Hampshire to take the Ø July 5th: The National into liquidation. County Championship for the first Health Service was set time ever. The captain was Wilfred up by the Welsh MP and October: Margaret Taylor visited Wooller. Health Minister – Laugharne and bought the Boathouse Ø October 12th: The Hoover factory in Aneurin Bevan. for Dylan and his family. Merthyr was opened. Ø October 27th: The Welsh Tourist Board was set up to promote tourism in Wales.

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1949 March 4th: Dylan visited Prague for a Ø April 1st: The Welsh Joint Education Ø March 25th: Sir Ø April 4th: NATO – North few days as a guest of the Czechoslovak Committee (WJEC) was set up to Laurence Olivier won an Atlantic Treaty Writers’ Union. promote education in Wales and Oscar for his Organisation, was set up unify policy across the country. performance in the film to protect the countries May: Dylan, Caitlin and family moved to Ø July 23rd: The Welsh Folk Dancing Hamlet. of the west. the Boathouse in Laugharne and his Society was formed in Shrewsbury by Ø July 27th: In Hatfield, Ø April 18th: Republic of parents to Pelican, a house opposite Lois Blake. Hertfordshire the first Ireland was formed. Brown’s Hotel in Laugharne. Ø September 21st: A meteorite passenger jet aeroplane Ø October 1st: China weighing 5 pounds fell through the was flown. became a Communist July 24th: Colm Garan Hart Thomas, roof of the Prince Llewelyn Hotel in Republic under the their third child was born. Beddgelert, north Wales. No one was leadership of Mao injured. Zedong. Ø November: 3,100 acres between Pontypool and Newport were designated for the purpose of building a new town in Wales. This turned the small town of Cwmbrân with 12,000 people into a larger town of 35,000 inhabitants. Ø December 17th: BBC transmitter opened in Sutton Coldfield leading to many in Wales being able to receive a television signal for the first time. Ø Ø Ø 1950 February 20th: Dylan flew to New York Ø March 11th: the Welsh rugby triumph Ø May 30th: petrol Ø January 26th: In New to begin his first tour of the United of winning the Triple Crown was rationing ended. Delhi, India was States organised by John Malcolm shadowed by the death of 80 Ø November 2nd: The proclaimed a republic. Brinnin. supporters in an air crash during Irish author and Ø June 17th: First ever landing in Llandow near Bridgend, as playwright, George kidney transplant in February 23rd: Dylan’s first reading, at the supporters returned from Bernard Shaw died. He Chicago from a dead the Kaufmann Auditorium, New York. watching the game in Belfast. All but was also one of the person to a woman by 3 of the passengers and crew were founders of the London the surgeon R.H. Lawler. June 1st: Dylan returned to Britain on killed. School of Economics. 28

board the Queen Elizabeth having given Ø August: at the National Eisteddfod at least 39 readings and lectures all over held at Caerffili the ‘Welsh language the USA and Canada. only rule’ was established. Ø September 21st: Freddie Williams of September: Caitlin was told by Margaret Port Talbot became the World Taylor that Dylan had An American Speedway Champion (motor bike). He mistress – Pearl Kazin, and that she had won it again in 1953. arrived in London. This provoked the first crisis in their marriage.

1951 January/February: Dylan visited Persia Ø Protest held in Wales to try and stop Ø April 19th: The first Ø May 14th: South Africa to write a film script for the Anglo- the War Office from taking land for ‘Miss World’ voted to remove the right Iranian Oil Company. Caitlin wrote to military purposes. Areas affected competition was held in of ‘coloured’ (mixed race) him suggesting that the marriage was were Preseli, Pembrokeshire, London, with Miss people to vote. over. Tregaron, Ceredigion and Sweden being crowned. Ø September 8th: Japan Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd. Ø May 4th: Festival of signed a peace treaty February: Dylan and Caitlin were Ø March 6th: Ivor Novello, the Britain opened in with 48 other nations, reconciled. composer, performer and writer died. London. putting an official end to He was 58 years old. Ø October 26th: the Second World War. July: John Malcolm Brinnin, Dylan’s Ø July 3rd: Gwenoline Davies, Conservative party win American agent, and the photographer Gregynog, died. She and her sister the General Election Rollie McKenna stayed with Dylan and collected famous work of art from all and Winston Churchill Caitlin in Laugharne and discussed the over the world. These were left to the became Prime Minister. possibility of another American trip. National Museum of Wales and formed the backbone of the Summer / Autumn: Dylan wrote a great collection of the National Museum of deal at Laugharne including: ‘Lament’, Wales. ‘Poem on His Birthday’, ‘Do not go Ø July 11th: Margam Steel works, Port gentle ’, ‘Prologue’ Talbot was opened. By 1963 it and half of . employed more than 17,000 people. Ø October 18th: Snowdonia National Margaret Taylor acquired 54 Delancy Park was set up to protect the 29

Street, Camben Town – so that the environment and a place of natural Thomases would have a London home beauty. as well.

1952 January 20th: Dylan and Caitlin Ø February 29th: Pembrokeshire Ø February 6th: King Ø June 15th: Diary of Ann departed for the United Sates on board National Park was opened. George VI died and Frank, the girl who hid the Queen Mary. This tour lasted until Ø June 11th: Aer Lingus provided an air Elizabeth II became from the Nazis in May 16th. service for passengers between Queen. Amsterdam during the Rhoose, Cardiff and Dublin in Ireland. Ø February 26th: British war, was published. During this time Dylan recorded a Ø October 7th: The alcam works at Government announced Ø July 26th: Eva Peron, selection of his poems for Caedmon Trostre, Llanelli was opened, securing that they had an atomic (Evita) wife of the records. thousands of jobs. This was a part of bomb. Argentine president, the National Steel Works Company. Ø May 16th: MPs voted in died. November 10th: Collected Poems 1934- favour of equal pay for Ø August: Olympic Games 1952 was published y JM Dent & Sons women doing the same held in Helsinki in Finland. Ltd. jobs as men. Ø November 4th: Dwight D. Eisenhower was elected December 16th: DJ Thomas, Dylan’s USA president. father, died in Laugharne aged 76. He was buried in Pontypridd alongside his brother Arthur after a non-religious ceremony.

1953 April 16th: Dylan’s sister Nancy, died of Ø January 23rd: Welsh Tourist Board Ø February: Hurricane Ø March 5th: Soviet leader cancer in Bombay. came under scrutiny for announcing winds, heavy rain and Joseph Stalin died. that they intended to hold a Miss high tides brought Ø May 29th: Tenzing April 21st: Dylan left for New York to Wales competition. disaster to Britain’s east Norgay and Edmund begin his third American tour. During Ø March 1st: BBC broadcast of the first coast. At least 280 Hillary climbed to the this tour he had an affair with Liz Reitell. ever tv programme in the Welsh people were drowned summit of Everest, the language. on the coast of tallest mountain in the June 3rd – Dylan returned to London. Ø August: Rhyl National Eisteddfod, a Lincolnshire and Kent. world. 30

woman won the crown for the first Ø March 26th: Successful Ø April: Scientists October 19th: Dylan left for New York to time, her name was Dilys Cadwaladr. tests to find a vaccine discovered the structure begin his fourth and final American tour. against polio. of DNA in all living things. Ø June 2nd: Queen October 29th: Dylan’s last ever public Elizabeth II was engagement - a lunchtime reading at crowned in a ceremony the City College of New York. at Westminster Abbey and was shown to November 5th: Dylan collapsed at the television viewers all Chelsea Hotel, New York around the world.

November 9th: Dylan died at St Vincent’s Hospital and Caitlin brought his body back to Laugharne.

November 25th: Dylan’s funeral at Laugharne.

1954 January 25th: First BBC broadcast of Under Milk Wood – with Richard Burton starring as First Voice.

1958 August: Dylan’s mother – Florence, died in Laugharne.

1982 Plaque to Dylan unveiled in Poet’s Corner, Westminster Abbey

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