May 10th in History
May 10th
On 10th May 1372 Owain Lawgoch announced in Paris his intention of claiming the throne of Wales.
Owain Lawgoch (Owain ap Thomas ap Rhodri), the grandson of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd's brother Rhodri, was directly descended from the Royal House of Gwynedd. In 1370, Owain declared himself Prince of Gwynedd, and with the help of the French assembled a fleet with the intention of sailing for Wales. The ships were split up in bad weather and the invasion was abandoned.
Two years later he tried again, but again the weather turned against him and the fleet reached no further than Guernsey. At this point the English despatched a Scot by the name of Jon Lamb to assassinate Owain and, having infiltrated Owain's band of men, he succeeded in killing him during the siege of Mortagne in 1378. So ended the entire line of Wales’s most illustrious royal house.
1768John Wilkes (English radical, journalist, and politician) was imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton newspaper severely criticizing King George III. This action provoked rioting in London.
1773The British Parliament passed the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
1804William Pitt the younger, British prime minister, returned to office.
On 10th May 1837, 21 men and boys were killed when the Plas yr Argoed Colliery near Mold flooded. Among those killed were the father and two brothers of the novelist Daniel Owen, who is generally regarded as the foremost Welsh-language novelist of the 19th century
On 10th May 1852 tragedy fell on the village of Pontyberem when the Gwendraeth Colliery flooded killing all 26 men and boys on the night shift. It is said that it took 18 months to recover the bodies.
1916Explorer Ernest Shackleton and companions reached the Falkland island of South Georgia after sailing 800 miles in 16 days in an open boat. They were looking for help for the remaining members of their party marooned on Elephant island, Antarctica.
….1954: Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts. However its recording almost fails to take place due to the band's ferry being stuck on a sandbar en route to New York from Philadelphia.
1971: Jethro Tull play a gig in Denver in a cloud of tear gas after police fire canisters of the gas in an attempt to prevent those without tickets invading the Red Rocks Park amphitheater.
On 10th May 1372 Owain Lawgoch announced in Paris his intention of claiming the throne of Wales.
Owain Lawgoch (Owain ap Thomas ap Rhodri), the grandson of Llywelyn ap Gruffydd's brother Rhodri, was directly descended from the Royal House of Gwynedd. In 1370, Owain declared himself Prince of Gwynedd, and with the help of the French assembled a fleet with the intention of sailing for Wales. The ships were split up in bad weather and the invasion was abandoned.
Two years later he tried again, but again the weather turned against him and the fleet reached no further than Guernsey. At this point the English despatched a Scot by the name of Jon Lamb to assassinate Owain and, having infiltrated Owain's band of men, he succeeded in killing him during the siege of Mortagne in 1378. So ended the entire line of Wales’s most illustrious royal house.
1768John Wilkes (English radical, journalist, and politician) was imprisoned for writing an article for the North Briton newspaper severely criticizing King George III. This action provoked rioting in London.
1773The British Parliament passed the Tea Act, designed to save the British East India Company by granting it a monopoly on the North American tea trade.
1804William Pitt the younger, British prime minister, returned to office.
On 10th May 1837, 21 men and boys were killed when the Plas yr Argoed Colliery near Mold flooded. Among those killed were the father and two brothers of the novelist Daniel Owen, who is generally regarded as the foremost Welsh-language novelist of the 19th century
On 10th May 1852 tragedy fell on the village of Pontyberem when the Gwendraeth Colliery flooded killing all 26 men and boys on the night shift. It is said that it took 18 months to recover the bodies.
1916Explorer Ernest Shackleton and companions reached the Falkland island of South Georgia after sailing 800 miles in 16 days in an open boat. They were looking for help for the remaining members of their party marooned on Elephant island, Antarctica.
….1954: Bill Haley & His Comets release "Rock Around the Clock", the first rock and roll record to reach number one on the Billboard charts. However its recording almost fails to take place due to the band's ferry being stuck on a sandbar en route to New York from Philadelphia.
1971: Jethro Tull play a gig in Denver in a cloud of tear gas after police fire canisters of the gas in an attempt to prevent those without tickets invading the Red Rocks Park amphitheater.
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