939 Edmund I succeeded Athelstan as King of England.
1644 The Second Battle of Newbury in the English Civil War took place in Speen, adjoining Newbury in Berkshire. The combined armies of Parliament inflicted a tactical defeat on the Royalists, but failed to gain any strategic advantage.
1627 English invasion force under Duke of Buckingham abandons assault on French fortress of Saint Martin on Île de Ré, returning with just 2989 troops out of nearly 7000.
1662 Charles II of England sold the coastal town of Dunkirk to King Louis XIV of France.
The earliest dated evidence of mining for gold at the Dolaucothi Gold Mine in Carmarthenshire is 27th October 1797 in the diary of John Johnes of Dolaucothi who records making a contract to sink a shaft.
It is thought that the mine at Dolaucothi was first opened in the late Bronze Age, perhaps as early as 600 BC. However, serious excavation commenced in approximately 75 AD during the Roman rule of Britain. The Romans used slaves for the hard manual labour of extracting the gold deposits, which were destined for the Imperial Mint in Lyon.
Following the Romans' departure from Britain, it wasn't until the 17th or 18th centuries that mining recommenced at the site on a small scale but it was in the 19th that there was expansion beyond the original open cast and a large amount of ore was extracted during the 1930s. However, by 1938 it was deemed that the mine was no longer economically viable and it was shut down. It is now a Scheduled Ancient Monument and owned by the National Trust.
1810 United States annexes West Florida from Spain.
1838 Missouri governor Lilburn Boggs issues the Extermination Order, which orders all Mormons to leave the state or be exterminated.
On October 27th 1913, South Wales experienced a tornado which was described as 'unusually destructive'.
The storm was short, but the damage it caused was extensive. It was at its worst at Edwardsville, where a man and a small boy were killed, houses were destroyed, and trees uprooted.
That cyclone was awful, and we can all be grateful such events are extremely rare - though I understand Holland and the British Isles have more of them than anywhere in the world. Most are very low-powered and short-lived, of course.
Britain also has an unusually large number of earthquakes.
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I thought gold-mining had re-started at Dolaucothi - or am I mistaking it for another location in Wales?
Curiously, it's evidently an American web-site, shown by the spellings, and the phrase wedding band.
It also maintains the common misunderstanding that coal is need for making steel. It isn't. It's for making iron, from the ore; and then having been distilled to coke as both fuel and reducing-agent. Sadly, too many of those outside the industry but should know these things, do not know iron from steel, and seem not to grasp that Iron is the world's most valuable (not costly, valuable) metal element.
That "restoration phase" to describe Ffos-y-Fran is of course a euphemism for enforced closure.
Its closure means the former customers of its high-quality product now have to make do with whatever coal they can import. That is often of dubious quality, very poor economically and adding the ships' and additional lorry journeys' exhaust CO2 to that produced by the relatively small use of the coal itself.
@TheSirfurryanimalWales I wonder if governors of US states can do things like that unilaterally? Or do they need agreement in the state legislature first?
@TheSirfurryanimalWales I've just looked it up on Wikipedia. It seems that not only was it possible for governor Boggs to unilaterally issue the order it stood for almost one and a half centuries (though presumably without effect for most of that time)!
In 1976, citing its unconstitutional nature, Missouri governor Kit Bond formally rescinded it.
