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| c. 2500 BC |
| | | A stone pestle and mortar is made at the neolithic site of Merthyr Mawr, in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales | |
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| | | Agricola, appointed Roman governor of Britain in AD 77, establishes Chester as a stronghold from which to control the Welsh tribes | |
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| c. 580 |
| | | St David founds monasteries in Wales and makes his base at Mynyw, a place now known after him as St David's | |
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| c. 780 |
| | | The Anglo-Saxons have a name for the Celts west of Offa's dyke - wealas or Welsh, meaning foreigners | |
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| 878 |
| | | Rhodri Mawr, or Rhodri the Great, is widely accepted as king of almost the whole of Wales | |
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