| 10-4000BC |
Mesolithic or
Middle Stone Age |
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Cave Dwellers in Priory Farm Cave |
| 4000-2500BC |
Neolithic or
New Stone Age |
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Evidence of cromlechs nearby at Angle and Manorbier |
| 2,500-800BC |
Bronze Age
Stone Henge
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Evidence of settlements, burial barrows & standing stones.
Bronze Age Hoard in Catshole Cave |
800BC-
43AD |
Iron Age
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Evidence of Iron Age forts throughout the area |
| 43 AD |
Roman Invasion of Britain |
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No evidence of Roman occupation but
Roman coins found in the Castle . |
| 446 AD |
Roman rule ends and the Dark Age descents. Also known as the
Age of Saints |
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Early Christian sites at
St Daniels & Monkton |
877 |
Saxon/ Viking Invaders |
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Viking Settlements
Hubba in Miford Haven with a fleet of 23 ships
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| 1066 |
Norman Invasion
William I
The Conqueror |
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Rhys ap Tewdur holds the Normans at bay |
| 1087 |
William II |
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1093 Rhys killed & Arnulf de Montgomery establishes Pembroke Castle |
| 1100- |
Henry I |
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1100 Nest marries Gerald de Windsor, Castellan of Pembroke
1130 Henry grants Pembroke's first charter
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| 1135 |
Stephen v Matilda
Civil War in England |
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Gruffudd ap Rhys leads Welsh insurgence
1136 Gwenllian killed in battle at Kidwelly
1138 Earldom of Pembroke created -
Gilbert de Clare created first Earl
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1154
1170 |
Henry II
Murder of Becket |
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1154 Henry grants Pembroke's new charter
The Lord Rhys received by Henry II at Pembroke
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| 1170 |
Conquest of Ireland |
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Pembroke's Geraldines lead the Invasion
1171 Henry at Pembroke Castle
1176 death of Strongbow.
Infant heiress Isabel made a royal ward -
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| 1189 |
Richard !
(Lionheart) |
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William Marshal acting Regent for Richard.
1199 marries Isabel& becomes Earl of Pembroke
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1199
1215 |
John
Magna Carta |
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1199 Grants new charter to Pembroke
1200 Pembroke Castle enlarged & Donjob added
1210 John in Pembroke assembling a force at Kingsbridge en route to Ireland.
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| 1216 |
Henry III |
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1219 Death of William Marshal - succeeded by son William Marshal II
1245 Joan inherits Earldom & marries William de Valence |
| 1264 |
Simon de Montfort- forces Henry to summon parliament |
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Welsh War under Llewellyn the Great -
Pembroke threatened but manages to buy off Llewllyn |
1272
1283
1305 |
Edward I
Llewellyn murdered-end of Welsh Wars
William Wallace executed |
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1282-3 - De Valence commands the King's army in West Wales
1296 Death of Willam - Joan administers Earldom until her death |
1307
1314
1327 |
Edward II
Robert the Bruce
defeats English in Scotland
Edward mudered
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1307 Aymer de Valence becomes Earl of Pembroke
1314 Aymer commands English forces in Scotland - defeated at Bannockburn
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1327
1346
1348 |
Edward III
Battle of Crecy -
Hundred Years War
The Black Death
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1339 Lawrence Hastings becomes Earl
1347 captures French fleet at Calais
1349 Plague strikes Pembroke
1368 John Hastings inherits Earldom
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1377
1381
1399 |
Richard III
Peasants Revolt
Richard murdered in Pontefract Castle |
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1389?-John Hastings killed
King claims Pembroke ending the title Earl of Pembroke |
1399
1400 |
Henry IV
Henry Bolingbroke
Owen Glyndwr's Revolt |
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1405 Pembroke on alert as French invade |
1413
1415
1422
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Henry V
Battle of Agincourt
Henry dies leaving infant son
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1422
1452
1461
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Henry VI
The Wars of the Roses
Henry deposed - Yorkist Edward proclaimed King |
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Queen Catherine marries Owen Tudor
1454 Jaspar Tudor made Earl of Pembroke
1457 birth of Henry Tudor in Pembroke Castle
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1461
1470
1471 |
Edward IV
Henry VI restored
Battle of Tewkesbury - Edward IV triumphant
Henry murdered. |
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1461 Earldom granted to William Herbert
1470 Jasper and Henry return to Pembroke
1471 Jasper and Henry escape to Brittany - Henry becomes the Lancastrian heir after Prince Edward's death. |
1483
1485 |
Richard III
seizes power & puts Princes in the Tower
Battle of Bosworth |
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1485 Richard grants Pembroke new charter instituting a mayor and corporation
1485 Henry Tudor returns with an army landing at Dale, Pembrokeshire
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| 1485 |
Henry VII
The Tudor Age |
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1485 The Ealdom of Pembroke again granted to Jasper
Henry Tudor, later Henry VIII, inherits Earldom on Jasper's death |
1509
1536
1536 |
Henry VIII
Act of Union of England & Wales
Dissolution of the monasteries
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1532 Anne Boleyn made Marchioness of Pembroke (executed 1536)
Earldom of Pembroke abolished
Monkton Priory dissolved
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| 1543 |
2nd Act of Union |
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Haverfordwest granted county status & effectivley becomes County Town
Loss of of Pembroke's privieged position meant years of decline during Tudor times |
| 1558 |
Elizabeth I |
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| 1603 |
James I
The Stuart Dynasty leads to the United Kingdom |
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James grants a new Charter to Pembroke
James sells castle to the Pryses of Gogerddan
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1625
1642
1646
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Charles I
Civil War
End of First Civil War
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Pembroke, led by its Mayor John Poyer, declares for Parliament
1645 Poyer Governor of Pembroke Castle- |
1648
1649 |
Second Civil War
Execution of Charles I |
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1648 Poyer delivers first shots of Second Civil War
Cromwell supervises the siege of Pembroke
Execution of Poyer
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1649
1653 |
The Interregnum
Cromwell becomes Lord Protector |
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Cromwell orders destruction of Pembroke castle |
| 1660 |
Charles II &
The Restoration of the Monarchy |
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Pembroke never again plays a prominent part in national affairs.
During the peace which follows Pembroke
gradually benefits from the growth in trade |
1700
1797 |
Eighteenth Century
The Last Invasion |
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1724 Daniel Defoe visits Pembroke "A prosperous port .."
Owens of Orielton & 1710 Election
John Wesley preaches at Pembroke
Escape of the French from Golden Prison
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1800
1834
1837 |
Nineteenth Century
New Poor Law
Queen Victoria crowned |
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1814 Founding of Pembroke Dock
1829 Turner paints Pembroke Castle
1839 Pembroke Union Workhouse built
1863 Pembroke & Tenby Railway Act
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| 1900 |
Moden Times |
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End of the port - Kathleen&May last ship to visit in 1952
1954 Mill burns down
Post war expansion
The Pembroke Conservation Area 1977
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