2005 Cardiff celebrates its centenary

Cardiff (Welsh -  Caerdydd) is the capital and largest city in Wales and the tenth largest city in the United Kingdom. Cardiff was made a city in 1905, and proclaimed the capital of Wales in 1955, by a written reply by the Home Secretary Gwilym Lloyd George. The city was awarded with the European City of Sport in 2009 due to its role in hosting major international sporting events. Again Cardiff was the European City of Sport in 2014. The Millennium Stadium hosted 11 football matches as part of the 2012 Summer Olympics, including the games' opening event and the men's bronze medal match.

2004 Wales Millennium Centre

Wales Millennium Centre (Welsh - Canolfan Mileniwm Cymru) is an arts centre located in the Cardiff Bay. Phase 1 of the building was opened in 2004 and phase 2 opened in 2009 with an inaugural concert. Opening ceremony was organised by Bryn Terfel, the creative director of the whole opening weekend. The centre has hosted performances of opera, ballet, dance, comedy and musicals. The main theatre, the Donald Gordon Theatre, has 1,897 seats, the BBC Hoddinott Hall 350 and the Weston Studio Theatre 250. The inscription in the front of the building in Welsh reads: CREU GWIR FEL GWYDR O FFWRNAIS AWEN (English: Creating Truth Like Glass From Inspiration's Furnace). The inscription in English reads: IN THESE STONES HORIZONS SING.

2000 Child abuse scandal

The North Wales child abuse scandal was the subject of a three-year, £13 million investigation into the physical and sexual abuse of children in care homes in the counties of Clwyd and Gwynedd, in North Wales, including the Bryn Estyn children's home at Wrexham, between 1974 and 1990. The report into the scandal, headed by retired High Court judge Sir Ronald Waterhouse QC, which was published in 2000. In 2014, the owner of several children's residential homes in the Wrexham area, John Allen, was convicted at Mold Crown Court on 33 counts of sexual abuse against 19 boys and one girl, aged between 7 and 15, during the 1960s and 1970s. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

1995 Disappearance of Richey Edwards

Richard James Edwards (born 1967, disappeared 1995, officially presumed dead 2008) was a Welsh musician who was lyricist and rhythm guitarist of the alternative rock band Manic Street Preachers. He was born and raised in Blackwood, Caerphilly. Edwards was initially a driver and roadie for Manic Street Preachers, but he soon became accepted as the band's main spokesman and fourth member. His real contribution to Manic Street Preachers was in the words and design. It was widely believed that he took his own life by jumping from the bridge. Many people who knew him, however, have said that he was never the type to contemplate suicide.

1977 Johnny Owen wins Bantamweight Championship

John Richard Owens (1956 - 1980) was a professional boxer from Wales who fought under the name Johnny Owen. His fragile appearance earned him many epithets, including ‘the Bionic Bantam’ and ‘the Merthyr Matchstick’. He became the first ever Welsh holder of the Bantamweight Championship of the Commonwealth. He challenged champion Lupe Pintor, losing a torturously difficult contest by way of twelfth round knockout. Owen never regained consciousness, fell into a coma and died seven weeks later. Twenty years later, a memorial to Johnny Owen was unveiled in Merthyr Tydfil. At the request of the late fighter's father, the unveiling was performed by Lupe Pintor.

1966 Aberfan disaster

The Aberfan disaster was a catastrophic collapse of a colliery spoil tip in the Welsh village of Aberfan, near Merthyr Tydfil, killing 116 children and 28 adults. It was caused by a build-up of water in the accumulated rock and shale, which suddenly started to slide downhill in the form of slurry. Over 40,000 cubic metres of debris covered the village in minutes, and the classrooms at Pantglas Junior School were immediately inundated, with young children and teachers dying from impact or suffocation. A few children were pulled out alive in the first hour, but no survivors were found after 11 a.m. Rescue work had to be temporarily halted during the day when water began pouring down the slope again, and because of the vast quantity and consistency of the spoil, it was nearly a week before all the bodies were recovered.

1938 Temple of Peace and Health is opened

The Welsh National Temple of Peace and Health, is a non-religious civic building in Cardiff. Since its foundation the building has always served a dual function as headquarters for health and international affairs organisations. The Temple of Peace and Health was the brainchild of David Davies, 1st Baron Davies, and it was designed by the architect Sir Percy Thomas, who was awarded the Bronze medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects for its design. In founding this public building, Lord Davies hoped to combine the ideals of peace and health. He wanted these two great humanitarian causes to be expressed in the architectural design of the building. The foundation stone was laid by Viscount Halifax in 1937.