1639: The Royal Council had complained that the amount of Ship Money sent to the Exchequer by the authorities in Glamorgan was £23 short and the sheriff was rebuked for his ‘neglect’. He was not to blame. The £23 was the amount owed by the town of Cardiff rather than the shire and was therefore the responsibility of the Bailiff rather than the sheriff. It was duly paid on this date. (Lloyd Bowen, The Politics of the Principality, University of Wales Press, 2007)
1836: In a report to the Directors of the Gloucester and South Wales Railway, Isambard Kingdom Brunel recommends that ‘a line from Gloucester by way of Newnham and Chepstow to Newport and thence to Cardiff would be a really easy route to build’. (Stephen K. Jones, Brunel in South Wales, Vol.2, The History Press, 2006)
1914: Cardiff-owned ship Cornish City was sunk by the German cruiser Karlsruhe 250 miles off the coast of Brazil. She had been sailing from Barry to Rio de Janiero with a cargo of 5,500 tons of coal and was the first Cardiff vessel to be lost in the First World War. Her crew was rescued and later landed in Brazil. (John Richards, Cardiff: A Maritime History, The History Press, 2005)