Historical place archive

Menai Straits in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Menai Straits in Great Britain. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

2 records1 event labels2 people1826–1850

Historical events in Menai Straits

1826

1826
Menai Bridge
Thomas Telford · Architecture

Completes the construction of the Menai Suspension Bridge

1850

1850
Menai Bridge
Robert Stevenson · Architecture

Completes the suspension bridge & opens it to traffic

Provenance

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Great Britain and Menai Straits. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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