{"slug": "covenanters", "label": "Covenanters", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenanters", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1138040", "qid": "Q1138040", "description": "Scottish religious movement", "entries": 11, "years": 9, "span": [1639, 1893], "span_label": ["1639 CE", "1893 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 6}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "charles-ii-of-england", "label": "Charles II of England", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "edinburgh", "label": "Edinburgh", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charles-i-of-england", "label": "Charles I of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "berwick-upon-tweed", "label": "Berwick-upon-Tweed", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "orkney", "label": "Orkney", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1639, "year_label": "1639 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 28", "text": "May 28 – King Charles I of England arrives with his army at Berwick-upon-Tweed as the first of the Bishops' Wars breaks out between the English Army and the Scottish Covenanters.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360051116#April–June", "title": "1639", "revid": 1360051116, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1645, "year_label": "1645 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 30", "text": "July 30 – English Civil War: Scottish Covenanters under Lord Leven begin the Siege of Hereford, a Royalist stronghold.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370309626#July–September", "title": "1645", "revid": 1370309626, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1645, "year_label": "1645 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 13", "text": "September 13 – Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms: Battle of Philiphaugh – The Covenanters under Sir David Leslie defeat the Royalists under Montrose near Selkirk in the Scottish Borders, restoring the power of the Committee of Estates. After the battle, prisoners and 300 camp followers (many of them women and children) are slaughtered by Covenanters in cold blood.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370309626#July–September", "title": "1645", "revid": 1370309626, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1666, "year_label": "1666 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 28", "text": "November 28 – The Battle of Rullion Green takes place in the Pentland Hills near Midlothian in Scotland as the culmination of the brief 'Pentland Rising' which began on November 15 as a rebellion by the Covenanters who oppose changes in the Church of Scotland. At least 2,000 men of the Scottish Royal Army, led by General Thomas Dalyell, defeat more than 750 Covenanter rebels who have been under the command of James Wallace of Auchens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988943#October–December", "title": "1666", "revid": 1365988943, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1679, "year_label": "1679 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 10", "text": "December 10 – More than 200 captives on the ship The Crown of London, all Scottish Covenanters arrested after the battle of Bothwell Bridge, are killed when the ship is wrecked on the Orkney Islands while transporting the group to exile in North America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366669253#October–December", "title": "1679", "revid": 1366669253, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1679, "year_label": "1679 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 3", "text": "May 3 – James Sharp, the Church of Scotland's Archbishop of St Andrews, is assassinated at Magus Muir in Fife, when his coach is ambushed by a group of nine of the Scottish Covenanters. Only two of the assassins, David Hackston and Andrew Guillan, are captured.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366669253#April–June", "title": "1679", "revid": 1366669253, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1680, "year_label": "1680 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 22", "text": "June 22 – The Sanquhar Declaration, written by Richard Cameron, leader of the Covenanters who oppose the control of religion in Scotland by King Charles, is read aloud by Richard's brother Michael Cameron at the public square in the village of Sanquhar in Dumfriesshire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365997201#April–June", "title": "1680", "revid": 1365997201, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1682, "year_label": "1682 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "January 12", "text": "January 12 – Scottish minister James Renwick, one of the Covenanters resisting the Scottish government's suppression of alternate religious views, publishes the Declaration of Lanark.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560956#January–March", "title": "1682", "revid": 1369560956, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1684, "year_label": "1684 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November 8", "text": "November 8 – James Renwick, a Scottish minister and one of the \"Covenanters\" challenging the attempt by Kings James VI and Charles I to take over churches in Scotland, posts his \"Apologetical Declaration\" on church doors and market crosses in and around Cambusnethan, Lanarkshire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366005630#October–December", "title": "1684", "revid": 1366005630, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1688, "year_label": "1688 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 17", "text": "February 17 – James Renwick, the last of the Covenanters in Scotland to be martyred for opposing the authority of King Charles II, is publicly hanged at Grassmarket square in Edinburgh.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373154069#January–March", "title": "1688", "revid": 1373154069, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 8", "text": "April 8 – The first recorded college basketball game occurs in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, between the Geneva College Covenanters and the New Brighton YMCA.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369946190#April", "title": "1893", "revid": 1369946190, "section": "Events › April"}}]}