{"slug": "iona-abbey", "label": "Iona Abbey", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona_Abbey", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q198409", "qid": "Q198409", "description": "abbey in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [563, 1203], "span_label": ["563 CE", "1203 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 5}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "adomnan", "label": "Adomnán", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "iona", "label": "Iona", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ireland", "label": "Ireland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "easter", "label": "Easter", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "picts", "label": "Picts", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "inner-hebrides", "label": "Inner Hebrides", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "columba", "label": "Columba", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "northumbria", "label": "Northumbria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ecgfrith-of-northumbria", "label": "Ecgfrith of Northumbria", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 563, "year_label": "563 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Columba, Irish missionary monk, travels to Scotland with twelve companions. He lands on the Kintyre Peninsula, near Southend, and begins his evangelising mission to the Picts. On the island of Iona, he founds a monastery (Iona Abbey) on the west coast in the Inner Hebrides.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340800810#Religion", "title": "563", "revid": 1340800810, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 679, "year_label": "679 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Adomnán, clerical lawyer, becomes abbot of the monastery of Iona Abbey, located on the island of Iona (modern Scotland).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349204947#Religion", "title": "AD 679", "revid": 1349204947, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 687, "year_label": "687 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Adomnán, Irish abbot of Iona, visits the court of King Ecgfrith, to ransom Irish captives (60 Gaels who had been captured in a Northumbrian raid).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806293#Britain", "title": "687", "revid": 1340806293, "section": "Events › By place › Europe › Britain"}}, {"year": 697, "year_label": "697 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Council of Birr: The northern part of Ireland accepts the Roman calculations for celebrating Easter. At this synod Adomnán, abbot of Iona (Scotland), promulgates his Cáin Adomnáin (\"Law of the Innocents\").", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361010652#Religion", "title": "697", "revid": 1361010652, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 802, "year_label": "802 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Vikings plunder the treasures of Iona Abbey, on the west coast of Scotland (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848783#Britain", "title": "802", "revid": 1340848783, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1203, "year_label": "1203 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Ragnall mac Somairle, a Scottish nobleman, invites Benedictine monks to establish the abbey of Iona.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369187440#Religion", "title": "1203", "revid": 1369187440, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}]}