{"slug": "iona", "label": "Iona", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q610", "qid": "Q610", "description": "island off the west coast of Scotland, UK", "entries": 10, "years": 10, "span": [563, 1994], "span_label": ["563 CE", "1994 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "inner-hebrides", "label": "Inner Hebrides", "shared": 6}, {"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "ireland", "label": "Ireland", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "picts", "label": "Picts", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "monastery", "label": "Monastery", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "edinburgh", "label": "Edinburgh", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "northumbria", "label": "Northumbria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "great-britain", "label": "Great Britain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lindisfarne", "label": "Lindisfarne", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "episcopal-see", "label": "Episcopal see", "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": 597, "year_label": "597 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 9", "text": "June 9 – Columba, Irish missionary, dies in Iona (Inner Hebrides) and is buried by his monks in the abbey he has created. He works successfully towards the conversion of northern Britain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755884#Religion", "title": "597", "revid": 1364755884, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 634, "year_label": "634 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Aidan of Lindisfarne, Irish missionary, is summoned by King Oswald from Iona (Inner Hebrides) to establish a bishopric on the holy island of Lindisfarne, and reestablish Christianity in Northumbria (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1299946990#Religion", "title": "634", "revid": 1299946990, "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": 680, "year_label": "680 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Book of Durrow is created, probably in Northumbria or on the island of Iona in the Scottish Inner Hebrides.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331672551#Religion", "title": "680", "revid": 1331672551, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 685, "year_label": "685 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Aldfrith, illegitimate half-brother of Ecgfrith, becomes (possibly with Irish and Scottish help) king of Northumbria. He is brought from Iona (Inner Hebrides), where he is studying for a career in the church.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749113#Britain", "title": "685", "revid": 1364749113, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 717, "year_label": "717 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Nechtan mac Der-Ilei, king of the Picts, expels the monks from the island of Iona (Scotland).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340808622#Religion", "title": "717", "revid": 1340808622, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 795, "year_label": "795 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "In the earliest recorded Viking raid on Ireland, they attack the monasteries at Iona (Inner Hebrides), Inishbofin and Inishmurray (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848647#Europe", "title": "795", "revid": 1340848647, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 806, "year_label": "806 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Vikings massacre Columba's monks, and all the inhabitants on the island of Iona (Scotland). Other monks flee to safety in the monastery of Kells (Ireland). They take with them the Book of Kells.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292643508#Britain", "title": "806", "revid": 1292643508, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1994, "year_label": "1994 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 20", "text": "May 20 – After a funeral in Cluny Parish Church, Edinburgh attended by 900 people and after which 3,000 people line the streets, UK Labour Party leader John Smith is buried in a private family funeral on the island of Iona, at the sacred burial ground of Reilig Odhráin, which contains the graves of several Scottish kings as well as monarchs of Ireland, Norway and France.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369917016#May", "title": "1994", "revid": 1369917016, "section": "Events › May"}}]}