{"slug": "kilkenny", "label": "Kilkenny", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilkenny", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q109092", "qid": "Q109092", "description": "city in County Kilkenny, Ireland", "entries": 23, "years": 19, "span": [1225, 1710], "span_label": ["1225 CE", "1710 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 10}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "cavalier", "label": "Cavalier", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "dublin", "label": "Dublin", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "october", "label": "October", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "edward-iii", "label": "Edward III", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "church-of-ireland", "label": "Church of Ireland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dominican-order", "label": "Dominican Order", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christmas", "label": "Christmas", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "black-death", "label": "Black Death", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "oliver-cromwell", "label": "Oliver Cromwell", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "synod", "label": "Synod", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "commonwealth-of-england", "label": "Commonwealth of England", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1225, "year_label": "1225 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Dominican Order founds the 'Black Abbey', lying just off Parliament Street in Kilkenny.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318603675#Events", "title": "1225 in Ireland", "revid": 1318603675, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1251, "year_label": "1251 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Saint Canice's Cathedral built in Kilkenny.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318604184#Events", "title": "1251 in Ireland", "revid": 1318604184, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1302, "year_label": "1302 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Fulk de la Freigne becomes seneschal of the Liberty of Kilkenny.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1264642536#Events", "title": "1302 in Ireland", "revid": 1264642536, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1310, "year_label": "1310 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 9", "text": "9 February Parliament at Kilkenny. Law passed against reception of Irishmen as members of Anglo-Irish religious houses", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332057291#Events", "title": "1310 in Ireland", "revid": 1332057291, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1324, "year_label": "1324 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 3", "text": "November 3 – At Kilkenny in Ireland, Petronilla de Meath, the maidservant of Dame Alice Kyteler, becomes the first person in the British Isles to be burned at the stake as a witch. Dame Alice had been able to escape before capture.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1303312513#October_–_December", "title": "1324", "revid": 1303312513, "section": "Events › October – December"}}, {"year": 1341, "year_label": "1341 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October", "text": "October – parliament at Dublin is adjourned to Kilkenny (held in November). Petitions critical of administration are sent to Edward III.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323560963#Events", "title": "1341 in Ireland", "revid": 1323560963, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1346, "year_label": "1346 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 27", "text": "27 July – Roger de la Freigne, Sheriff of Kilkenny, \"seized a great prey over Cearbhall Mac Giollaphádraig and over his men such as had rearely been taken in those parts, remembered by men for many years.\" [8].", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1264638973#Events", "title": "1346 in Ireland", "revid": 1264638973, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1347, "year_label": "1347 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "\"On the same day at Kilkenny, Lady Isabella Palmer, who had built the front of the friars choir, was committed to the earth; she had reached a praiseworthy old age and, having lived about 70 years religiously and honourably in her widowhood and in virginity, as it was said and believed, she passed from this life.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323562111#Events", "title": "1347 in Ireland", "revid": 1323562111, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1349, "year_label": "1349 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Christmas to March – the Black Death: \"The pestilence gathered strength in Kilkenny during Lent ... there was scarcely a house in which only one died.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370789467#Events", "title": "1349 in Ireland", "revid": 1370789467, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1350, "year_label": "1350 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 25", "text": "25 June – Great council at Kilkenny.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370789548#Events", "title": "1350 in Ireland", "revid": 1370789548, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1351, "year_label": "1351 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 31", "text": "31 October – Great council occurs in Kilkenny; ordinances to curtail Gaelisization of Anglo-Irish, and the statute of labourers applied to Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323562468#Events", "title": "1351 in Ireland", "revid": 1323562468, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1366, "year_label": "1366 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Irish Parliament at Kilkenny before Prince Lionel of Clarence, Earl of Ulster codifies the legislation of the previous 50 years in the Statutes of Kilkenny, prohibiting, among other things, the adoption of the Irish language by the colonists.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318940071#Events", "title": "1366 in Ireland", "revid": 1318940071, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1585, "year_label": "1585 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 14", "text": "14 December – Nicholas Walsh, Church of Ireland Bishop of Ossory, is stabbed to death in his house in Kilkenny by a disaffected member of his flock.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247428620#Events", "title": "1585 in Ireland", "revid": 1247428620, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1609, "year_label": "1609 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Kilkenny is granted a royal charter by James I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247388411#Events", "title": "1609 in Ireland", "revid": 1247388411, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1614, "year_label": "1614 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 22", "text": "June 22 – the Synod of Kilkenny regulates discipline and practice in the Catholic Province of Dublin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247388215#Events", "title": "1614 in Ireland", "revid": 1247388215, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1642, "year_label": "1642 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 10", "text": "May 10 – In a Catholic synod at Kilkenny, bishops draft the Confederate Oath of Association, calling on Catholics to swear allegiance to King Charles I and to obey orders and decrees made by a \"Supreme Council of the Confederate Catholics\", hence the Irish rebels of 1641 become known as Confederate Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350256188#April–June", "title": "1642", "revid": 1350256188, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1642, "year_label": "1642 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 10", "text": "10 May – in a Catholic synod at Kilkenny, bishops draft the Confederate Oath of Association, calling on Catholics to swear allegiance to Charles I and to obey orders and decrees made by a \"Supreme Council of the Confederate Catholics\", hence the rebels become known as Confederate Ireland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340290051#Events", "title": "1642 in Ireland", "revid": 1340290051, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1642, "year_label": "1642 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 24", "text": "October 24 – The first Confederate Assembly of Ireland is held in Kilkenny where it sets up a provisional government, largely Catholic Royalist; start of the Irish Confederate Wars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350256188#October–December", "title": "1642", "revid": 1350256188, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1642, "year_label": "1642 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 24", "text": "24 October – the first Confederate Assembly is held in Kilkenny where it sets up a provisional government, largely Catholic Royalist; start of the Irish Confederate Wars.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340290051#Events", "title": "1642 in Ireland", "revid": 1340290051, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1650, "year_label": "1650 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 27", "text": "27 March – Confederate Ireland's besieged capital Kilkenny is surrendered to Cromwell.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372670661#Events", "title": "1650 in Ireland", "revid": 1372670661, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1652, "year_label": "1652 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May", "text": "May – the largest Irish guerrilla forces under John Fitzpatrick (in Leinster), Edmund O'Dwyer (in Munster) and Edmund Daly (in Connacht) surrender, under terms signed at Kilkenny, allowing Irish troops to go abroad to serve in foreign armies not at war with the Commonwealth of England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247387507#Events", "title": "1652 in Ireland", "revid": 1247387507, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1710, "year_label": "1710 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "John Smithwick begins brewing Smithwick's ale at Kilkenny, Ireland (St. Francis Abbey Brewery).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358049105#Date_unknown", "title": "1710", "revid": 1358049105, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1710, "year_label": "1710 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "John Smithwick begins brewing Smithwick's ale at Kilkenny.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247386493#Events", "title": "1710 in Ireland", "revid": 1247386493, "section": "Events"}}]}