{"slug": "presbyterianism", "label": "Presbyterianism", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterianism", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178169", "qid": "Q178169", "description": "branch of Protestant Christianity using presbyterian church government and originating in the British Isles", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1582, 1972], "span_label": ["1582 CE", "1972 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Prebysterian", "Presbyterian"], "related": [{"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "james-vi-and-i", "label": "James VI and I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jesus", "label": "Jesus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bible", "label": "Bible", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anglicanism", "label": "Anglicanism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "archbishop", "label": "Archbishop", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1582, "year_label": "1582 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 23", "text": "August 23 – Raid of Ruthven in Scotland: Presbyterian nobles led by William Ruthven, 1st Earl of Gowrie kidnap King James VI of Scotland, the kingdom's 16-year-old ruler, while he is hunting in Perthshire. The Earl of Gowrie imprisons the King at Ruthven Castle as part of a coup d'etat to reform the Scottish government.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373325265#July–September", "title": "1582", "revid": 1373325265, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1630, "year_label": "1630 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – Scottish-born Presbyterian (and former physician) Alexander Leighton is brought before Archbishop William Laud's Star Chamber court in London for publishing the seditious pamphlet An Appeale to the Parliament, or, Sions Plea Against the Prelacy, an attack on Anglican bishops (printed in the Netherlands, 1628). He is sentenced to be pilloried and whipped, have his ears cropped, one side of his nose slit, and his face branded with \"SS\" (for \"sower of sedition\"), to be imprisoned, and be degraded from holy orders.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351974391#April–June", "title": "1630", "revid": 1351974391, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1836, "year_label": "1836 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The first printed literature in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic is produced by Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary in Persia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368342504#Date_unknown", "title": "1836", "revid": 1368342504, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1852, "year_label": "1852 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Justin Perkins, an American Presbyterian missionary, produces the first translation of the Bible in Assyrian Neo-Aramaic, which is published with the parallel text of the Syriac Peshitta, by the American Bible Society.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354165010#Date_unknown", "title": "1852", "revid": 1354165010, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1935, "year_label": "1935 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 17", "text": "April 17 – Sun Myung Moon, a teenage Presbyterian convert in Korea under Japanese rule, claims to have a revelation from Jesus, telling him to complete his mission from almost 2,000 years ago.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370722923#April", "title": "1935", "revid": 1370722923, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1972, "year_label": "1972 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "October 5", "text": "October 5 – The United Reformed Church in England is founded out of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371514417#October", "title": "1972", "revid": 1371514417, "section": "Events › October"}}]}