{"slug": "saints-cyril-and-methodius", "label": "Saints Cyril and Methodius", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saints_Cyril_and_Methodius", "wikidata": null, "qid": null, "description": null, "entries": 11, "years": 11, "span": [815, 886], "span_label": ["815 CE", "886 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Births", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}], "related": [{"slug": "great-moravia", "label": "Great Moravia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "khazars", "label": "Khazars", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "first-bulgarian-empire", "label": "First Bulgarian Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "latin", "label": "Latin", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-john-viii", "label": "Pope John VIII", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 815, "year_label": "815 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Methodius, Byzantine missionary and bishop (d. 885)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348647036#Births", "title": "815", "revid": 1348647036, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 826, "year_label": "826 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Cyril, Byzantine missionary and bishop (d. 885)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941323#Births", "title": "826", "revid": 1340941323, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 827, "year_label": "827 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Cyril, Byzantine missionary and bishop (d. 869)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941309#Births", "title": "827", "revid": 1340941309, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 855, "year_label": "855 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Slavic alphabet is created by Saints Cyril and Methodius.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350256482#Religion", "title": "855", "revid": 1350256482, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 860, "year_label": "860 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius arrive in Khazaria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367666755#Religion", "title": "860", "revid": 1367666755, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 862, "year_label": "862 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Constantine the Philosopher (alias Saint Cyril) invents the 42-letter Slavonic alphabet (Cyrillic script) as a tool for converting the Moravians to Christianity (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129421#Religion", "title": "862", "revid": 1341129421, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 863, "year_label": "863 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius arrive with a few disciples in Moravia, by request of Prince Rastislav.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1322668706#Religion", "title": "863", "revid": 1322668706, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 869, "year_label": "869 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 14", "text": "February 14 – Cyril, Byzantine missionary and bishop", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369351830#Deaths", "title": "869", "revid": 1369351830, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 880, "year_label": "880 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Pope John VIII issues the bull Industriae Tuae, creating an independent ecclesiastical province in Great Moravia, with archbishop Methodius as its head. Old Church Slavonic is recognized as the fourth liturgical language, besides Latin, Greek and Hebrew.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372561483#Religion", "title": "880", "revid": 1372561483, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 885, "year_label": "885 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – Methodius, Byzantine missionary and bishop (b. 815)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366655145#Deaths", "title": "885", "revid": 1366655145, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 886, "year_label": "886 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Glagolitic alphabet, devised by Cyril and Methodius, missionaries from Constantinople, is adopted in the Bulgarian Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367666946#Religion", "title": "886", "revid": 1367666946, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}]}