/year

Iona Abbey

abbey in Argyll and Bute, Scotland, UK

6 dated entries naming Iona Abbey, drawn from 6 separate years between 563 CE and 1203 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

JSONWikipedia articleWikidata Q198409

6th century

  • 563Columba, 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.source

7th century

  • 679Adomnán, clerical lawyer, becomes abbot of the monastery of Iona Abbey, located on the island of Iona (modern Scotland).source
  • 687Adomnán, Irish abbot of Iona, visits the court of King Ecgfrith, to ransom Irish captives (60 Gaels who had been captured in a Northumbrian raid).source
  • 697Council 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").source

9th century

  • 802The Vikings plunder the treasures of Iona Abbey, on the west coast of Scotland (approximate date).source

13th century

  • 1203Ragnall mac Somairle, a Scottish nobleman, invites Benedictine monks to establish the abbey of Iona.source

Named in the same entries