Sacredness

revered due to association with holiness

16 dated entries naming Sacredness, drawn from 16 separate years between 339 BCE and 1885 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.

Also written as Consecration in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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4th century BC

339 BCEDuring a meeting of the Amphictyonic Council, Philip accuses the citizens of the town of Amfissa, in Locris, of intruding on consecrated ground. The Amphictyonic Congress, with the initial support of the Athenian representative, Aeschines, decides to inflict a harsh punishment upon the Locrians. After the failure of a first military excursion against the Locrians, the summer session of the Amphictyonic Council gives command of the league's forces to Philip and asks him to lead a second excursion. Philip acts at once, and his forces pass through Thermopylae, enter Amfissa and defeat the Locrians who are led by Chares, the Athenian general and mercenary commander.source

7th century

640May 28 – Pope Severinus succeeds Honorius I as the 71st pope. He dies in Rome only two months after being consecrated.source
683June 28 – Pope Leo II dies at Rome 10 months after being consecrated.source

8th century

752March 22 – Pope Zachary dies at Rome after an 11-year reign. He is succeeded by Stephen, but he dies four days after, and is not considered legitimate because he was not consecrated.source

9th century

805The Palatine Chapel in Aachen (modern Germany) is consecrated by Pope Leo III.source
898January – Pope John IX is consecrated, and succeeds Theodore II, as the 116th pope of the Catholic Church. His rival Serguis III (a Spoletan ally of Lambert II) is excommunicated, and takes refuge at the court of Adalbert II.source

12th century

1134Consecration of Cormac’s Chapel at Cashel Building had started in 1127. It had been built by Cormac mac Carthaig, King of Munster and consecrated in the presence of a great assembly of church and royal dignitaries.source

13th century

1258September 29 – Consecration of the newly rebuilt Salisbury Cathedral in England.source

16th century

1542September 7 – Bernard O'Higgins is consecrated as Roman Catholic Bishop of Elphin.source
1543April 19 – George Dowdall is nominated as Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) by King Henry VIII of England following the death of George Cromer; he is consecrated in December.source
1553February 2 – Hugh Goodacre is consecrated as Archbishop of Armagh (Church of Ireland) and John Bale as Bishop of Ossory.source

17th century

16193 October – Lancelot Bulkeley is consecrated Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland), an office he will hold until 1650.source
1669January 11 – Peter Talbot is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland (consecrated at Antwerp 29 April (9 May New Style)).source

18th century

176320 November: Hólar Cathedral was consecrated, following completion earlier in the year,source

19th century

1838Hólavallagarður cemetery is consecrated.source
18852 August – William Walsh is consecrated as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, an office he will hold until his death in 1921.source