Saints Cyril and Methodius
11 dated entries naming Saints Cyril and Methodius, drawn from 11 separate years between 815 CE and 886 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.
9th century
- 815Methodius, Byzantine missionary and bishop (d. 885)source
- 826Cyril, Byzantine missionary and bishop (d. 885)source
- 827Cyril, Byzantine missionary and bishop (d. 869)source
- 855The Slavic alphabet is created by Saints Cyril and Methodius.source
- 860Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius arrive in Khazaria.source
- 862Constantine the Philosopher (alias Saint Cyril) invents the 42-letter Slavonic alphabet (Cyrillic script) as a tool for converting the Moravians to Christianity (approximate date).source
- 863The Byzantine missionaries Cyril and Methodius arrive with a few disciples in Moravia, by request of Prince Rastislav.source
- 869February 14 – Cyril, Byzantine missionary and bishopsource
- 880Pope 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.source
- 885April 6 – Methodius, Byzantine missionary and bishop (b. 815)source
- 886The Glagolitic alphabet, devised by Cyril and Methodius, missionaries from Constantinople, is adopted in the Bulgarian Empire.source
Named in the same entries
- Great Moravia (2)
- Byzantine Empire (1)
- Khazars (1)
- First Bulgarian Empire (1)
- Latin (1)
- Pope John VIII (1)