Dalriada or Dál Riata (as it was called in Ireland) was the kingdom of the Scotti, who spread from eastern Ulster to Argyll and eventually gave their name to Scotland. Aidan mac Gabhráin, who reigned from 574 to 608 as king of Dál Riata, built a strong navy and waged aggressive war, raiding as far as the Isle of Man and the Orkney Islands. He was less successful in land battles and lost the Battle of Degsastan in 603 to the Angles. The kingdom's power in Ulster was greatly diminished by a decisive defeat by the O'Neill ...
Alba is the ancient and modern Gaelic name (IPA: /ˈaɫapə/) for the country of Scotland (also Alba in Irish, and in Old Gaelic Albu).
The word ultimately comes from a Celtic word referring to the whole island of Great Britain, hence the early classical Albion. It was used by the Gaels to refer to the island as a whole until roughly the ninth or tenth centuries, when it came to be the name given to the kingdoms of the Picts and the Scots (Pictavia and Dalriada ...
A census is the process of obtaining information about every member of a population (not necessarily a human population). It can be contrasted with sampling in which information is only obtained from a subset of a population. As such it is a method used for accumulating statistical data, and it is also vital to democracy (voting).
Census - Ancient and medieval censuses.
Rome conducted censuses to determine taxes (see Censor).
The Bible relates stories of several censuses. The Book of Numbers d ...
Arthurian legend or the Matter of Britain is a name given collectively to the legends that concern the Celtic and legendary history of the British Isles, especially those centering around King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. The twelfth century French poet Jean Bodel created the name in a chanson de geste he wrote, the Chanson de Saisnes, in which appear the lines:
Ne sont que iii matières à nul homme atandant,
De France et de Bretaigne, et de Rome la grant.
(There are but 3 literary cycles that no one should be without: the ...
Celtic art is art associated with various peoples known as Celts speaking the Celtic languages in Europe from pre-history through to the medieval period and beyond, as well as art of ancient peoples whose language is unknown but where cultural and stylistic similarities lead archaeologists to consider it probable that they were predecessors of those known to speak Celtic languages, and Celtic revival art from the 18th century to the modern era which began as a conscious effort by Modern Celt ...
Brython and Brythonic are terms which refer to indigenous, pre-Roman, Celtic inhabitants of the most of the island of Great Britain, and their culture and language, the Brythonic languages. This ethnic group is also referred to as the British tribes, the ancient Britons, ethnic Britons, or simply Britons. These terms specifically refer to the culture of speakers of the P Celtic branch of the Celtic languages as against speakers of Q Celtic, who are usually referred to as Gaels or Goidelic Celts.
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The British Isles is a term traditionally given to the group of islands off the northwest coast of Europe including Great Britain (containing England, Scotland, and Wales), Ireland, and several thousand smaller adjacent islands. The name was extensively used historically, derived from when the island of Great Britain was called Britannias, and Ireland and the other islands near Great Britain were called Britanniae (the Latin genitive case meaning of Britannias.) In 1922 most of the island of Ireland ceased to be i ...
The term Celts (pronounced "kelts" or "selts")[1] refers to any of a number of ancient peoples in Europe using the Celtic languages, which form a branch of Indo-European languages, as well as others whose language is unknown but where associated cultural traits such as Celtic art are found in archaeological evidence. Historical theories were developed that these factors were indicat ...
Events
First year in which Anno Domini calendar is actually used for numbering (in Dionysius Exiguus's treatise)
January 11 - Nika riots in Constantinople; the cathedral is destroyed.
January 18 - Nika riots in Constantinople are put down by Belisarius and Mundus; maybe as many as 30 000 people are killed in the Hippodrome.
Byzantine emperor Justinian I orders the building of a new cathedral - begin of the construction of the Hagia Sophia.
Justinian I signs a peace treaty with the Sassa ...
1. In common with the rest of the UK.
2. No official anthem. God Save the Queen is traditionally the UK national anthem. See national symbols below.
Scotland (Alba in Gaelic) is a nation in northwest Europe and a constituent country of the United Kingdom. The country occupies the northern third of the island of Great Britain and shares a land border to the south with England and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the ...
Events
Shashanka is the first recorded independent king of Bengal (approximate date).
Cearl becomes king of Mercia.
The diocese of Aquileia becomes a patriarchate.
Births
Fatima Zahra, daughter of Muhammad
Deaths
Aidan, king of Dalriada
February 22 - Pope Sabinianus
Pybba of Mercia (possible date)
Category: 606
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Events
Emperor Justin II retires, choosing Tiberius II Constantine as his heir.
Aidan mac Gabhráin becomes king of Dalriada.
For the next ten years, the Lombards are without a king.
Births
Uthman ibn Affan, caliph (approximate date)
Prince Shotoku, regent of Japan
Deaths
July 7 - Pope John III
Cleph, king of the Lombards (killed by one of his serv ...
Events
September 15 - Boniface IV becomes pope.
Eochaid succeeds Aidan mac Gabhráin as king of Dalriada.
First recorded observation of Halloween in the Catholic church.
Khosrau II of Persia attacks Chalcedon.
Possible date of the writing of Beowulf.
Prince Shotoku of Japan appoints Ono no Imoko as official envoy to Sui for a second time and sends him to pay tribute to the Sui court.
Births
Deaths
629 - Events.
Jerusalem reconquered by Byzantine Empire from the Persian Empire (September).
Emperor Jomei ascends to the throne of Japan
Dagobert I becomes king of all of the Frankish territory
Maya civilization military outpost of Dos Pilas is founded
Battle of Fid Eoin: The king of Dalriada, Connad Cerr, is defeated.
629 - Deaths.
Clotaire II, king of the Franks
Connad Cerr, king of Dalriada
The term Picts refers to the tribes that Mediterranean classical-era writers placed in Caledonia, which itself comprises the part of present-day Scotland north of the Forth and Clyde.
Pict first appears in a panegyric written by Eumenius in AD 297. Although Picti is usually taken to mean painted or tattooed in Latin, the term may have a Celtic origin. The Goidelic Celts called the Picts cruithne (e.g. Old Irish cru(i)then-túath, based on the Old Irish root cruth) and the Brython ...
Events
May 7 - In Constantinople, the dome of the Hagia Sophia collapses. Justinian I immediately orders the dome rebuilt.
Clotaire I reunites the Frankish kingdom.
Guanghua Temple is built.
Conall I becomes king of Dalriada.
Births
Deaths
Childebert I, king of the Franks
Gabhran, king of Dalriada.
Category: 558
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Events
Arabs take Jerusalem
Arabs take Aleppo
Battle of al-Qādisiyyah: Arabs defeat Persian army, eventually take Persian capital of Ctesiphon
Battle of Mag Rath: Dalriada influence in Ulster greatly reduced
Births
Deaths
Category: 637
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Events
October 17 - King Cyrus of Persia marches into the city of Babylon, releasing the Jews from almost 70 years of exile and making the first Human Rights Declaration.
End of the Kofun era and beginning of the Asuka period, the second part of the Yamato period in Japan.
Buddhism introduced formally into Japan (by some accounts; see also 552).
End of the Ostrogothic siege of Rome.
Gabhran becomes king of Dalriada.
Births
Emperor Bidatsu, emperor of Japan
Gregory of Tours, bishop and historian
Zhiyi, d ...
List of extinct states - States and territories grouped by geographical location.
In and around what is now Bulgaria
Third Bulgarian Kingdom (1878-1944)
Principality of Bulgaria (1878-1908)
Commonwealth of England - (non-existant)
In and around what is now Scandinavia
Grand Duchy of Finland
Kalmar Union - (dissolved)
Denmark-Norway - (dissolved)
Sweden-Norway - (dissolved)
In and around what is n ...
The Mull has been an important landbridge throughout history. It is thought that it was used by early man in their travels from continental Europe to Ireland. In more recent times it was used again by the Scotti when they travelled from Ireland to establish the kingdom of Dalriada in modern day Argyll.
The area has been the site of many air crashes throughout its history. One of the most notorious was the Chinook crash on Mull of Kintyre, June 2, 1994. The crash killed 4 crew members and 25 passengers who were senior members of Britis ...
