{"slug": "acapulco", "label": "Acapulco", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acapulco", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q81398", "qid": "Q81398", "description": "municipal seat of Acapulco, State of Guerrero, Mexico", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [1528, 2023], "span_label": ["1528 CE", "2023 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "mexico", "label": "Mexico", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "spanish-empire", "label": "Spanish Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "new-spain", "label": "New Spain", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ming-dynasty", "label": "Ming dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "philippines", "label": "Philippines", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "manila", "label": "Manila", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "south-africa", "label": "South Africa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "east-india-company", "label": "East India Company", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "holy-see", "label": "Holy See", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tokugawa-ieyasu", "label": "Tokugawa Ieyasu", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mexico-city", "label": "Mexico City", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1528, "year_label": "1528 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spain takes direct control of Acapulco.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369577446#Date_unknown", "title": "1528", "revid": 1369577446, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1550, "year_label": "1550 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 12", "text": "March 12 – Acapulco is founded by 30 families sent from Mexico City.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369571608#January–March", "title": "1550", "revid": 1369571608, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1597, "year_label": "1597 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "12 million pesos of silver cross the Pacific. Although it is unknown just how much silver flowed from the Spanish base of Manila in the Philippines to the Ming Dynasty of China, it is known that the main port for the Mexican silver trade—Acapulco—shipped out 150,000 to 345,000 kg (4 to 9 million taels) of silver annually from this year to 1602.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362801855#Date_unknown", "title": "1597", "revid": 1362801855, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1613, "year_label": "1613 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 – Keichō embassy: Hasekura Tsunenaga departs Japan in the Date Maru with a Japanese diplomatic mission to the Holy See, scheduled to first travel to Acapulco in New Spain, with a goal of concluding an agreement between Tokugawa Ieyasu and the East India Company, permitting English merchants to live and trade in Japan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366649732#October–December", "title": "1613", "revid": 1366649732, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1614, "year_label": "1614 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 22", "text": "January 22 – Led by Hasekura Tsunenaga, Japan's trade expedition to New Spain (modern-day Mexico) arrives on the Mexican coast with 22 samurai, 120 Japanese merchants, sailors and servants, and 40 Spaniards and Portuguese who serve as interpreters. Having reached the Americas after a voyage that began on October 28, the expedition travels to Acapulco and arrives on January 25.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372816433#January–March", "title": "1614", "revid": 1372816433, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Fort San Diego, in Acapulco Bay, Mexico, is completed by the Spanish as a defence against their erstwhile vassals, the Dutch.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#Date_unknown", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 18", "text": "May 18 – In Mexico, schoolteacher Lucio Cabañas begins guerrilla warfare in Atoyac de Alvarez, west of Acapulco, in the state of Guerrero.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370160888#May", "title": "1967", "revid": 1370160888, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1978, "year_label": "1978 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 24", "text": "July 24 – In Acapulco, Mexico, Margaret Gardiner of South Africa is crowned Miss Universe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022681#July", "title": "1978", "revid": 1370022681, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2023, "year_label": "2023 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "October 25", "text": "October 25 – Hurricane Otis, an eastern Pacific tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Mexico near Acapulco, leaving at least 80 dead. It is the most powerful Eastern Pacific hurricane to make landfall in Mexico, with the highest winds reaching 165 mph, surpassing Hurricane Patricia's landfall in 2015.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372811827#October", "title": "2023", "revid": 1372811827, "section": "Events › October"}}]}