{"slug": "africa", "label": "Africa", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Africa", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15", "qid": "Q15", "description": "continent", "entries": 24, "years": 22, "span": [-2806, 1969], "span_label": ["2807 BCE", "1969 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 7}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 5}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sicily", "label": "Sicily", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "afonso-v-of-portugal", "label": "Afonso V of Portugal", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "mark-the-evangelist", "label": "Mark the Evangelist", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "hamilcar-barca", "label": "Hamilcar Barca", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ferdinand-ii-of-aragon", "label": "Ferdinand II of Aragon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "isabella-i-of-castile", "label": "Isabella I of Castile", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canary-islands", "label": "Canary Islands", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "india", "label": "India", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "islam", "label": "Islam", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mozambique", "label": "Mozambique", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -2806, "year_label": "2807 BCE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "2807 BC: Suggested date for an asteroid or comet impact occurring between Africa and Antarctica, around the time of a lunar eclipse on May 10, based on an analysis of flood stories. Possibly causing the Burckle crater and Fenambosy Chevron.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371895849#Events", "title": "29th century BC", "revid": 1371895849, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -269, "year_label": "270 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Hamilcar Barca, founder of Barcid Spain and leading Carthaginian general who will fight against Rome in Sicily and Italy, against the Libyans and the mercenary revolt in Africa, and against the Iberians and Celti-Iberians in Spain (d. 228 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1317756359#Births", "title": "270 BC", "revid": 1317756359, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -148, "year_label": "149 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Third Punic War begins. The Romans land an army in Africa to begin the Battle of Carthage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1000122190#Roman_Republic", "title": "149 BC", "revid": 1000122190, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -87, "year_label": "88 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August", "text": "August: The consul Lucius Cornelius Sulla becomes the first Roman commander to march on Rome with his army and to capture the city by force. This extraordinary act is prompted by his desire to maintain his proconsular command for the First Mithridatic War in Asia Minor. Sulla then murdered his enemy P. Sulpicius Rufus and forced Gaius Marius to flee to Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325703284#Roman_Republic", "title": "88 BC", "revid": 1325703284, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -81, "year_label": "82 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Pompey is ordered by Sulla to stamp out Marian rebels in Sicily and Africa, after his campaigns in he gets the insulting nickname of adulescentulus carnifex, the \"teenage butcher\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1262234047#Roman_Republic", "title": "82 BC", "revid": 1262234047, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 24, "year_label": "24 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The revolt of Tacfarinas revolt in Africa is repressed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369984933#Roman_Empire", "title": "20s", "revid": 1369984933, "section": "Events › 24 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 43, "year_label": "43 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "In Coptic Orthodox Christianity, Mark the Evangelist becomes the first Pope of Alexandria, thus establishing the Christian Church in Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_43", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 43"}}, {"year": 65, "year_label": "65 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The first Christian community in Africa is founded by Mark, a disciple of Peter.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363561417#Religion", "title": "AD 65", "revid": 1363561417, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 189, "year_label": "189 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Pope Victor I succeeds Pope Eleuterus as the fourteenth pope, the first from Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371309450#Religion", "title": "AD 189", "revid": 1371309450, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 373, "year_label": "373 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Quintus Aurelius Symmachus becomes proconsul of Africa, and is made a member of the pontifical college.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364742164#Roman_Empire", "title": "373", "revid": 1364742164, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 394, "year_label": "394 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Council of Bagaï in Africa brings 310 Donatist bishops together.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369162073#Religion", "title": "394", "revid": 1369162073, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 429, "year_label": "429 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Bonifacius, weakened by the civil war against empress Galla Placidia, sues for peace and is elevated to the rank of supreme commander (magister militum) of Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333669155#Roman_Empire", "title": "429", "revid": 1333669155, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 525, "year_label": "525 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Kaleb, king of Aksum, collects a fleet and crosses from Africa to conquer Yemen. He establishes better trade ports on the Red Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340792024#Africa", "title": "525", "revid": 1340792024, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 590, "year_label": "590 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Maurice establishes the Exarchate of Carthage in Africa. He combines the civil authority of a praetorian prefect and the military authority, based at Carthage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753220#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "590", "revid": 1364753220, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 900, "year_label": "900 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The east coast of Africa is impacted by trade and Arab, Persian and Indian traders mix with the indigenous Bantu. Many of the coastal Bantu adopt Islam, reaching as far south as Sofala (Mozambique).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364042634#Commerce", "title": "900", "revid": 1364042634, "section": "Events › By topic › Commerce"}}, {"year": 920, "year_label": "920 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Golden Age of the Ghana Empire begins in Africa (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349205100#Africa", "title": "920", "revid": 1349205100, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1472, "year_label": "1472 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "An extensive slave trade begins in modern Cameroon as the Portuguese sail up the Wouri River and Fernão do Po claims the central-African islands Bioko and Annobón for Portugal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365251690#Undated", "title": "1472", "revid": 1365251690, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1480, "year_label": "1480 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – King Afonso V of Portugal orders his navy to \"capture anyone trading illegally in Africa, and to throw the goods and ship's crew into the sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370179650#April–June", "title": "1480", "revid": 1370179650, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1480, "year_label": "1480 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6 – The Treaty of Toledo is signed as Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain recognize the African conquests of Afonso V of Portugal, and he cedes the Canary Islands to Spain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370179650#January–March", "title": "1480", "revid": 1370179650, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1620, "year_label": "1620 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 3", "text": "July 3 – Captain Andrew Shilling, on behalf of the English Honourable East India Company, lays claim to Table Bay in Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363705489#July–September", "title": "1620", "revid": 1363705489, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "The 1899–1923 cholera pandemic begins, spreading to Europe, Asia and Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371393177#Date_unknown", "title": "1899", "revid": 1371393177, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1907, "year_label": "1907 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 24", "text": "April 24 – Al Ahly SC is founded in Cairo by Omar Lotfi, as a gathering place for Egyptian students' unions in the struggle against colonization; it is the first association football club officially founded in Egypt or Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373349351#April", "title": "1907", "revid": 1373349351, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Common African, Malagasy and Mauritian Organization (OCAMM) (Organisation Commune Africaine Malgache et Mauricienne) is established.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#Date_unknown", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 31", "text": "July 31 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Entebbe, Uganda for the first visit by a reigning Pope to Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#July", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Events › July"}}]}