{"slug": "alfred-dreyfus", "label": "Alfred Dreyfus", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Dreyfus", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q171826", "qid": "Q171826", "description": "French artillery officer (1859–1935)", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [1859, 1906], "span_label": ["1859 CE", "1906 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 4}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "dreyfus-affair", "label": "Dreyfus affair", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "rennes", "label": "Rennes", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1859, "year_label": "1859 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "October 9", "text": "October 9 – Alfred Dreyfus, French military officer, subject of the Dreyfus affair (d. 1935)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371179353#October–December", "title": "1859", "revid": 1371179353, "section": "Births › October–December"}}, {"year": 1894, "year_label": "1894 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "October 15", "text": "October 15 – Dreyfus affair: French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus is arrested for spying.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369810485#October", "title": "1894", "revid": 1369810485, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1894, "year_label": "1894 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "December 22", "text": "December 22 – Dreyfus affair: French Army officer Alfred Dreyfus is convicted of treason. It will be 12 years before his innocence is officially recognised.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369810485#December", "title": "1894", "revid": 1369810485, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1895, "year_label": "1895 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "January 5", "text": "January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (off French Guiana) on what is much later admitted to be a false charge of treason.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364324653#January", "title": "1895", "revid": 1364324653, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1898, "year_label": "1898 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 13", "text": "January 13 – Novelist Émile Zola's open letter to the President of the French Republic on the Dreyfus affair, J'Accuse…!, is published on the front page of the Paris daily newspaper L'Aurore, accusing the government of wrongfully imprisoning Alfred Dreyfus and of antisemitism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367547011#January", "title": "1898", "revid": 1367547011, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 19", "text": "September 19 – Dreyfus affair: Alfred Dreyfus is pardoned in France by the Ministry of War. He is released from prison at Rennes the following day but not fully exonerated until 1906.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371393177#September", "title": "1899", "revid": 1371393177, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1906, "year_label": "1906 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 12", "text": "July 12 – Alfred Dreyfus is exonerated. He is reinstalled in the French Army on July 21, thus ending the Dreyfus affair.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373343237#July–August", "title": "1906", "revid": 1373343237, "section": "Events › July–August"}}]}