{"slug": "arizona", "label": "Arizona", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q816", "qid": "Q816", "description": "state of the United States of America", "entries": 15, "years": 15, "span": [1064, 1967], "span_label": ["1064 CE", "1967 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "new-mexico", "label": "New Mexico", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-states", "label": "United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "california", "label": "California", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "washington-state", "label": "Washington (state)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "british-columbia", "label": "British Columbia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "oregon", "label": "Oregon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "republican-party-united-states", "label": "Republican Party (United States)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-states-army", "label": "United States Army", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ulysses-s-grant", "label": "Ulysses S. Grant", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "american-indian-wars", "label": "American Indian Wars", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mexican-revolution", "label": "Mexican Revolution", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1064, "year_label": "1064 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "Sunset Crater Volcano (modern-day Arizona) first erupts (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369558075#Volcanology", "title": "1064", "revid": 1369558075, "section": "Events › By topic › Volcanology"}}, {"year": 1100, "year_label": "1100 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Oraibi, a Hopi village in Navajo County, becomes the oldest populated settlement in modern-day Arizona (modern-day United States).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365265768#Americas", "title": "1100", "revid": 1365265768, "section": "Events › By place › Americas"}}, {"year": 1736, "year_label": "1736 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 13", "text": "November 13 – Word of the discovery of silver, south of what is now the U.S.-Mexican border, reaches Sonora Governor Juan Bautista Anza and soon leads to prospectors coming to Nogales to find more silver. Late in October, a Yaqui Indian prospector, Antonio Siraumea, had discovered large slabs of silver (\"Las planchas de plata\"), and at the Estancia Arizona, a ranch owned by Captain Bernardo de Urrea. The region, and later the U.S. territory, and state of Arizona are named for Urrea's ranch.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360559528#October–December", "title": "1736", "revid": 1360559528, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1856, "year_label": "1856 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 17", "text": "November 17 – American Old West: On the Sonoita River in modern-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan, in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371140008#October–December", "title": "1856", "revid": 1371140008, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1868, "year_label": "1868 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 1", "text": "June 1 – The Treaty of Bosque Redondo is signed, allowing the Navajo to return to their lands in Arizona and New Mexico.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363668193#June", "title": "1868", "revid": 1363668193, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1872, "year_label": "1872 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "December 14", "text": "December 14 – President Ulysses S. Grant establishes the San Carlos Apache Reservation, in southeastern Arizona.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371307490#December", "title": "1872", "revid": 1371307490, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1875, "year_label": "1875 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 25", "text": "February 25 – The majority of the Yavapai (Wipukyipai) and Tonto Apache (Dil Zhéé) tribes are forced by the United States Cavalry, under command of Brigadier General George Crook, to walk at gunpoint from Arizona's Verde Valley, to the San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation, 180 miles to the southeast. The two tribes are not allowed to return to the Verde Valley until 1900.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371928758#February", "title": "1875", "revid": 1371928758, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1886, "year_label": "1886 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 4", "text": "September 4 – American Indian Wars: After almost 30 years of fighting, Apache leader Geronimo surrenders, with his last band of warriors, to General Nelson Miles, at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372679431#September", "title": "1886", "revid": 1372679431, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1911, "year_label": "1911 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 13", "text": "April 13 – Mexican Revolution: Rebels take Agua Prieta on the Sonora–Arizona border; government troops take the town back April 17, when the rebel leader \"Red\" López gets drunk.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373497014#April", "title": "1911", "revid": 1373497014, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1912, "year_label": "1912 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 14", "text": "February 14 – Arizona is admitted as the 48th state of the United States, the last contiguous state to be admitted into the Union.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503730#February", "title": "1912", "revid": 1373503730, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1936, "year_label": "1936 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "August 29", "text": "August 29 – John McCain, American politician, U.S. Senator (R-Az.) (d. 2018)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373216494#August", "title": "1936", "revid": 1373216494, "section": "Births › August"}}, {"year": 1951, "year_label": "1951 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15–July 1 – In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, thousands of acres of forests are destroyed in fires.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368856437#June", "title": "1951", "revid": 1368856437, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1956, "year_label": "1956 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 30", "text": "June 30 – 1956 Grand Canyon mid-air collision: A TWA Lockheed Constellation and United Airlines Douglas DC-7 collide in mid-air over the Grand Canyon in Arizona, killing all 128 people aboard both aircraft, in the deadliest civil aviation disaster to date; the accident leads to sweeping changes in the regulation of cross-country flight and air traffic control over the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022627#June", "title": "1956", "revid": 1370022627, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1966, "year_label": "1966 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "November 17", "text": "November 17 – A spectacular Leonid meteor shower passes over Arizona, at the rate of 2,300 a minute for 20 minutes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370246126#November", "title": "1966", "revid": 1370246126, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Lonsdaleite (the rarest allotrope of carbon) is first discovered in the Barringer Crater, Arizona.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370160888#Date_unknown", "title": "1967", "revid": 1370160888, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}]}