{"slug": "arthur-conan-doyle", "label": "Arthur Conan Doyle", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Conan_Doyle", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35610", "qid": "Q35610", "description": "British writer and physician (1859–1930)", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [1859, 1930], "span_label": ["1859 CE", "1930 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "sherlock-holmes", "label": "Sherlock Holmes", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "december", "label": "December", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "january", "label": "January", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1859, "year_label": "1859 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "May 22", "text": "May 22 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Scottish writer (d. 1930)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371179353#April–June", "title": "1859", "revid": 1371179353, "section": "Births › April–June"}}, {"year": 1884, "year_label": "1884 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "January", "text": "January – Arthur Conan Doyle's anonymous story \"J. Habakuk Jephson's Statement\" appears in the Cornhill Magazine (London). Based on the disappearance of the crew of the Mary Celeste in 1872, many of the fictional elements introduced by Doyle come to replace the real events in the popular imagination.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364372487#January", "title": "1884", "revid": 1364372487, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1887, "year_label": "1887 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November", "text": "Arthur Conan Doyle's detective character Sherlock Holmes makes his first appearance, in the novel A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton's Christmas Annual.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363052310#November", "title": "1887", "revid": 1363052310, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1891, "year_label": "1891 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "June 25", "text": "June 25 – Arthur Conan Doyle's detective Sherlock Holmes appears in The Strand Magazine (London) for the first time, in the issue dated July.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369994059#June", "title": "1891", "revid": 1369994059, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1892, "year_label": "1892 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 31", "text": "October 31 – The first collection of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories from The Strand Magazine, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, is published in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372569087#October", "title": "1892", "revid": 1372569087, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 26", "text": "November 26 – Arthur Conan Doyle's story \"The Adventure of the Final Problem\", published in the December dated issue of The Strand Magazine and serialized in Sunday newspapers worldwide, surprises the reading public by revealing that his popular character Sherlock Holmes had apparently died at the Reichenbach Falls on May 4, 1891.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369946190#November", "title": "1893", "revid": 1369946190, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1930, "year_label": "1930 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 7", "text": "July 7 – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, British fiction writer (Sherlock Holmes) (b. 1859)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373315156#July–_August", "title": "1930", "revid": 1373315156, "section": "Deaths › July– August"}}]}