{"slug": "belize", "label": "Belize", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belize", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242", "qid": "Q242", "description": "sovereign state in Central America", "entries": 11, "years": 11, "span": [-1499, 1981], "span_label": ["1500 BCE", "1981 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "tikal", "label": "Tikal", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "maya-civilization", "label": "Maya civilization", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "mexico", "label": "Mexico", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "guatemala", "label": "Guatemala", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-great-britain", "label": "Kingdom of Great Britain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "yucatan-peninsula", "label": "Yucatán Peninsula", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "panama", "label": "Panama", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christopher-columbus", "label": "Christopher Columbus", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -1499, "year_label": "1500 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "c. 1500 BC: Early traces of Maya civilization developing in Belize.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320312812#Events_and_trends", "title": "1500s BC (decade)", "revid": 1320312812, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": 300, "year_label": "300 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Mayan civilization reaches its most prolific period, the classic period, in what is now Guatemala, Belize and parts of southern Mexico adjacent to the former two. During most of this period, Tikal dominates the Mayan world.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361492719#Mesoamerica", "title": "300", "revid": 1361492719, "section": "Events › By place › Mesoamerica"}}, {"year": 562, "year_label": "562 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "First Tikal-Calakmul War: The Maya state of Caracol (Belize) defeats King Wak Chan K'awiil (Double Bird) of Tikal in battle, ending his dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749268#Mesoamerica", "title": "562", "revid": 1364749268, "section": "Events › By place › Mesoamerica"}}, {"year": 1504, "year_label": "1504 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain from his fourth voyage, during which he and his younger son, Ferdinand, explored the coast of Central America from Belize to Panama.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365936803#October–December", "title": "1504", "revid": 1365936803, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1638, "year_label": "1638 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "Shipwrecked English buccaneer Peter Wallace, called Balis by the Spanish, settles near and perhaps gives his name to the Belize River, the first known European settlement in Belize.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352457236#Date_unknown", "title": "1638", "revid": 1352457236, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1754, "year_label": "1754 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 25", "text": "February 25 – Guatemalan Sergeant Major Melchor de Mencos y Varón departs the city of Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala with an infantry battalion to fight British pirates that are reportedly disembarking on the coasts of Petén (modern-day Belize), and sacking the nearby towns.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360193273#January–March", "title": "1754", "revid": 1360193273, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1786, "year_label": "1786 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 14", "text": "July 14 – Convention of London between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain: British settlements on the Mosquito Coast of Central America are to be evacuated; Spain expands the territory available to the British in Belize on the Yucatán Peninsula, for cutting mahogany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370552329#July–September", "title": "1786", "revid": 1370552329, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1798, "year_label": "1798 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 10", "text": "September 10 – Battle of St. George's Caye: Off the coast of British Honduras (modern-day Belize), a group of European settlers and Africans defeats a Spanish force sent from Mexico to drive them out.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366050846#July–December", "title": "1798", "revid": 1366050846, "section": "Events › July–December"}}, {"year": 1931, "year_label": "1931 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 10", "text": "September 10 – The worst hurricane in British Honduras history kills an estimated 1,500.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310518#September", "title": "1931", "revid": 1371310518, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1961, "year_label": "1961 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "October 31", "text": "October 31 – Hurricane Hattie devastates Belize City, Belize killing over 270. 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