{"slug": "bermuda", "label": "Bermuda", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bermuda", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23635", "qid": "Q23635", "description": "British overseas territory in the North Atlantic Ocean", "entries": 12, "years": 12, "span": [1503, 2022], "span_label": ["1503 CE", "2022 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "spanish-empire", "label": "Spanish Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charles-ii-of-england", "label": "Charles II of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dominican-republic", "label": "Dominican Republic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "puerto-rico", "label": "Puerto Rico", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "guadeloupe", "label": "Guadeloupe", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "barbados", "label": "Barbados", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "colony-of-virginia", "label": "Colony of Virginia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jamestown-virginia", "label": "Jamestown, Virginia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1503, "year_label": "1503 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez discovered the island Bermuda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366510845#Date_unknown", "title": "1503", "revid": 1366510845, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1505, "year_label": "1505 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Bermuda is discovered by Spanish explorer Juan de Bermúdez.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360582113#Date_unknown", "title": "1505", "revid": 1360582113, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1609, "year_label": "1609 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – The Sea Venture, flagship of the nine-ship fleet of the London Company is deliberately wrecked at Bermuda during a storm, as Admiral George Somers drives the ship into the reefs of Discovery Bay in order to prevent the ship from sinking. A group of 153 survivors stay, making the first English settlement of the island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365588617#July–September", "title": "1609", "revid": 1365588617, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1610, "year_label": "1610 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 23", "text": "May 23 – Jamestown, Virginia: Acting as temporary Governor, Thomas Gates, along with John Rolfe, Captain Ralph Hamor, Sir George Somers, and other survivors from the Sea Venture (wrecked at Bermuda) arrive at Jamestown; they find that 60 have survived the \"starving time\" (winter), the fort palisades and gates have been torn down, and empty houses have been used for firewood, in fear of attacks by natives outside the fort area.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361322431#April–June", "title": "1610", "revid": 1361322431, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1615, "year_label": "1615 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "The Somers Isles Company is founded to administer Bermuda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365922608#Date_unknown", "title": "1615", "revid": 1365922608, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The first African slaves are brought to Bermuda, an English colony, by Captain George Bargrave to dive for pearls, because of their reputed skill in this activity. Harvesting pearls off the coast proves unsuccessful, and the slaves are put to work planting and harvesting the initial large crops of tobacco and sugarcane. Some English refuse to purchase Brazilian sugar because it is produced by slave labour.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#Date_unknown", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1649, "year_label": "1649 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 5", "text": "July 5 – After news reaches the Western Hemisphere that King Charles I has been deposed and executed, the English colonial government of the Somers Isles, now called Bermuda, proclaims its recognition of Charles II as the rightful ruler of the islands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367892628#July–September", "title": "1649", "revid": 1367892628, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1650, "year_label": "1650 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 30", "text": "October 30 – The Commonwealth of England government passes a law prohibiting trade between English merchants and English colonies that had sided with Charles II over Oliver Cromwell. Specifically labeled as rebel colonies for purposes of the ban are the North American colonies of Virginia and the Somers Isles (alias Bermuda), as well as the Caribbean islands of Barbados and Antigua.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373388330#October–December", "title": "1650", "revid": 1373388330, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1712, "year_label": "1712 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 – A severe hurricane buffets Bermuda for eight hours, destroying most of the churches.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367964331#July–September", "title": "1712", "revid": 1367964331, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1730, "year_label": "1730 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "June 1", "text": "June 1 – Enslaved woman Sally Basset is put on trial for murder in Bermuda; she will eventually be convicted and burned at the stake.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560881#April–June", "title": "1730", "revid": 1369560881, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1973, "year_label": "1973 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 10", "text": "March 10 – Sir Richard Sharples, Governor of Bermuda, is assassinated outside Government House, along with his aide-de-camp.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373239256#March", "title": "1973", "revid": 1373239256, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 14", "text": "September 14–September 25 – The Atlantic hurricane Fiona hits Guadeloupe, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, the Lucayan Archipelago, Bermuda, and Eastern Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#September", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › September"}}]}