{"slug": "buffalo-new-york", "label": "Buffalo, New York", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo%2C_New_York", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40435", "qid": "Q40435", "description": "city and county seat of Erie County, New York, United States", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [1825, 1928], "span_label": ["1825 CE", "1928 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 5}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "capital-punishment", "label": "Capital punishment", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1825, "year_label": "1825 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "October 26", "text": "October 26 – The Erie Canal opens, providing passage from Albany, New York to Buffalo and Lake Erie.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341744335#October–December", "title": "1825", "revid": 1341744335, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1832, "year_label": "1832 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "The City of Buffalo in New York is incorporated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370617764#Date_unknown", "title": "1832", "revid": 1370617764, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1882, "year_label": "1882 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "October 16", "text": "October 16 – The New York, Chicago and St. Louis Railroad (\"Nickel Plate Road\") runs its first trains over the entire system between Buffalo, New York, and Chicago. Nine days later the Seney Syndicate sells the road to William Henry Vanderbilt, for US$7.2 million.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360586433#October", "title": "1882", "revid": 1360586433, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 3", "text": "July 3 – Swiss-born American boxer Frank Erne wins the world lightweight championship by defeating champion George \"Kid\" Lavigne in Buffalo, New York.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371393177#July", "title": "1899", "revid": 1371393177, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1901, "year_label": "1901 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 29", "text": "October 29 – Leon Czolgosz is executed in the electric chair for the assassination of William McKinley in Buffalo, New York on September 6.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373318021#October", "title": "1901", "revid": 1373318021, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1901, "year_label": "1901 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 6", "text": "September 6 – Assassination of William McKinley: American anarchist Leon Czolgosz shoots U.S. President William McKinley at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley dies 8 days later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373318021#September", "title": "1901", "revid": 1373318021, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1902, "year_label": "1902 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "October 17", "text": "October 17 – First Cadillac completed, sold and sent to Buffalo, New York", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373318639#October", "title": "1902", "revid": 1373318639, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1927, "year_label": "1927 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "August 7", "text": "August 7 – The Peace Bridge opens between Fort Erie, Ontario, and Buffalo, New York.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370012373#August", "title": "1927", "revid": 1370012373, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1928, "year_label": "1928 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "September 11", "text": "September 11 – The first broadcast of a play by television, melodrama The Queen's Messenger, on General Electric's W2XAD from Schenectady, New York, utilising techniques created by Ernst Alexanderson. WMAK (Kenmore) begins broadcasting in Buffalo, New York.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372527586#September", "title": "1928", "revid": 1372527586, "section": "Events › September"}}]}