{"slug": "cephalonia", "label": "Cephalonia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalonia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q178488", "qid": "Q178488", "description": "Greek island in the Ionian Sea", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [880, 1953], "span_label": ["880 CE", "1953 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ionian-islands", "label": "Ionian Islands", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "corfu", "label": "Corfu", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greece", "label": "Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aghlabids", "label": "Aghlabids", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "basil-i", "label": "Basil I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "illyria", "label": "Illyria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "albania", "label": "Albania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "republic-of-ragusa", "label": "Republic of Ragusa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "robert-guiscard", "label": "Robert Guiscard", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charles-count-of-valois", "label": "Charles, Count of Valois", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 880, "year_label": "880 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Cephalonia: A Byzantine fleet, under Admiral Nasar, is sent by Emperor Basil I to the Ionian Islands. Nasar defeats the Aghlabids in a night battle near Cephalonia (modern Greece).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372561483#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "880", "revid": 1372561483, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1084, "year_label": "1084 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Robert Guiscard returns with 150 warships in Illyria (modern Albania), and occupies Corfu and Kefalonia with the support of Ragusa and the Dalmatian city-states.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267072083#Europe", "title": "1084", "revid": 1267072083, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1085, "year_label": "1085 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Robert Guiscard heads for the Ionian Islands despite an epidemic among troops on Corfu. His son, Roger Borsa, lands on Cephalonia but Guiscard falls sick as his ship approaches the northernmost headland and is carried ashore, where he dies of fever (on July 17).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362159073#Europe", "title": "1085", "revid": 1362159073, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1310, "year_label": "1310 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Count Charles of Valois founds the Diocese of Corfu, Zakynthos and Cephalonia with its seat in Corfu. It is, comprising the Ionian Islands of Corfu, Zakynthos and Cephalonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332018292#Europe", "title": "1310", "revid": 1332018292, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1500, "year_label": "1500 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 24", "text": "December 24 – The Siege of the Castle of St. George ends, and the island of Cephalonia is captured by a joint Venetian–Spanish fleet.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371377541#October–December", "title": "1500", "revid": 1371377541, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1941, "year_label": "1941 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 6", "text": "December 6 – British submarine HMS Perseus is mined off Cephalonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372706275#December", "title": "1941", "revid": 1372706275, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1953, "year_label": "1953 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "August 12", "text": "August 12 – The 1953 Ionian earthquake of magnitude 7.2 totally devastates Cephalonia and most of the other Ionian Islands, in Greece's worst natural disaster in centuries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310369#August", "title": "1953", "revid": 1371310369, "section": "Events › August"}}]}