{"slug": "charles-dickens", "label": "Charles Dickens", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Dickens", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5686", "qid": "Q5686", "description": "English novelist and social critic (1812–1870)", "entries": 13, "years": 12, "span": [1836, 1978], "span_label": ["1836 CE", "1978 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 8}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "february", "label": "February", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-york-city", "label": "New York City", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "william-shakespeare", "label": "William Shakespeare", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "aristotle", "label": "Aristotle", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kent", "label": "Kent", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1836, "year_label": "1836 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 31", "text": "March 31 (dated April) – The first monthly part of Charles Dickens's The Pickwick Papers (\"The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club..., edited by Boz\") is published in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368342504#January–March", "title": "1836", "revid": 1368342504, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1837, "year_label": "1837 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February", "text": "February – Charles Dickens's Oliver Twist begins publication in serial form in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360323585#January–March", "title": "1837", "revid": 1360323585, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1838, "year_label": "1838 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 31", "text": "March 31 – The first installment of Nicholas Nickleby, the new novel by Charles Dickens, is released as the opener of a 20-part serialization in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360381946#January–March", "title": "1838", "revid": 1360381946, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1843, "year_label": "1843 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Serial publication of Charles Dickens's novel Martin Chuzzlewit begins in London; in the July chapters, he lands his hero in the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366016136#January–March", "title": "1843", "revid": 1366016136, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1843, "year_label": "1843 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "December 19", "text": "December 19 – Charles Dickens's novella A Christmas Carol is first published in London, England. Released on December 19, it sells out by Christmas Eve.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366016136#October–December", "title": "1843", "revid": 1366016136, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1854, "year_label": "1854 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "April 1", "text": "April 1 – Hard Times begins serialisation in Charles Dickens' magazine, Household Words.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362496011#April–June", "title": "1854", "revid": 1362496011, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1859, "year_label": "1859 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "April 30", "text": "April 30 – A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens is published in England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371179353#April–June", "title": "1859", "revid": 1371179353, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1860, "year_label": "1860 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "December 1", "text": "December 1 – Charles Dickens publishes the first installment of Great Expectations in his magazine All the Year Round.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371066131#December", "title": "1860", "revid": 1371066131, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1863, "year_label": "1863 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 12", "text": "June 12 – The Arts Club is founded by Charles Dickens, Frederic Leighton and others in Hanover Square, London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363782030#June", "title": "1863", "revid": 1363782030, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1867, "year_label": "1867 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "December 2", "text": "December 2 – In a New York City theater, English author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365231456#December", "title": "1867", "revid": 1365231456, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1870, "year_label": "1870 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 9", "text": "June 9 – English novelist Charles Dickens dies at Gads Hill Place in Kent, leaving his last book, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, unfinished.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362496807#June", "title": "1870", "revid": 1362496807, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 22", "text": "June 22 – David Lean's Oliver Twist, based on Charles Dickens's famous novel, premieres in the UK. It is banned for 3 years in the U.S., because of alleged antisemitism in depicting master criminal Fagin, played by Alec Guinness.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#June", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1978, "year_label": "1978 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 11", "text": "February 11 – The People's Republic of China lifts a ban on works by Aristotle, William Shakespeare and Charles Dickens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022681#February", "title": "1978", "revid": 1370022681, "section": "Events › February"}}]}