{"slug": "chongqing", "label": "Chongqing", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chongqing", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11725", "qid": "Q11725", "description": "municipality of China", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [219, 2012], "span_label": ["219 CE", "2012 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "song-dynasty", "label": "Song dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mongol-empire", "label": "Mongol Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kublai-khan", "label": "Kublai Khan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mongol", "label": "Mongol", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mongke-khan", "label": "Möngke Khan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cao-cao", "label": "Cao Cao", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sichuan", "label": "Sichuan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "yellow-river", "label": "Yellow River", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sun-quan", "label": "Sun Quan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kuomintang", "label": "Kuomintang", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mao-zedong", "label": "Mao Zedong", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chiang-kai-shek", "label": "Chiang Kai-shek", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 219, "year_label": "219 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cao Cao controls the Yellow River basin and northern China. Sun Quan rules southern China. Liu Bei controls Yi Province (covering present-day Sichuan and Chongqing).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371188900#China", "title": "219", "revid": 1371188900, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 1259, "year_label": "1259 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 11", "text": "August 11 – While conducting a siege against the Song dynasty city known as Fishing Town in the province of Chongqing, China, the Mongol Great Khan, Möngke Khan, dies in the nearby hills. Persian, Chinese, and Mongol records have different accounts of how he died, including succumbing to an arrow wound received by a Chinese archer in the siege, dysentery, and even a cholera epidemic. His death sparks a succession crisis in the Mongol Empire, while his brothers Ariq Böke and Kublai soon convene their own kurultai to elect themselves as the next Khan of Khans, opening the path to a four–year-long Toluid Civil War from 1260 to 1264. In the end, Ariq Böke surrenders to Kublai.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362482647#Asia", "title": "1259", "revid": 1362482647, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1913, "year_label": "1913 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 4", "text": "August 4 – Republic of China: The city of Chongqing (Chungking) declares independence; Republican forces crush the rebellion in a couple of weeks.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373505613#August", "title": "1913", "revid": 1373505613, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1937, "year_label": "1937 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 13", "text": "December 13 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Nanjing ends with the Japanese occupying the city. In the Nanjing Massacre which follows, Japanese soldiers kill over 200,000 Chinese in 3 months. A few days previously, the Nationalist government of China had moved its capital to the southwestern city Chongqing.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371759714#December", "title": "1937", "revid": 1371759714, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1945, "year_label": "1945 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 19", "text": "August 19 – Chinese Civil War: Mao Zedong and Chiang Kai-shek meet in Chongqing to discuss an end to hostilities between the Communists and the Nationalists.12", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371513862#August", "title": "1945", "revid": 1371513862, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 2012, "year_label": "2012 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "March 15", "text": "March 15 – Communist party chief of Chongqing Bo Xilai, well known for his neo-Maoist leanings and policies, is removed from his post after a large scandal involving the murder of British businessman Neil Heywood and an incident involving the Chongqing police chief Wang Lijun.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373434549#March", "title": "2012", "revid": 1373434549, "section": "Events › March"}}]}