{"slug": "christchurch", "label": "Christchurch", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christchurch", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79990", "qid": "Q79990", "description": "largest city in the South Island of New Zealand", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [1850, 2019], "span_label": ["1850 CE", "2019 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "new-zealand", "label": "New Zealand", "shared": 2}], "items": [{"year": 1850, "year_label": "1850 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 16", "text": "December 16 – Members of the Canterbury Association, the first settlers bound for Christchurch, arrive from England at the port of Lyttelton, New Zealand, aboard the Charlotte Jane and Randolph.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365770371#October–December", "title": "1850", "revid": 1365770371, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1856, "year_label": "1856 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 31", "text": "July 31 – Christchurch, New Zealand, is chartered as a city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371140008#July–September", "title": "1856", "revid": 1371140008, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1863, "year_label": "1863 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "December 1", "text": "December 1 – The first steam-operated passenger railway in New Zealand opens at Christchurch in South Island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363782030#December", "title": "1863", "revid": 1363782030, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1863, "year_label": "1863 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 13", "text": "June 13 – Samuel Butler's dystopian article \"Darwin among the Machines\" is published (under the pen name Cellarius) in The Press newspaper in Christchurch, New Zealand; it will be incorporated into his novel Erewhon (1872).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363782030#June", "title": "1863", "revid": 1363782030, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1906, "year_label": "1906 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1 – International Exhibition opens in Christchurch, New Zealand.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373343237#November–December", "title": "1906", "revid": 1373343237, "section": "Events › November–December"}}, {"year": 1947, "year_label": "1947 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "November 18", "text": "November 18 – Ballantyne's fire: A fire in Ballantynes department store in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371901060#November", "title": "1947", "revid": 1371901060, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 2010, "year_label": "2010 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 4", "text": "September 4 – A 7.1 magnitude earthquake rocks Christchurch, New Zealand causing large amounts of damage but no direct fatalities. It is the first in a series of earthquakes between 2010 and 2012 that resulted in the deaths of 187 people and over $40 billion worth of damage. Seismologists noted that the earthquake sequence was highly unusual, and likely to never happen again anywhere else in the world.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372829682#September", "title": "2010", "revid": 1372829682, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2011, "year_label": "2011 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "February 22", "text": "February 22 – A 6.3 magnitude earthquake strikes Christchurch, in what becomes New Zealand's third-deadliest natural disaster. 185 people are killed, many ESL students within the CTV Building, and the city centre and 10,000 homes are destroyed. Many foreign search and rescue workers respond to the event.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372940525#February", "title": "2011", "revid": 1372940525, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 2019, "year_label": "2019 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 15", "text": "March 15 – 51 people are killed and 50 others injured in terrorist attacks on two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. It is the deadliest mass shooting and terrorist attack in New Zealand's history.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373255188#March", "title": "2019", "revid": 1373255188, "section": "Events › March"}}]}