{"slug": "city-of-london", "label": "City of London", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23311", "qid": "Q23311", "description": "central business district of London, England", "entries": 12, "years": 11, "span": [1210, 1748], "span_label": ["1210 CE", "1748 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 4}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "kingdom-of-england", "label": "Kingdom of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "order-of-saint-benedict", "label": "Order of Saint Benedict", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "old-style-and-new-style-dates", "label": "Old Style and New Style dates", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "royal-charter", "label": "Royal charter", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thomas-more", "label": "Thomas More", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "old-st-paul-s-cathedral", "label": "Old St Paul's Cathedral", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "john-wesley", "label": "John Wesley", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1210, "year_label": "1210 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The church of St Helen's Bishopsgate in the City of London is founded, as a priory of Benedictine nuns.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321284058#Religion", "title": "1210", "revid": 1321284058, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1272, "year_label": "1272 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Worshipful Company of Cordwainers and Curriers are granted rights to regulate the leather trade in the City of London. The Fishmongers Company receive its first Royal Charter.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362176275#England", "title": "1272", "revid": 1362176275, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1403, "year_label": "1403 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "A guild of stationers is founded in the City of London. As the Worshipful Company of Stationers and Newspaper Makers (the \"Stationers' Company\"), it continues to be a livery company in the 21st century.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371593649#Date_unknown", "title": "1403", "revid": 1371593649, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1428, "year_label": "1428 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "A serious fire occurs at Baynard's Castle in the City of London, England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359832254#Date_unknown", "title": "1428", "revid": 1359832254, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1510, "year_label": "1510 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "September 3", "text": "September 3 – Sir Thomas More becomes undersheriff of the City of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366972051#July–September", "title": "1510", "revid": 1366972051, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1561, "year_label": "1561 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Merchant Taylors' School is founded in the City of London by Sir Thomas White, Sir Richard Hilles, Emanuel Lucar, and Stephen Hales.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358043209#Date_unknown", "title": "1561", "revid": 1358043209, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1561, "year_label": "1561 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – The spire of Old St Paul's Cathedral in the City of London catches fire and crashes through the nave roof, probably as the result of a lightning strike. The spire is not rebuilt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358043209#April–June", "title": "1561", "revid": 1358043209, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1689, "year_label": "1689 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 3", "text": "September 3–12 – Messengers from over 100 Baptist churches assemble in the City of London to discuss and endorse the 1677 document that will become known as the 1689 Baptist Confession of Faith.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365638130#July–September", "title": "1689", "revid": 1365638130, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1690, "year_label": "1690 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 7", "text": "January 7 – The first recorded full peal is rung, at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate in the City of London, marking a new era in change ringing.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369486553#January–March", "title": "1690", "revid": 1369486553, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1702, "year_label": "1702 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 22", "text": "March 22 (March 11 Old Style) – The first regular English-language national newspaper, The Daily Courant, begins publication on Fleet Street in the City of London, initially by Elizabeth Mallet; it covers only foreign news.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362986314#January–March", "title": "1702", "revid": 1362986314, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1738, "year_label": "1738 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 24", "text": "May 24 – John Wesley, newly returned from America, experiences a spiritual rebirth at a Moravian Church meeting in Aldersgate, in the City of London, essentially launching the Methodist movement; the day is celebrated annually by Methodists as Aldersgate Day (his younger brother Charles had a similar experience three days earlier).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363165384#April–June", "title": "1738", "revid": 1363165384, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1748, "year_label": "1748 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – A fire in the City of London starts at Change Alley in Cornhill and continues for two days. Dr. Samuel Johnson later writes, \"The conflagration of a city, with all its turmoil and concominant distress, is one of the most dreadful spectacles which this world can afford to human eyes\". Another history notes more than a century later that \"the fire led to a great increase in the practice of fire insurance\", after the blaze causes more than £1,000,000 worth of damage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361284371#January–March", "title": "1748", "revid": 1361284371, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}