{"slug": "coronation", "label": "Coronation", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coronation", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q209715", "qid": "Q209715", "description": "ceremony marking the formal investiture of a monarch and/or their consort with regal power", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [484, 1841], "span_label": ["484 CE", "1841 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "paris", "label": "Paris", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "patrician-ancient-rome", "label": "Patrician (ancient Rome)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pepin-the-short", "label": "Pepin the Short", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "basilica-of-st-denis", "label": "Basilica of St Denis", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-stephen-ii", "label": "Pope Stephen II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "huns", "label": "Huns", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ctesiphon", "label": "Ctesiphon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "persian-people", "label": "Persian people", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sassanid-empire", "label": "Sassanid Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kavadh-i", "label": "Kavadh I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "archbishop-of-canterbury", "label": "Archbishop of Canterbury", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 484, "year_label": "484 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Hephthalites (White Huns) invade Persia. King Peroz I gathers an army of 50,000-100,000 men, and places his brother Balash at the head of the government in Ctesiphon. At the Battle of Herat, the Persians are ambushed and defeated. Peroz I is killed, whose body is not found. Balash is crowned and becomes king of Persia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749511#Asia", "title": "484", "revid": 1364749511, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 488, "year_label": "488 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Kavadh I is crowned by the nobles, and succeeds his blind uncle Balash as the 19th king of Persia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340789358#Persia", "title": "488", "revid": 1340789358, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"year": 754, "year_label": "754 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 28", "text": "July 28 – Pope Stephen II re-consecrates Pepin III (the Short) as king of the Franks, at the Basilica of Saint-Denis outside Paris, bestowing upon him the additional title of Patricius of the Romans. This marks the first recorded crowning of a civil ruler by a pope. Pepin assumes the role of ordained protector of the Catholic Church.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360259946#Europe", "title": "754", "revid": 1360259946, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1170, "year_label": "1170 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 14", "text": "June 14 – King Henry II has his 15-year-old son, Henry the Young King, crowned by Roger, Archbishop of York, as junior king and heir to the English throne. The coronation drives Pope Alexander III to allow the exiled Thomas Becket (whose privilege as Archbishop of Canterbury to crown English monarchs has been infringed) to lay an interdict on England as punishment, and this threat forces Henry to negotiate with Becket. Sir William Marshal is appointed tutor-in-arms to Henry the Young King.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367488642#England", "title": "1170", "revid": 1367488642, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1630, "year_label": "1630 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 17", "text": "October 17 – Empress Meishō's Coronation takes place.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351974391#October–December", "title": "1630", "revid": 1351974391, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1841, "year_label": "1841 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 18", "text": "July 18 – Emperor Pedro II of Brazil is crowned in Rio de Janeiro.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360265400#July–September", "title": "1841", "revid": 1360265400, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}