{"slug": "crimean-peninsula", "label": "Crimean Peninsula", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean_Peninsula", "wikidata": null, "qid": null, "description": null, "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [-63, 1986], "span_label": ["64 BCE", "1986 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "russian-empire", "label": "Russian Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ottoman-empire", "label": "Ottoman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "black-sea", "label": "Black Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ukraine", "label": "Ukraine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gokturks", "label": "Göktürks", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "looting", "label": "Looting", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pompey", "label": "Pompey", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mithridates-vi", "label": "Mithridates VI", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -63, "year_label": "64 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Pompey destroys the kingdom of Pontus; king Mithridates VI commits suicide after escaping to the Crimea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305139759#Roman_Republic", "title": "64 BC", "revid": 1305139759, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 581, "year_label": "581 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Göktürks under Taspar Qaghan besiege the city of Chersonesos Taurica (modern Ukraine), located at the Black Sea; their cavalry keep plundering the steppes of the Crimean Peninsula until 590.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340801589#Europe", "title": "581", "revid": 1340801589, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1735, "year_label": "1735 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Russo-Turkish War, 1735-1739: Russian forces fail to occupy the Crimea, due to rasputitsa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365121192#Date_unknown", "title": "1735", "revid": 1365121192, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1783, "year_label": "1783 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The city of Sevastopol is founded on the Crimean Peninsula of the Russian Empire, by Rear Admiral Thomas MacKenzie.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370056030#Date_unknown", "title": "1783", "revid": 1370056030, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1784, "year_label": "1784 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 6", "text": "January 6 – Treaty of Constantinople: The Ottoman Empire agrees to Russia's annexation of the Crimea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370567291#January–March", "title": "1784", "revid": 1370567291, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1944, "year_label": "1944 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 14", "text": "December 14 – The Soviet government changes Turkish place names to Russian in Crimea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022611#December", "title": "1944", "revid": 1370022611, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1986, "year_label": "1986 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "March 13", "text": "March 13 – In a Black Sea incident, American cruiser USS Yorktown and the destroyer USS Caron, claiming the right of innocent passage, enter the Soviet territorial waters near the southern Crimean Peninsula.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373510075#March", "title": "1986", "revid": 1373510075, "section": "Events › March"}}]}