{"slug": "crotone", "label": "Crotone", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crotone", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6681", "qid": "Q6681", "description": "Italian comune", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [-547, 982], "span_label": ["548 BCE", "982 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "lucanians", "label": "Lucanians", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "dionysius-i-of-syracuse", "label": "Dionysius I of Syracuse", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ancient-olympic-games", "label": "Ancient Olympic Games", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "adriatic", "label": "Adriatic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thurii", "label": "Thurii", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "taranto", "label": "Taranto", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "saracens", "label": "Saracens", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -547, "year_label": "548 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Diognetus of Croton wins the stadion race at the Olympic Games.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1303256206#Events", "title": "548 BC", "revid": 1303256206, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -531, "year_label": "532 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Pythagoras arrives in the Greek colony of Croton (modern-day Crotone) in Magna Graecia and founds the philosophical school of Pythagoreanism (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342713127#Europe", "title": "532 BC", "revid": 1342713127, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": -495, "year_label": "496 BCE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Tisicrates of Kroton wins the stadion race at the 71st Olympic Games.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129351#Greece", "title": "496 BC", "revid": 1350129351, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -388, "year_label": "389 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of the Elleporus and the capture of Kroton by Dionysius I of Syracuse", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292700126#Magna_Grecia", "title": "389 BC", "revid": 1292700126, "section": "Events › By place › Magna Grecia"}}, {"year": -386, "year_label": "387 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "With the aid of the Lucanians, Dionysius I of Syracuse devastates the territories of Thurii, Crotone, and Locri in mainland Italy. When Rhegium falls, Dionysius becomes the chief power in Greek Southern Italy. He then turns his attention to the Adriatic and founds the colonies of Ancona (Ankon) and Adria (Adrìa).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367650579#Sicily_and_Adriatic", "title": "387 BC", "revid": 1367650579, "section": "Events › By place › Sicily and Adriatic"}}, {"year": -279, "year_label": "280 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Responding to an appeal from Tarentum, King Pyrrhus of Epirus uses his army of over 20,000 men against the Romans. In the Battle of Heraclea he defeats a Roman army led by consul Publius Valerius Laevinus. Pyrrhus's judicious use of his elephants plays a large part in his victory. Several tribes including the Lucani, Bruttii and the Messapians as well as the Greek cities of Crotone and Locri join Pyrrhus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1338748993#Roman_Republic", "title": "280 BC", "revid": 1338748993, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -276, "year_label": "277 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Consul Publius Cornelius Rufinus campaigns against the Lucanians and the Bruttians and captures Crotone.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1256058749#Italy", "title": "277 BC", "revid": 1256058749, "section": "Events › By place › Italy"}}, {"year": -204, "year_label": "205 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Hannibal erects a bilingual Punic/Greek inscription describing his accomplishments in the temple of Juno Lacinia near Crotone.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361853505#Roman_Republic", "title": "205 BC", "revid": 1361853505, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 982, "year_label": "982 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 13", "text": "July 13 (or 14) – Battle of Stilo: Abu'l-Qasim is cornered by the imperial German forces led by Otto II at Cape Colonna (south of Crotone). After a violent clash, the German heavy cavalry destroys the Muslim centre, killing al-Qasim in the initial fighting. The Saracens hold together and draw Otto into a trap, encircling and defeating his forces (killing around 4,000 men).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468335#Europe", "title": "982", "revid": 1364468335, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}