{"slug": "david-livingstone", "label": "David Livingstone", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Livingstone", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q48373", "qid": "Q48373", "description": "Scottish missionary and explorer (1813-1873)", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [1813, 1873], "span_label": ["1813 CE", "1873 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 5}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "scottish-people", "label": "Scottish people", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "zambia", "label": "Zambia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "zimbabwe", "label": "Zimbabwe", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1813, "year_label": "1813 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "March 19", "text": "March 19 – David Livingstone, Scottish missionary explorer (d. 1873)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357692833#January–June", "title": "1813", "revid": 1357692833, "section": "Births › January–June"}}, {"year": 1840, "year_label": "1840 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "December 7", "text": "December 7 – David Livingstone leaves Britain for Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360387586#October–December", "title": "1840", "revid": 1360387586, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1841, "year_label": "1841 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 31", "text": "July 31 – Scottish missionary David Livingstone arrives at Kuruman in the Northern Cape, his first posting in Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360265400#July–September", "title": "1841", "revid": 1360265400, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1855, "year_label": "1855 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 17", "text": "November 17 – Scottish missionary explorer David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls, in modern-day Zambia–Zimbabwe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358982600#October–December", "title": "1855", "revid": 1358982600, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1856, "year_label": "1856 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 20", "text": "May 20 – David Livingstone arrives at Quelimane on the Indian Ocean, having completed a 2-year transcontinental journey across Africa from Luanda.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371140008#April–June", "title": "1856", "revid": 1371140008, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1858, "year_label": "1858 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 14", "text": "May 14 – David Livingstone's 6-year Second Zambesi expedition arrives at the African coast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371625769#April–June", "title": "1858", "revid": 1371625769, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1869, "year_label": "1869 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "James Gordon Bennett Jr. of the New York Herald asks Henry Morton Stanley to find Dr. David Livingstone.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360511845#Date_unknown", "title": "1869", "revid": 1360511845, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1871, "year_label": "1871 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 10", "text": "November 10 – Henry Morton Stanley, Welsh-born correspondent for the New York Herald, locates missing Scottish explorer and missionary Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, and greets him by saying, \"Dr. Livingstone, I presume?\" (according to his later account).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368649173#October–December", "title": "1871", "revid": 1368649173, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1873, "year_label": "1873 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 1", "text": "May 1 – David Livingstone, Scottish explorer of Africa (b. 1813)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370305657#January–June", "title": "1873", "revid": 1370305657, "section": "Deaths › January–June"}}]}