{"slug": "delaware", "label": "Delaware", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1393", "qid": "Q1393", "description": "state of the United States of America", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [1610, 1918], "span_label": ["1610 CE", "1918 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "pennsylvania", "label": "Pennsylvania", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "august", "label": "August", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-netherland", "label": "New Netherland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "maryland", "label": "Maryland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "u-s-state", "label": "U.S. state", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jamestown-virginia", "label": "Jamestown, Virginia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "province-of-pennsylvania", "label": "Province of Pennsylvania", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1610, "year_label": "1610 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 8", "text": "June 8 – Jamestown: Temporary Governor Gates' convoy meets the ships of Governor Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr (Delaware) at Mulberry Island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361322431#April–June", "title": "1610", "revid": 1361322431, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1638, "year_label": "1638 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 – Settlers from Sweden arrive on the ships Kalmar Nyckel and Fogel Grip to establish the settlement of New Sweden in Delaware, beginning the Swedish colonization of the Americas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352457236#January–March", "title": "1638", "revid": 1352457236, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1655, "year_label": "1655 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August", "text": "August – The governor of New Netherland, Peter Stuyvesant, attacks the New Sweden (Delaware) colony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365983750#July–September", "title": "1655", "revid": 1365983750, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1655, "year_label": "1655 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 26", "text": "September 26 – Peter Stuyvesant recaptures the Dutch Fory Casimir, and defeats the New Sweden (Delaware) colony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365983750#July–September", "title": "1655", "revid": 1365983750, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1704, "year_label": "1704 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The lower three counties of the Province of Pennsylvania become the colony of Delaware.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358992532#Date_unknown", "title": "1704", "revid": 1358992532, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1765, "year_label": "1765 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 5", "text": "April 5 – After completing the portion of the Mason–Dixon line marking the semi-circular boundary between Pennsylvania and Delaware, English surveyors Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin the two-and-a-half-year process of plotting out the 230-mile boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland along the latitude of 39°43′20″ N.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373039097#April–June", "title": "1765", "revid": 1373039097, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1767, "year_label": "1767 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 9", "text": "October 9 – Surveying of the \"Mason–Dixon line\", which will later become the traditional division between the northern and southern states of the United States, is completed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon after four years, initially to settle a boundary dispute between the colonies of Delaware, Pennsylvania and Maryland. The survey party is halted at Dunkard Creek when a chief of the Mohawk Indians tells them that they are in Native American territory and that the Mohawks guiding the property \"would not proceed one step further Westward\"; the line, slightly west the 80th meridian west, is now part of the boundary between Pennsylvania and West Virginia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365587024#October_–December", "title": "1767", "revid": 1365587024, "section": "Events › October –December"}}, {"year": 1787, "year_label": "1787 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 7", "text": "December 7 – Delaware ratifies the Constitution, and becomes the first U.S. state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370561702#October–December", "title": "1787", "revid": 1370561702, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1918, "year_label": "1918 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "May 2", "text": "May 2 – General Motors acquires the Chevrolet Motor Company of Delaware.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373520023#May", "title": "1918", "revid": 1373520023, "section": "Events › May"}}]}