{"slug": "druze", "label": "Druze", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druze", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q163943", "qid": "Q163943", "description": "Arab ethnoreligious group of the Levant", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [985, 2025], "span_label": ["985 CE", "2025 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ottoman-empire", "label": "Ottoman Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "damascus", "label": "Damascus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "prussia", "label": "Prussia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lebanon", "label": "Lebanon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "fatimid-caliphate", "label": "Fatimid Caliphate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bedouin", "label": "Bedouin", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 985, "year_label": "985 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Hamza ibn 'Ali ibn-Ahmad, founding leader of the Druze", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468346#Births", "title": "985", "revid": 1364468346, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1017, "year_label": "1017 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Hamza ibn-'Ali ibn-Ahmad publicly declares the founding of the Druze religion, during the reign of the Fatimid Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342212758#Arabian_Empire", "title": "1017", "revid": 1342212758, "section": "Events › Arabian Empire"}}, {"year": 1021, "year_label": "1021 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Hamza ibn 'Ali ibn-Ahmad, founding leader of the Druze", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342212958#Deaths", "title": "1021", "revid": 1342212958, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1523, "year_label": "1523 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 27", "text": "October 27 – Hürrem Pasha, the Ottoman Empire's Governor-General of the Damascus Eyalet (which includes parts of what will become Syria, Israel, Jordan and Palestine) begins a punitive expedition through Lebanon against the Druze of Chouf. During the first campaign, Hürrem's troops burn 43 villages and kill at least 400 Druze.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561167#October–December", "title": "1523", "revid": 1369561167, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1635, "year_label": "1635 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 13", "text": "April 13 – Druze warlord Fakhr-al-Din II is executed in Constantinople.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360049087#April–June", "title": "1635", "revid": 1360049087, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1860, "year_label": "1860 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Christians and Druzes clash in Damascus, Syria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371066131#Date_unknown", "title": "1860", "revid": 1371066131, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1860, "year_label": "1860 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 5", "text": "October 5 – Austria, Britain, France, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire form a commission to investigate the causes of the massacres of Maronite Christians, committed by Druzes in Lebanon earlier in the year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371066131#October", "title": "1860", "revid": 1371066131, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1926, "year_label": "1926 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 9", "text": "May 9 – The French navy bombards Damascus, because of Druze riots.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503199#May", "title": "1926", "revid": 1373503199, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 2025, "year_label": "2025 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 13", "text": "July 13 – Several clashes erupt in southern Syria between armed Druze and Bedouin groups.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372865033#July", "title": "2025", "revid": 1372865033, "section": "Events › July"}}]}