{"slug": "dubrovnik", "label": "Dubrovnik", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dubrovnik", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1722", "qid": "Q1722", "description": "city and settlement in Dubrovnik-Neretva County, Croatia", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [615, 1667], "span_label": ["615 CE", "1667 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "croatia", "label": "Croatia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "republic-of-ragusa", "label": "Republic of Ragusa", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "september", "label": "September", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "venice", "label": "Venice", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "illyria", "label": "Illyria", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 615, "year_label": "615 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The city of Epidaurus (Dalmatia) is destroyed by the Avars and Slavic invaders. The Illyrian refugees flee to the nearby island Laus, where they found Dubrovnik (Ragusa). The islands of Rab, Krk and Cres become major food suppliers for the surviving cities of the mainland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364752554#Europe", "title": "615", "revid": 1364752554, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1171, "year_label": "1171 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "September", "text": "September – Doge Vitale II Michiel leads a Venetian fleet (120 ships) against the Byzantines, conquering the cities of Trogir and Dubrovnik. But the plague takes a heavy toll among the fleet's crewmen; half the ships have to be burned to keep them from falling into enemy hands. A plague also breaks out in Venice, when the remaining ships return.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362165802#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "1171", "revid": 1362165802, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1437, "year_label": "1437 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "April 2", "text": "April 2 – A bubonic plague epidemic strikes the independent city of Ragusa (modern-day Dubrovnik in Croatia), capital of the Republic of Ragusa, and a group of 10 patricians reject the chance to flee, staying to govern the city. Within 15 days, nine of the ten are dead, and only Marin Simunov Rastic survives. The progress of the plague, which lasts for more than two months, is chronicled by an Italian-born resident, Opis Diversis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358546204#April–June", "title": "1437", "revid": 1358546204, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1492, "year_label": "1492 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The first arboretum to be designed and planted is the Arboretum Trsteno, near Dubrovnik in current-day Croatia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366150846#Unknown_dates", "title": "1492", "revid": 1366150846, "section": "Events › Unknown dates"}}, {"year": 1516, "year_label": "1516 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "May 6", "text": "May 6 – A Category IX earthquake strikes Ragusa in the Republic of Ragusa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368315851#April–June", "title": "1516", "revid": 1368315851, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1667, "year_label": "1667 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – The 1667 Dubrovnik earthquake in the Republic of Ragusa (part of modern-day Croatia) kills as many as 5,000 people, roughly one sixth of the population, and levels most of the buildings in Dubrovnik.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365989201#April–June", "title": "1667", "revid": 1365989201, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}