{"slug": "durban", "label": "Durban", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5468", "qid": "Q5468", "description": "city in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1842, 2001], "span_label": ["1842 CE", "2001 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "cape-town", "label": "Cape Town", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "johannesburg", "label": "Johannesburg", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "herbert-hoover", "label": "Herbert Hoover", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "boer", "label": "Boer", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1842, "year_label": "1842 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – In South Africa, hunter Dick King rides into a British military base in Grahamstown, to warn that the Boers have besieged Durban (he had left 11 days earlier). The British army dispatches a relief force.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365455258#April–June", "title": "1842", "revid": 1365455258, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1904, "year_label": "1904 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "July 22", "text": "July 22 – The first 2,000 of 62,000 contracted Chinese coolies arrive at Durban in South Africa from Qinhuangdao to relieve the shortage of unskilled labourers in the Transvaal Colony gold mines, recruited and shipped by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation (CEMC), of which Herbert Hoover is a director.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373337754#July", "title": "1904", "revid": 1373337754, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1909, "year_label": "1909 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 26", "text": "July 26 – Blue Anchor Line passenger/cargo liner SS Waratah, on her second voyage from Australia to Britain, leaves Durban and is lost without trace with all 211 aboard.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373420847#July–August", "title": "1909", "revid": 1373420847, "section": "Events › July–August"}}, {"year": 1938, "year_label": "1938 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – The South African Press Association is established, with offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Bloemfontein and Pretoria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818751#July", "title": "1938", "revid": 1368818751, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 4", "text": "October 4 – Durban rail accident: At least 150 are killed when a commuter train derails at the outskirts of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#September–October", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › September–October"}}, {"year": 2001, "year_label": "2001 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 31", "text": "August 31 – The World Conference against Racism 2001 begins in Durban, South Africa. Israel and the United States withdraw three days later, alleging antisemitism in the conference.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373523156#August", "title": "2001", "revid": 1373523156, "section": "Events › August"}}]}