{"slug": "eastern-europe", "label": "Eastern Europe", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Europe", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q27468", "qid": "Q27468", "description": "eastern part of Europe", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [600, 1991], "span_label": ["600 CE", "1991 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "constantinople", "label": "Constantinople", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arabs", "label": "Arabs", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "constantine-v", "label": "Constantine V", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "leo-iii-the-isaurian", "label": "Leo III the Isaurian", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "germany", "label": "Germany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "berlin", "label": "Berlin", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "west-germany", "label": "West Germany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "east-germany", "label": "East Germany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "western-europe", "label": "Western Europe", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-states-congress", "label": "United States Congress", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jews", "label": "Jews", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 600, "year_label": "600 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Germanic peoples, due to the more abundant food supply available, use the \"moldboard\" plow, introduced by the Slavs in Eastern Europe. The plow works the land with horses and oxen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751689#Arts_and_sciences", "title": "600", "revid": 1364751689, "section": "Events › By topic › Arts and sciences"}}, {"year": 741, "year_label": "741 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 18", "text": "June 18 – Emperor Leo III (\"the Isaurian\") dies of dropsy at Constantinople, after a 24-year reign that has saved the Byzantine Empire and delivered Eastern Europe from the threat of an Arab conquest. He is succeeded by his son Constantine V.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1322653390#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "741", "revid": 1322653390, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 828, "year_label": "828 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "At the instigation of Adalram, archbishop of Salzburg, the first Christian church in Central and Eastern Europe is built in Nitra, Pannonia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941478#Religion", "title": "828", "revid": 1340941478, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1223, "year_label": "1223 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Mongol forces capture the nominally Genoese trading outpost of Sudak, probably with the tacit approval of neighbouring rival Venetian outposts in the Crimea. Subutai promises to destroy any non-Venetian colonies in the area. In return, the Venetians provide Subutai with information about the kingdoms in Eastern Europe. Meanwhile, Köten Khan, Cuman/Kipchak chieftain of the Polovtsians, convinces Prince Mstislav Mstislavich of Galicia to form an alliance, and informs him of his plight against the Mongols.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1336497375#Mongol_Empire", "title": "1223", "revid": 1336497375, "section": "Events › Other events, by place › Mongol Empire"}}, {"year": 1921, "year_label": "1921 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 19", "text": "May 19 – The Emergency Quota Act is passed by the United States Congress, establishing national quotas on immigration. Because this drastically limits immigration from Eastern Europe, Jews emigrating from there begin to prefer Palestine as a destination rather than the U.S.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371086035#May", "title": "1921", "revid": 1371086035, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1961, "year_label": "1961 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "August 13", "text": "August 13 – Berlin Crisis of 1961: Construction of the Berlin Wall begins, restricting movement between East Berlin and West Berlin, and forming a clear boundary between West Germany and East Germany, Western Europe and Eastern Europe (until 1989, when Berlin and Germany both reunified in 1990, following the Fall of the Berlin Wall). On August 22 Ida Siekmann jumps from a window in her tenement building trying to flee to the West, becoming the first of at least 138 deaths at the Wall.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372676854#August", "title": "1961", "revid": 1372676854, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1989, "year_label": "1989 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – 1989 Polish legislative election: Solidarity's victory in the first round is the first of many anti-communist revolutions of 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369557705#June", "title": "1989", "revid": 1369557705, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1991, "year_label": "1991 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 13", "text": "October 13 – In the Bulgarian parliamentary election, the Union of Democratic Forces defeats the Bulgarian Socialist Party, leaving no remaining Communist governments in Eastern Europe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371487470#October", "title": "1991", "revid": 1371487470, "section": "Events › October"}}]}