{"slug": "eritrea", "label": "Eritrea", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eritrea", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q986", "qid": "Q986", "description": "country in the Horn of Africa", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [960, 2018], "span_label": ["960 CE", "2018 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ethiopia", "label": "Ethiopia", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "benito-mussolini", "label": "Benito Mussolini", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-italy", "label": "Kingdom of Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-aksum", "label": "Kingdom of Aksum", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 960, "year_label": "960 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Kingdom of Aksum (modern Eritrea) is destroyed by Beta Israel invaders, under the leadership of Queen Gudit (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365272128#Africa", "title": "960", "revid": 1365272128, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1889, "year_label": "1889 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 2", "text": "May 2 – Menelik II, Emperor of Ethiopia, signs a treaty of amity with Italy, giving Italy control over what will become Eritrea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367594292#May", "title": "1889", "revid": 1367594292, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1890, "year_label": "1890 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony in the Horn of Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364071388#January", "title": "1890", "revid": 1364071388, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1936, "year_label": "1936 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 9", "text": "May 9 – Speaking in Rome, Benito Mussolini announces the foundation of the empire, as Italian East Africa is formed from the Italian territories of Eritrea, Ethiopia and Italian Somaliland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373216494#May–June", "title": "1936", "revid": 1373216494, "section": "Events › May–June"}}, {"year": 1937, "year_label": "1937 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 19", "text": "February 19 – Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades. Italian security guards fire into the crowd of Ethiopian onlookers. Authorities exact further reprisals, which include indiscriminately slaughtering native Ethiopians over the next 3 days, detaining thousands of Ethiopians at Danan and slaughtering almost 300 monks at the Debre Libanos Monastery.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371759714#February", "title": "1937", "revid": 1371759714, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1988, "year_label": "1988 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 17", "text": "March 17 – Eritrean War of Independence – Battle of Afabet: The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on 3 sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373532411#March", "title": "1988", "revid": 1373532411, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1998, "year_label": "1998 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 6", "text": "May 6 – A large Eritrean mechanized force enters Badme in Tigray Region, Ethiopia, resulting in the Eritrean–Ethiopian War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373236679#May", "title": "1998", "revid": 1373236679, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 2018, "year_label": "2018 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 9", "text": "July 9 – Eritrea and Ethiopia officially declare an end to their twenty-year conflict.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373090883#July", "title": "2018", "revid": 1373090883, "section": "Events › July"}}]}