{"slug": "glasgow", "label": "Glasgow", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glasgow", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4093", "qid": "Q4093", "description": "city in Scotland, United Kingdom", "entries": 20, "years": 18, "span": [1134, 2021], "span_label": ["1134 CE", "2021 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 7}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 4}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "association-football", "label": "Association football", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "palace-of-westminster", "label": "Palace of Westminster", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "may", "label": "May", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "edinburgh", "label": "Edinburgh", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cunard-line", "label": "Cunard Line", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1134, "year_label": "1134 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Church of St. James is dedicated in Glasgow.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321069056#Religion", "title": "1134", "revid": 1321069056, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1305, "year_label": "1305 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "August 3", "text": "August 3 – William Wallace, Scottish rebel leader and knight, is captured near Glasgow at Robroyston, by English troops led by John de Menteith. He is transported to London and led, crowned mockingly with laurel, in procession to Westminster Hall.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1297125288#July_–_September", "title": "1305", "revid": 1297125288, "section": "Events › July – September"}}, {"year": 1749, "year_label": "1749 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – A fire in Glasgow leaves 200 families homeless.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360727483#April–June", "title": "1749", "revid": 1360727483, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1749, "year_label": "1749 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6 – A \"corpse riot\" breaks out in Glasgow after a body disappears from a churchyard in the Gorbals district. Suspicion falls on anatomy students at the Glasgow Infirmary \"had raised a dead body from the grave and carried it to the college\" for dissection. The city guard intervenes after a mob of protesters begins breaking windows at random buildings, but groups of citizens begin to make regular patrols of church graveyards", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360727483#January–March", "title": "1749", "revid": 1360727483, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1817, "year_label": "1817 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "A typhus epidemic occurs in Edinburgh and Glasgow.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360260504#Date_unknown", "title": "1817", "revid": 1360260504, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1834, "year_label": "1834 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March", "text": "March – John Scott Russell's Scottish Steam Carriage Company begins operating a regular passenger service in west central Scotland on the open road between Glasgow and Paisley, Renfrewshire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360367111#January–March", "title": "1834", "revid": 1360367111, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1872, "year_label": "1872 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May", "text": "May – Rangers F.C., founded in March as an Association football club in Glasgow (Scotland) by brothers Moses and Peter McNeil, Peter Campbell and William McBeath, play their first ever game on the public pitches of Glasgow Green, a 0 to 0 draw against Callander.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371307490#May", "title": "1872", "revid": 1371307490, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1873, "year_label": "1873 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 2", "text": "October 2 – The British ship SS Ismailia, an Anchor Line steamer that departed from New York on September 30 with 52 people disappears while en route to Glasgow.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370305657#October", "title": "1873", "revid": 1370305657, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1882, "year_label": "1882 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June", "text": "St Andrew's Ambulance Association is founded in Glasgow, Scotland; St. John Ambulance Canada is also founded this year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360586433#June", "title": "1882", "revid": 1360586433, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1883, "year_label": "1883 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 3", "text": "July 3 – The SS Daphne sinks on launch in Glasgow, Scotland, leaving 124 dead.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366127181#July", "title": "1883", "revid": 1366127181, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1883, "year_label": "1883 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October 4", "text": "October 4 – The Boys' Brigade (the first uniformed youth organization in existence) is founded in Glasgow, Scotland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366127181#October", "title": "1883", "revid": 1366127181, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1887, "year_label": "1887 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "November 6", "text": "November 6 – The Association football club Celtic F.C. is formed in Glasgow, Scotland, by Irish Marist Brother Walfrid, to help alleviate poverty in the city's East End by raising money for his charity, the 'Poor Children's Dinner Table'.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363052310#November", "title": "1887", "revid": 1363052310, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1888, "year_label": "1888 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 8", "text": "May 8 – The International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow opens (continues to November).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372679419#May", "title": "1888", "revid": 1372679419, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1906, "year_label": "1906 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "June 7", "text": "June 7 – Cunard liner is launched in Glasgow, as the world's largest ship.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373343237#May–June", "title": "1906", "revid": 1373343237, "section": "Events › May–June"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 18", "text": "May 18 – Real Madrid beat Eintracht Frankfurt 7–3 at Hampden Park, Glasgow, and win the 1959–60 European Cup in Association football, their 5th successive victory in the competition.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#May", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1964, "year_label": "1964 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 16", "text": "April 16 – In the Assize Court at Buckingham, England, sentences totalling 307 years are passed on twelve men who stole £2,600,000 in used bank notes, after holding up the night train from Glasgow to London in August 1963 – a heist that becomes known as the Great Train Robbery.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371069587#April", "title": "1964", "revid": 1371069587, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – Glasgow begins its year as European Capital of Culture.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#January", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2013, "year_label": "2013 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "November 29", "text": "November 29 – A police helicopter crashes into The Clutha, a pub in Glasgow, Scotland, killing 10 people and injuring 31.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373160550#November", "title": "2013", "revid": 1373160550, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 2014, "year_label": "2014 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 23", "text": "July 23–August 3 – The 2014 Commonwealth Games takes place in Glasgow, Scotland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373534475#July", "title": "2014", "revid": 1373534475, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2021, "year_label": "2021 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "October 31", "text": "October 31 – October 31–November 13 – The 2021 United Nations Climate Change Conference is held in Glasgow, after being postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19. A deal is agreed by world leaders, which includes a \"phasedown\" of unabated coal power, a 30% cut in methane emissions by 2030, plans for a halt to deforestation by 2030, and increased financial support for developing countries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372689859#October", "title": "2021", "revid": 1372689859, "section": "Events › October"}}]}