{"slug": "god", "label": "God", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q190", "qid": "Q190", "description": "principal object of faith in monotheistic religions, a divine entity that created and typically supervises all existence", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [303, 1950], "span_label": ["303 CE", "1950 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "kingdom-of-england", "label": "Kingdom of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "virginia", "label": "Virginia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alexandria", "label": "Alexandria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "september", "label": "September", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jesus", "label": "Jesus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bithynia", "label": "Bithynia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nicomedia", "label": "Nicomedia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "switzerland", "label": "Switzerland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "christians", "label": "Christians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "diocletian", "label": "Diocletian", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "galerius", "label": "Galerius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charles-vii-of-france", "label": "Charles VII of France", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 303, "year_label": "303 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Great Persecution: Emperor Diocletian launches the last and largest major persecution of Christians in the Empire. Caesar Galerius and Hierocles are said to have been the instigators. In a series of four edicts published from February 23, 303, to 304, the Christians are forbidden to worship in groups, are made to perform sacrifices, and must surrender sacred texts. Churches are destroyed, and the clergy are arrested en masse. The persecution lasts in some parts of the empire until 313, and thousands of Christians are killed. Those put to death include Agnes of Rome, a 12-year-old Christian girl who has refused marriage and consecrated her virginity to God. Hailed as a martyr, she will be honored as the patron saint of chastity, gardeners, rape victims and virgins.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330172013#Roman_Empire", "title": "303", "revid": 1330172013, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 323, "year_label": "323 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The poetic work Banquet (Thalia) by the Libyan-born Egyptian Christian priest Arius, age 73, expresses the doctrine that Jesus of Nazareth was not of the same substance as God but rather had a finite nature. As an ascetic, he leads a Christian community near Alexandria, and comes under suspicion of heresy. Arius writes to his former schoolmate Eusebius, bishop of Nicomedia, asking for support. Eusebius writes to other bishops, and when Arius is condemned in September, Eusebius gives him safe haven, and sponsors a synod at Bithynia in October, which nullifies Arius's excommunication (see Council of Nicaea).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1336366222#Religion", "title": "323", "revid": 1336366222, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 470, "year_label": "470 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Mamertus, bishop of Vienne, introduces the Rogation days (a three days' procession involving prayer to invoke God's mercy).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333241735#Religion", "title": "470", "revid": 1333241735, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 515, "year_label": "515 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The St. Maurice's Abbey (Switzerland) is founded by Sigismund of Burgundy. He sets up five groups of monks to whom he entrusts the liturgy of the praise of God.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754462#Religion", "title": "515", "revid": 1364754462, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1428, "year_label": "1428 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 13", "text": "May 13 – Joan of Arc makes her first attempt to reach the Armagnac court at Chinon, arriving at Vaucouleurs speaking to Robert de Baudricourt, captain of the royal garrison, and tells him that God told her in a vision that she had a mission to help restore the Dauphin Charles to the throne. Baudricourt initially declines her request to be given an escort to visit Charles in person.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359832254#April–June", "title": "1428", "revid": 1359832254, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1619, "year_label": "1619 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 4", "text": "December 4 – Thirty-eight colonists from England disembark in Berkeley Hundred, Virginia from the Margaret of Bristol and have a day of celebration to give thanks to God, in what is considered by some historians to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369562130#October–December", "title": "1619", "revid": 1369562130, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1888, "year_label": "1888 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 9", "text": "August 9 – The Oaths Act permits the oath of allegiance taken to the Sovereign by Members of Parliament (MPs) to be affirmed, rather than sworn to God, thus confirming the ability of atheists to sit in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372679419#August", "title": "1888", "revid": 1372679419, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1950, "year_label": "1950 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1 – Pope Pius XII witnesses the \"Miracle of the Sun\" at the Vatican and defines a new dogma of Roman Catholicism, the Munificentissimus Deus, which says that God took Mary's body into Heaven after her death (the \"Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary\").", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371638577#November", "title": "1950", "revid": 1371638577, "section": "Events › November"}}]}