{"slug": "guangdong", "label": "Guangdong", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15175", "qid": "Q15175", "description": "province of China", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [-218, 2003], "span_label": ["219 BCE", "2003 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "fujian", "label": "Fujian", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "song-dynasty", "label": "Song dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hangzhou", "label": "Hangzhou", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kublai-khan", "label": "Kublai Khan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kangxi-emperor", "label": "Kangxi Emperor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "shandong", "label": "Shandong", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "zhejiang", "label": "Zhejiang", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "southern-han", "label": "Southern Han", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "min-ten-kingdoms", "label": "Min (Ten Kingdoms)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "qin-shi-huang", "label": "Qin Shi Huang", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -218, "year_label": "219 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Qin Shi Huang orders his generals to capture present-day Guangdong and Guangxi.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325717539#China", "title": "219 BC", "revid": 1325717539, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 917, "year_label": "917 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 – The Great Yue Kingdom, later renamed Southern Han, is founded by Liu Yan, former governor and military advisor, in Panyu (modern Guangdong) and Guangxi. Liu Yan declares himself emperor, and gives his niece Liu Hua in marriage to Wang Yanjun, a son of his rival Wang Shenzhi (Prince of Min), to cement a relationship between the two states.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468140#Asia", "title": "917", "revid": 1364468140, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1276, "year_label": "1276 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – The court of the Southern Song dynasty of China and hundreds of thousands of its citizens flee from Hangzhou to Fujian, and then Guangdong, in an effort to escape a Mongol invasion under Kublai Khan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1344445633#Asia", "title": "1276", "revid": 1344445633, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1661, "year_label": "1661 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Great Clearance in China: evacuation of Guangdong is required.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365986603#Date_unknown", "title": "1661", "revid": 1365986603, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1668, "year_label": "1668 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 16", "text": "December 16 – In China, the 1661 edict of the \"Great Clearance\", the forcible evacuation of the coastal areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangnan, and Shandong in order to fight a rebellion, is rescinded by the Kangxi Emperor after lobbying by Zhou Youde, the Viceroy of Liangguang.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365989896#October_–December", "title": "1668", "revid": 1365989896, "section": "Events › October –December"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 2", "text": "October 2 – According to The Civil Aviation of China, two commercial planes collide on the runway at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Guangdong, China. The total death toll is 128; 53 people were wounded, 97 were rescued.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#October", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2002, "year_label": "2002 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "November 16", "text": "November 16 – 2002–2004 SARS outbreak: The first case of the Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic, a zoonosis caused by a coronavirus, is recorded in Guangdong province of south China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372652846#November", "title": "2002", "revid": 1372652846, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 2003, "year_label": "2003 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 2", "text": "September 2 – Typhoon Dujuan makes landfall in Guangdong as a category 1 typhoon with sustained winds of 90 mph.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371470479#September", "title": "2003", "revid": 1371470479, "section": "Events › September"}}]}