{"slug": "guyana", "label": "Guyana", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guyana", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q734", "qid": "Q734", "description": "country in South America", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1616, 1997], "span_label": ["1616 CE", "1997 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "barbados", "label": "Barbados", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "trinidad-and-tobago", "label": "Trinidad and Tobago", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "commonwealth-of-nations", "label": "Commonwealth of Nations", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Dutch establish their colony of Essequibo, in the region of the Essequibo River, in northern South America (modern-day Guyana), for sugar and tobacco production. The colony is protected by Fort Kyk-Over-Al. The Dutch also map the Delaware River in North America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#Date_unknown", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1714, "year_label": "1714 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 24", "text": "October 24 – Four Dutch investors, led by brothers Nicolaas and Hendrik van Hoorn, purchase the South American colony of Berbice from French mercenary Jacques Cassard, who had captured the colony from the Van Peere family. A century later, in 1815, the land is ceded to Great Britain and later merged with neighboring colonies to form what is now Guyana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366497107#October–December", "title": "1714", "revid": 1366497107, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1968, "year_label": "1968 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 1", "text": "May 1 – CARIFTA, the Caribbean Free Trade Association, is formally created as an agreement between Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310387#May–June", "title": "1968", "revid": 1371310387, "section": "Events › May–June"}}, {"year": 1970, "year_label": "1970 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 22", "text": "February 22 – Guyana becomes a Republic within the Commonwealth of Nations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370420699#February", "title": "1970", "revid": 1370420699, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1978, "year_label": "1978 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 18", "text": "November 18 – In Guyana, Jim Jones leads his Peoples Temple cult in a mass murder–suicide in his commune, Jonestown, that claims 918 lives in all, 909 of them at Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Representative Leo J. Ryan is assassinated by members of Peoples Temple shortly beforehand.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022681#November", "title": "1978", "revid": 1370022681, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1997, "year_label": "1997 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 19", "text": "December 19 – Janet Jagan (widow of Cheddi Jagan) takes office in Guyana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367978156#December", "title": "1997", "revid": 1367978156, "section": "Events › December"}}]}