{"slug": "holstein", "label": "Holstein", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holstein", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q111224", "qid": "Q111224", "description": "region of Schleswig-Holstein, Germany", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [974, 1864], "span_label": ["974 CE", "1864 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "denmark", "label": "Denmark", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "germany", "label": "Germany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "duchy-of-bavaria", "label": "Duchy of Bavaria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "duchy-of-saxony", "label": "Duchy of Saxony", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "scandinavia", "label": "Scandinavia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "otto-ii-holy-roman-emperor", "label": "Otto II, Holy Roman Emperor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "henry-ii-duke-of-bavaria", "label": "Henry II, Duke of Bavaria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "harald-bluetooth", "label": "Harald Bluetooth", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-germany", "label": "Kingdom of Germany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "slavs", "label": "Slavs", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hanseatic-league", "label": "Hanseatic League", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lubeck", "label": "Lübeck", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 974, "year_label": "974 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Danevirke: Emperor Otto II defeats the rebel forces of King Harald I, who has invaded Nordalbingia (modern-day Holstein), to shake off imperial overlordship. Otto's armies swiftly subdue the Danes, consolidating the frontier between Scandinavia and Northern Germany. Meanwhile, Henry II begins a rebellion against his cousin Otto. He forges alliances with Bavarian and Saxon nobles.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341513416#Europe", "title": "974", "revid": 1341513416, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1143, "year_label": "1143 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Adolf II, count of Schauenburg and Holstein, founds Lübeck – which later becomes one of the leading Hanseatic cities. He divides the conquered Slavic lands, as part of the eastward expansion in Germany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1337864253#Europe", "title": "1143", "revid": 1337864253, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1160, "year_label": "1160 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Adolf III, count of Schaumburg and Holstein (d. 1225)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371224699#Births", "title": "1160", "revid": 1371224699, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1225, "year_label": "1225 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 17", "text": "November 17 – After being taken prisoner of war at the Battle of Mölln in January, the Danish governor Albrecht signs the Peace of Bardowick in order to obtain his freedom, ceding Holstein to Adolf of Schauenberg, in addition to releasing King Valdemar II of Denmark and his son Valdemar the Younger, who both had been kidnapped in 1223 and held as prisoners.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333322984#October_–_December", "title": "1225", "revid": 1333322984, "section": "Events › October – December"}}, {"year": 1525, "year_label": "1525 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 13", "text": "August 13 – The coronation of Sophie of Pomerania as Queen consort of Denmark takes place in Copenhagen, a little more than a year after her husband's coronation as King Frederick I. She is granted Lolland and Falster, the castles in Kiel and Plön, and several villages in Holstein for her income.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368819017#July–September", "title": "1525", "revid": 1368819017, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1643, "year_label": "1643 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 12", "text": "December 12 – Swedish Field Marshal Lennart Torstensson's forces enter Danish territory in Holstein, beginning the Torstenson War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340617365#October–December", "title": "1643", "revid": 1340617365, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1848, "year_label": "1848 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 24", "text": "March 24 – The First Schleswig War (Schleswig-Holsteinischer Krieg, or Three Years' War (Treårskrigen)), a military conflict in southern Denmark and northern Germany rooted in the Schleswig-Holstein Question, contesting the issue of who should control the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, begins.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370038858#January–March", "title": "1848", "revid": 1370038858, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1864, "year_label": "1864 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 30", "text": "October 30 – The Second Schleswig War is concluded. Denmark renounces all claim to Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austrian administration.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369213895#October", "title": "1864", "revid": 1369213895, "section": "Events › October"}}]}