{"slug": "isles-of-scilly", "label": "Isles of Scilly", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isles_of_Scilly", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180209", "qid": "Q180209", "description": "archipelago and local government district off the south-westernmost point of mainland Britain", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [1695, 1986], "span_label": ["1695 CE", "1986 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 5}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "netherlands", "label": "Netherlands", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "royal-navy", "label": "Royal Navy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cornwall", "label": "Cornwall", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1695, "year_label": "1695 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 14", "text": "January 14 (January 4 O.S.) – The Royal Navy warship HMS Nonsuch is captured near England's Isles of Scilly by the 48-gun French privateer Le Francois. Nonsuch is then sold to the French Navy and renamed Le Sans Pareil.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368691153#January–March", "title": "1695", "revid": 1368691153, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1707, "year_label": "1707 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 22", "text": "October 22 – Scilly naval disaster: Four British Royal Navy ships run aground in the Isles of Scilly, because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and at least 1,450 sailors all drown.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346936133#October–_December", "title": "1707", "revid": 1346936133, "section": "Events › October– December"}}, {"year": 1743, "year_label": "1743 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 13", "text": "July 13 – All 276 people on board the Dutch East India Company ship Hollandia drown after the ship strikes a rock off of the Isles of Scilly in England near Cornwall. The wreckage is located in 1971.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360887949#July–September", "title": "1743", "revid": 1360887949, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1875, "year_label": "1875 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "May 7", "text": "May 7 – German liner SS Schiller wrecks on the rocks off the Isles of Scilly, with the loss of 335 lives.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371928758#May", "title": "1875", "revid": 1371928758, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1907, "year_label": "1907 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 14", "text": "December 14 – The largest sailing ship ever built, the 7-masted U.S.-owned Thomas W. Lawson, is wrecked in the Isles of Scilly.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373349351#December", "title": "1907", "revid": 1373349351, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1983, "year_label": "1983 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 16", "text": "July 16 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366392977#July", "title": "1983", "revid": 1366392977, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1986, "year_label": "1986 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 17", "text": "April 17 – An alleged state of war lasting 335 years between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace, bringing an end to any hypothetical war that may have existed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373510075#April", "title": "1986", "revid": 1373510075, "section": "Events › April"}}]}