{"slug": "ivory-coast", "label": "Ivory Coast", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivory_Coast", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1008", "qid": "Q1008", "description": "sovereign state in West Africa", "entries": 10, "years": 10, "span": [1471, 2002], "span_label": ["1471 CE", "2002 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "january", "label": "January", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-john-paul-ii", "label": "Pope John Paul II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tanzania", "label": "Tanzania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rwanda", "label": "Rwanda", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1471, "year_label": "1471 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January", "text": "January – Portuguese navigators João de Santarém and Pedro Escobar reach the gold-trading centre of Elmina on the Gold Coast of west Africa, and explore Cape St. Catherine, two degrees south of the equator, so that they begin to be guided by the Southern Cross constellation. They also visit Sassandra on the Ivory Coast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370196979#January–March", "title": "1471", "revid": 1370196979, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1637, "year_label": "1637 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "France places a few missionaries in the Ivory Coast, a country it will rule more than 200 years later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1339166592#Date_unknown", "title": "1637", "revid": 1339166592, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 10", "text": "March 10 – Ivory Coast becomes a French colony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369946190#March", "title": "1893", "revid": 1369946190, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1896, "year_label": "1896 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "France establishes an administrative post in Abengourou, Ivory Coast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364785538#Date_unknown", "title": "1896", "revid": 1364785538, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1934, "year_label": "1934 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Abidjan becomes the capital of the French colony of Ivory Coast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372993239#Date_unknown", "title": "1934", "revid": 1372993239, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1954, "year_label": "1954 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 10", "text": "April 10 – The modern form of value-added tax is first implemented by Maurice Lauré, joint director of the French tax authority, in France's Ivory Coast colony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369212684#April", "title": "1954", "revid": 1369212684, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1986, "year_label": "1986 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April", "text": "April – The government of Ivory Coast requests international diplomatic use of the French form of its name, Côte d'Ivoire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373510075#April", "title": "1986", "revid": 1373510075, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Ivory Coast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#September", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2000, "year_label": "2000 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 30", "text": "January 30 – Kenya Airways Flight 431 crashes off the Ivory Coast into the Atlantic Ocean, killing 169 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371541477#January", "title": "2000", "revid": 1371541477, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2002, "year_label": "2002 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 19", "text": "September 19 – General Robert Guéï leads an army mutiny in an attempt to overthrow Ivory Coast President Laurent Gbagbo, resulting in civil war.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372652846#September", "title": "2002", "revid": 1372652846, "section": "Events › September"}}]}