{"slug": "james-monroe", "label": "James Monroe", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Monroe", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q11815", "qid": "Q11815", "description": "president of the United States from 1817 to 1825 (1758–1831)", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [1758, 1831], "span_label": ["1758 CE", "1831 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 5}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "john-quincy-adams", "label": "John Quincy Adams", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "president-of-the-united-states", "label": "President of the United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-orleans", "label": "New Orleans", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "andrew-jackson", "label": "Andrew Jackson", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-hampshire", "label": "New Hampshire", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1758, "year_label": "1758 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "April 28", "text": "April 28 – James Monroe, fifth President of the United States (d. 1831)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366206062#Births", "title": "1758", "revid": 1366206062, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1803, "year_label": "1803 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 30", "text": "January 30 – Monroe and Livingston sail for Paris to discuss, and possibly buy, New Orleans; they end up completing the Louisiana Purchase.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373209562#January–March", "title": "1803", "revid": 1373209562, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1816, "year_label": "1816 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 16", "text": "March 16 – U.S. Secretary of State James Monroe is nominated by a caucus of Democratic-Republican Party members of Congress, to be its party's representative in the U.S. presidential election; Monroe receives 65 votes, and Secretary of War William H. Crawford receives 54 votes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363267979#January–March", "title": "1816", "revid": 1363267979, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1816, "year_label": "1816 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1–December 3 – 1816 United States presidential election: James Monroe defeats Rufus King.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363267979#October–December", "title": "1816", "revid": 1363267979, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1818, "year_label": "1818 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 15", "text": "July 15 – U.S. President James Monroe convenes a cabinet meeting, to discuss whether General Andrew Jackson's unauthorized invasion and conquest of Spanish Florida should be disavowed by the White House. Secretary of State John Quincy Adams persuades the President that the action is justifiable, in stopping terror caused by the Seminole tribes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373165947#July–September", "title": "1818", "revid": 1373165947, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1820, "year_label": "1820 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 3", "text": "December 3 – James Monroe is re-elected, virtually unopposed, in the 1820 United States presidential election. One elector, William Plumer of New Hampshire, casts his vote for John Quincy Adams in order to protest the administration of Monroe and Daniel Tompkins while also establishing Adams as a contender for the election in 1824.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368795492#October–December", "title": "1820", "revid": 1368795492, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1823, "year_label": "1823 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 2", "text": "December 2 – James Monroe first introduces the Monroe Doctrine in the State of the Union address, declaring that any European attempts to recolonize the Americas would be considered a hostile act towards the United States.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361959841#October–December", "title": "1823", "revid": 1361959841, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1831, "year_label": "1831 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 4", "text": "July 4 – James Monroe, 73, 5th President of the United States (b. 1758)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360358594#July–December", "title": "1831", "revid": 1360358594, "section": "Deaths › July–December"}}]}