{"slug": "john-iii-sobieski", "label": "John III Sobieski", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_III_Sobieski", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q53454", "qid": "Q53454", "description": "King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1629–1696)", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [1629, 1716], "span_label": ["1629 CE", "1716 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 4}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "poland", "label": "Poland", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "polishlithuanian-commonwealth", "label": "Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ottoman-empire", "label": "Ottoman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lithuania", "label": "Lithuania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "holy-roman-empire", "label": "Holy Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "warsaw", "label": "Warsaw", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "augustus-ii-the-strong", "label": "Augustus II the Strong", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1629, "year_label": "1629 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "August 17", "text": "August 17 – King John III Sobieski, of Poland (d. 1696)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365103352#July–September", "title": "1629", "revid": 1365103352, "section": "Births › July–September"}}, {"year": 1641, "year_label": "1641 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "June 28", "text": "June 28 – Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, French-born Polish consort to King John III Sobieski (d. 1716)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343658448#April–June", "title": "1641", "revid": 1343658448, "section": "Births › April–June"}}, {"year": 1666, "year_label": "1666 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 13", "text": "July 13 – The Battle of Matwy, the bloodiest engagement of Lubomirski's rebellion, takes place in Poland at the village of Matwy. Jerzy Sebastian Lubomirski, who has led the revolt against Poland's King Jan II Kazimierz, defeats a larger number of troops led by John III Sobieski of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Poland and Lithuania sustain 4,000 deaths compared to 200 rebel casualties.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988943#July–September", "title": "1666", "revid": 1365988943, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1673, "year_label": "1673 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 11", "text": "November 11 – Battle of Khotyn: Polish and Lithuanian military units, under the command of soon-to-be-king Jan Sobieski, defeat the Turkish army. In this battle, which takes place one day after the death of Poland and Lithuania's monarch, Michał Korybut Wiśniowiecki, the rockets invented by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992268#October–December", "title": "1673", "revid": 1365992268, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1674, "year_label": "1674 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 21", "text": "May 21 – John III Sobieski is elected by the nobility, as King of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (to 1696).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365128656#April–June", "title": "1674", "revid": 1365128656, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1683, "year_label": "1683 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 31", "text": "March 31 – Authorized representatives of King John III Sobieski of Poland and Emperor Leopold I of the Holy Roman Empire sign a military alliance treaty in Warsaw.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366000368#January–March", "title": "1683", "revid": 1366000368, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1696, "year_label": "1696 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 17", "text": "June 17 – John III Sobieski, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (b. 1629)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361123555#April–June", "title": "1696", "revid": 1361123555, "section": "Deaths › April–June"}}, {"year": 1696, "year_label": "1696 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "June 17", "text": "June 17 – The throne of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth becomes vacant with the death of Jan Sobieski, prompting a competition between Friedrich Augustus, Elector of Saxony and Prince François Louis of France to compete under the commonwealth's \"Golden Liberty\" system for an elective monarchy of the new king by the nobility. Jerzy Albrecht Denhoff, the Grand Chancellor, remains the head of the Polish-Lithuanian government during the vacancy of the ceremonial throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361123555#April–June", "title": "1696", "revid": 1361123555, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1716, "year_label": "1716 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 30", "text": "January 30 – Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, French-born Polish consort to King John III Sobieski (b. 1641)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360559357#January", "title": "1716", "revid": 1360559357, "section": "Deaths › January"}}]}