{"slug": "kansas", "label": "Kansas", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1558", "qid": "Q1558", "description": "state of the United States of America", "entries": 8, "years": 8, "span": [1601, 1991], "span_label": ["1601 CE", "1991 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "texas", "label": "Texas", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "minnesota", "label": "Minnesota", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "montana", "label": "Montana", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "franklin-d-roosevelt", "label": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1601, "year_label": "1601 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "September 19", "text": "September 19 – The Juan de Oñate expedition of Spanish explorers first encounters the indigenous Escanjaque Indians in what is now the U.S. state of Kansas. The Escanjaques ask the Spaniards to assist them in a war against a rival tribe, the Rayados. Instead, Oñate befriends the Rayados five days later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369165918#July–September", "title": "1601", "revid": 1369165918, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1853, "year_label": "1853 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "February 22", "text": "February 22 – Annie Le Porte Diggs, Canadian-born state librarian of Kansas (d. 1916)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352708271#January–March", "title": "1853", "revid": 1352708271, "section": "Births › January–March"}}, {"year": 1858, "year_label": "1858 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 19", "text": "May 19 – \"Bleeding Kansas: The Marais des Cygnes massacre is perpetrated by pro-slavery forces in the U.S. state of Kansas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371625769#April–June", "title": "1858", "revid": 1371625769, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1871, "year_label": "1871 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 17", "text": "June 17– The Parsons Sun newspaper in Parsons, Kansas is founded by Milton W. Reynolds and Leslie J. Perry, though the latter left after the first issue was published.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368649173#April–June", "title": "1871", "revid": 1368649173, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1881, "year_label": "1881 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "February 19", "text": "February 19 – Kansas becomes the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369747876#February", "title": "1881", "revid": 1369747876, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1888, "year_label": "1888 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 12", "text": "January 12 – The Schoolhouse Blizzard hits Dakota Territory and the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of them children on their way home from school.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372679419#January", "title": "1888", "revid": 1372679419, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1936, "year_label": "1936 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "November 3", "text": "November 3 – 1936 United States presidential election: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term, in a landslide victory over Kansas Governor Alf Landon; farmers support Roosevelt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373216494#November–December", "title": "1936", "revid": 1373216494, "section": "Events › November–December"}}, {"year": 1991, "year_label": "1991 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "April 26", "text": "April 26 – A series of 55 tornadoes break out in the central U.S., killing 21. The most notable tornado strikes Andover, Kansas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371487470#April", "title": "1991", "revid": 1371487470, "section": "Events › April"}}]}