{"slug": "liguria", "label": "Liguria", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liguria", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1256", "qid": "Q1256", "description": "Italian region", "entries": 19, "years": 19, "span": [-233, 1809], "span_label": ["234 BCE", "1809 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "genoa", "label": "Genoa", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "alps", "label": "Alps", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "mediolanum", "label": "Mediolanum", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sardinia", "label": "Sardinia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "corsica", "label": "Corsica", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "milan", "label": "Milan", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lombards", "label": "Lombards", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "po-valley", "label": "Po Valley", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "adriatic-sea", "label": "Adriatic Sea", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -233, "year_label": "234 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Corsica, Sardinia and Liguria rebel unsuccessfully against Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1218450136#Roman_Republic", "title": "234 BC", "revid": 1218450136, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -218, "year_label": "219 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Romans extend their area of domination around the head of the Adriatic Sea as far as the peninsula of Histria by the conquest of peoples who dwell to the east of the Veneti. Thus, with the exception of Liguria and the upper valley of the Po River, all Italy south of the Alps is brought within the Roman sphere.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325717539#Roman_Republic", "title": "219 BC", "revid": 1325717539, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -204, "year_label": "205 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "A Carthaginian army under Mago Barca lands in Liguria, capturing Genoa and Savona.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361853505#Roman_Republic", "title": "205 BC", "revid": 1361853505, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 374, "year_label": "374 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 7", "text": "December 7 – The people of Milan astonish Ambrosius, governor of Aemilia-Liguria, by acclaiming him bishop. He is the second son of the former praetorian prefect of Gaul, and becomes a creative thinker whose ideas will provide the paradigm for medieval church-state relations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1288884897#Religion", "title": "374", "revid": 1288884897, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 402, "year_label": "402 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Visigoths advance on Mediolanum (modern Milan) and besiege Asti in Liguria. King Alaric I sends envoys to negotiate a peace, but the Roman government refuses to make deals with \"barbarians.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326555519#Roman_Empire", "title": "402", "revid": 1326555519, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 410, "year_label": "410 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Constantine III crosses the Alps into Liguria (Northern Italy), but retreats to Gaul after Gerontius revolts in Spain against his son Constans II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367642022#Roman_Empire", "title": "410", "revid": 1367642022, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 460, "year_label": "460 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Majorian gathers an expeditionary force (Alans and other barbarians) in Liguria, and enters Aquitaine after a long march, where he visits King Theodoric II at Toulouse.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598361#Roman_Empire", "title": "460", "revid": 1360598361, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 490, "year_label": "490 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Summer – The Burgundians, under King Gundobad, cross the Alps and plunder Liguria. Many Romans are taken into captivity.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755224#Europe", "title": "490", "revid": 1364755224, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 538, "year_label": "538 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April", "text": "April – Belisarius secures Liguria, Mediolanum (modern Milan) and Ariminum, but disagreements, especially with Narses, leads to disunity in the Byzantine army.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351200776#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "538", "revid": 1351200776, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 540, "year_label": "540 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Ildibad succeeds Vitiges as king of the Ostrogoths, and installs his nephew Totila as commander of the Gothic army. He recaptures Venetia and Liguria in Northern Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367291057#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "540", "revid": 1367291057, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 641, "year_label": "641 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Lombards under King Rothari conquer Genoa (Liguria), and all remaining Byzantine territories in the lower Po Valley, including Oderzo (Opitergium).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364764166#Europe", "title": "641", "revid": 1364764166, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 935, "year_label": "935 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Fatimid caliph al-Qa'im dispatches a naval expedition under Ya'qub ibn Ishaq al-Tamimi to raid the coast of Provence and Liguria, sacking Genoa on 16 August and attacking Pisa. Ya'qub also raids Corsica and Sardinia before returning to Mahdia with some 8,000 prisoners.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468168#Europe", "title": "935", "revid": 1364468168, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 954, "year_label": "954 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Seborga (modern-day Liguria) comes under the jurisdiction of the Benedictine monks of Santo Onorato of Lérins.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360671354#Religion", "title": "954", "revid": 1360671354, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 962, "year_label": "962 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Otto I makes Oberto I, a margrave of the Obertenghi family, count palatine (a position second only to his own). He is granted the March of Obertenga (Eastern Liguria) and establishes his capital in Genoa. Oberto also receives the possessions of the Abbey of Bobbio (famous for its scriptorium).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341513175#Europe", "title": "962", "revid": 1341513175, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 964, "year_label": "964 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Otto I proceeds on campaign in Italy, remaining in the environs of Lucca. In the fall he leaves plague-wracked Tuscany, and is forced to retreat to Liguria. His rearguard is attacked by Adalbert II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353633013#Europe", "title": "964", "revid": 1353633013, "section": "Events › Europe"}}, {"year": 975, "year_label": "975 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 15", "text": "October 15 – Oberto I (Obizzo), an Italian count palatine, dies. The Marca Obertenga (Eastern Liguria) is divided among the Obertenghi family.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341513424#Europe", "title": "975", "revid": 1341513424, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1097, "year_label": "1097 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20 – Albert Azzo II, margrave of Milan and Liguria", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365268080#Deaths", "title": "1097", "revid": 1365268080, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1146, "year_label": "1146 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Republic of Genoa reaches a commercial agreement with Ramon Berenguer IV, count of Barcelona, granting privileges to merchants of both nations in the Catalan and Ligurian ports.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369184470#Europe", "title": "1146", "revid": 1369184470, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1809, "year_label": "1809 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 6", "text": "July 6 – French troops arrest Pope Pius VII, and take him to Liguria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349276571#July–September", "title": "1809", "revid": 1349276571, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}