{"slug": "lincolnshire", "label": "Lincolnshire", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lincolnshire", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23090", "qid": "Q23090", "description": "ceremonial county in the east of England", "entries": 14, "years": 14, "span": [245, 1666], "span_label": ["245 CE", "1666 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "mercia", "label": "Mercia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-england", "label": "Kingdom of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "henry-i-of-england", "label": "Henry I of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "yorkshire", "label": "Yorkshire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "empress-matilda", "label": "Empress Matilda", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "david-i-of-scotland", "label": "David I of Scotland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "carlisle", "label": "Carlisle", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ecgfrith-of-northumbria", "label": "Ecgfrith of Northumbria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thelred-of-mercia", "label": "Æthelred of Mercia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-britain", "label": "Roman Britain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kent", "label": "Kent", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "essex", "label": "Essex", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 245, "year_label": "245 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "In Britain, many thousands of acres of modern-day Lincolnshire are inundated by a great flood.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371186932#Roman_Empire", "title": "245", "revid": 1371186932, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 674, "year_label": "674 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Ecgfrith of Northumbria defeats a coalition led by the Mercians. He annexes the region of Lindsey (Lincolnshire).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352002710#Britain", "title": "674", "revid": 1352002710, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 697, "year_label": "697 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Queen Osthryth of Mercia is murdered by her own noblemen. She is buried at Bardney Abbey (Lincolnshire), and later revered as a saint.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361010652#Britain", "title": "697", "revid": 1361010652, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 704, "year_label": "704 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Æthelred I abdicates the throne after a 30-year reign and becomes an abbot at Bardney (Lincolnshire). He is succeeded by his nephew Cenred (Coenred), a son of the late king Wulfhere, who becomes ruler of Mercia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468074#Britain", "title": "704", "revid": 1364468074, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 872, "year_label": "872 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Danes, led by Halfdan and Guthrum, establish a winter quarter at Torksey in the Kingdom of Lindsey (now part of Lincolnshire). King Burgred pays tribute (Danegeld) in return for 'peace'.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267071842#Britain", "title": "872", "revid": 1267071842, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 943, "year_label": "943 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The Trinity Bridge at Crowland, Lincolnshire is described, in the 'Charter of Eadred'.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364916983#England", "title": "943", "revid": 1364916983, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1138, "year_label": "1138 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 22", "text": "August 22 – Battle of the Standard: King David I of Scotland gives his full support to Matilda (daughter of the late King Henry I), and invades the north of England – travelling as far south as Lincolnshire. The Scottish army (some 15,000 men) is defeated by English forces under Earl William le Gros in Yorkshire. David retreats to Carlisle and reassembles an army.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366421724#Britain", "title": "1138", "revid": 1366421724, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1430, "year_label": "1430 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 14", "text": "June 14 – William Waynflete becomes vicar of Skendleby, Lincolnshire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561329#April–June", "title": "1430", "revid": 1369561329, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1536, "year_label": "1536 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 1", "text": "October 1 – The Pilgrimage of Grace, a rebellion in England against Henry VIII's church reforms, begins in Lincolnshire and spreads across the kingdom to most of Yorkshire, and parts of Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland and Westmorland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366494676#October–December", "title": "1536", "revid": 1366494676, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1571, "year_label": "1571 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 25", "text": "June 25 – Queen Elizabeth's Grammar School, Horncastle, is founded in Lincolnshire, England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369367955#April–June", "title": "1571", "revid": 1369367955, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1625, "year_label": "1625 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "In England, a very high tide occurs, the highest ever known in the Thames, and the sea walls in Kent, Essex, and Lincolnshire are overthrown, thus great desolation is caused to the lands near the sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363597525#Date_unknown", "title": "1625", "revid": 1363597525, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1645, "year_label": "1645 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 11", "text": "October 11 – English Civil War: Re-fortification of Bourne Castle in Lincolnshire against a threatened Royalist attack begins.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370309626#October–December", "title": "1645", "revid": 1370309626, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1665, "year_label": "1665 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "August 8", "text": "August 8 – The Great Plague forces the closure of the University of Cambridge, where Isaac Newton is a student. Newton retires to his home in Lincolnshire for safety, and stays there for two years. During this time alone, Newton will make groundbreaking discoveries in mathematics, calculus, mechanics and optics, and lay the foundations for his books Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica and Optiks.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988545#July–September", "title": "1665", "revid": 1365988545, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1666, "year_label": "1666 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "October 23", "text": "October 23 – The most intense tornado on record in English history, an F4 storm on the Fujita scale or T8 on the TORRO scale, strikes the county of Lincolnshire with a path of destruction through the villages of Welbourn, Wellingore, Navenby and Boothby Graffoe, with winds of more than 213 mph.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365988943#October–December", "title": "1666", "revid": 1365988943, "section": "Events › October–December"}}]}