{"slug": "lower-saxony", "label": "Lower Saxony", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_Saxony", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1197", "qid": "Q1197", "description": "state in North-West of Germany", "entries": 13, "years": 13, "span": [718, 1656], "span_label": ["718 CE", "1656 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "germany", "label": "Germany", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "saxons", "label": "Saxons", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "october", "label": "October", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rhine", "label": "Rhine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "east-francia", "label": "East Francia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "military-alliance", "label": "Military alliance", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "worms-germany", "label": "Worms, Germany", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "weser", "label": "Weser", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sweyn-forkbeard", "label": "Sweyn Forkbeard", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "viking-age", "label": "Viking Age", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "wessex", "label": "Wessex", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 718, "year_label": "718 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Wessex-born missionary Boniface sets out for Frisia a second time. He travels to Rome, where Pope Gregory II sends him on a mission to convert the Saxons in Lower Saxony (modern-day Germany).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367661186#Religion", "title": "718", "revid": 1367661186, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 737, "year_label": "737 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Ongendus of the Danes reinforces the Danevirke fortifications in Schleswig-Holstein. He orders a palisade rampart built on the frontier of Saxony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340809689#Europe", "title": "AD 737", "revid": 1340809689, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 783, "year_label": "783 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "October", "text": "October – Charlemagne marries Fastrada, the 18-year-old daughter of a Frankish count named Rudolph, and makes her his queen at Worms. The probable reason behind the marriage is to solidify a Frankish alliance east of the Rhine, against the Saxons in Lower Saxony (modern Germany).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351342197#Europe", "title": "783", "revid": 1351342197, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 852, "year_label": "852 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Gandersheim Abbey in Lower Saxony (modern Germany) is founded by Duke Liudolf of Saxony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1287194271#Religion", "title": "852", "revid": 1287194271, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 937, "year_label": "937 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Winter – Gero succeeds his brother Siegfried after his death. King Otto I appoints him as count and margrave of a vast border region around Merseburg that abuts the Wends on the River Saale (Lower Saxony).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367668437#Europe", "title": "937", "revid": 1367668437, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 994, "year_label": "994 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 23", "text": "June 23 – Viking Age: Danish Viking raiders, (probably) under King Sweyn Forkbeard, plunder the city of Stade (Lower Saxony). Count Lothair Udo I is captured and killed, during the battle with the pirates.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350027284#Europe", "title": "994", "revid": 1350027284, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1150, "year_label": "1150 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The city of Rinteln is founded on the northern bank of the Weser River in Lower Saxony (modern Germany).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362164290#Europe", "title": "1150", "revid": 1362164290, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1284, "year_label": "1284 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The events giving rise to the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin take place in Lower Saxony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370723758#Europe", "title": "1284", "revid": 1370723758, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1315, "year_label": "1315 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Siegfried II, bishop of Hildesheim, provides Dassel in Lower Saxony, Germany with city rights.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332018303#Cities_and_towns", "title": "1315", "revid": 1332018303, "section": "By topic › Cities and towns"}}, {"year": 1318, "year_label": "1318 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 22", "text": "September 22 – Otto the Mild, becomes ruler over the Duchy of Brunswick-Lüneburg in Lower Saxony, after the death of his father Albert the Fat", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361981975#July_–_September", "title": "1318", "revid": 1361981975, "section": "Events › July – September"}}, {"year": 1371, "year_label": "1371 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 1", "text": "February 1 – War of the Lüneburg Succession: In what is now the state of Lower Saxony in north Germany, after the Duke of Brunswick, Magnus Torquatus, attempts to claim his inheritance to rule of the Principality of Lüneburg, residents of the town of Lüneburg destroy the ducal castle that had been owned by the late Prince Wilhelm, and Brunswick relocates his residence to the town of Celle.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370413855#January–March", "title": "1371", "revid": 1370413855, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1406, "year_label": "1406 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "May 22", "text": "May 22 – In Germany, troops under the command of Johann von Paderborn, Bishop of Hildesheim, use cannons to destroy the walls of Gebhardshagen Castle in Salzgitter in what is now Lower Saxony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357536622#April–June", "title": "1406", "revid": 1357536622, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1656, "year_label": "1656 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Physician Samuel Stockhausen of the metal mining town of Goslar, Lower Saxony publishes his Libellus de lithargyrii fumo noxio morbifico, ejusque metallico frequentiori morbo vulgò dicto die Hütten Katze oder Hütten Rauch (\"Treatise on the Noxious Fumes of Litharge, Diseases caused by them and Miners' Asthma\"), a pioneering study of occupational disease.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372048661#Undated", "title": "1656", "revid": 1372048661, "section": "Events › Undated"}}]}