{"slug": "lugdunum", "label": "Lugdunum", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lugdunum", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q665", "qid": "Q665", "description": "ancient Roman city on the site of modern Lyon, France", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [-42, 458], "span_label": ["43 BCE", "458 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "lyon", "label": "Lyon", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "septimius-severus", "label": "Septimius Severus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bagaudae", "label": "Bagaudae", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "france", "label": "France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-usurper", "label": "Roman usurper", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pannonia", "label": "Pannonia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "africa-roman-province", "label": "Africa (Roman province)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gratian", "label": "Gratian", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "valentinian-ii", "label": "Valentinian II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "justina-empress", "label": "Justina (empress)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "julia-domna", "label": "Julia Domna", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -42, "year_label": "43 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon) is founded.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1338224737#Gaul", "title": "43 BC", "revid": 1338224737, "section": "Events › By place › Gaul"}}, {"year": 187, "year_label": "187 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Septimius Severus marries Julia Domna (age 17), a Syrian princess, at Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon). She is the youngest daughter of high-priest Julius Bassianus – a descendant of the Royal House of Emesa. Her elder sister is Julia Maesa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371308954#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 187", "revid": 1371308954, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 197, "year_label": "197 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 19", "text": "February 19 – Battle of Lugdunum: Emperor Septimius Severus defeats the self-proclaimed emperor Clodius Albinus at Lugdunum (modern Lyon). Albinus commits suicide; legionaries sack the town.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371314350#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 197", "revid": 1371314350, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 280, "year_label": "280 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Roman usurper Proculus starts a rebellion at Lugdunum (Lyon, France), and proclaims himself emperor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367495474#Roman_Empire", "title": "280", "revid": 1367495474, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 383, "year_label": "383 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 25", "text": "August 25 – Emperor Gratian, age 24, is assassinated at Lugdunum (modern-day Lyon), leaving a young widow Laeta. Pannonia and Africa maintain their allegiance to co-emperor Valentinian II, now 12, whose mother, Justina, rules in his name.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349205021#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 383", "revid": 1349205021, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 458, "year_label": "458 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Winter – Majorian enters the Rhone Valley, and defeats the Burgundians under King Gondioc at Lugdunum. He forces the Bagaudae to join the western coalition against the Suebi in Spain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364748114#Roman_Empire", "title": "458", "revid": 1364748114, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}]}