{"slug": "mannheim", "label": "Mannheim", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannheim", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2119", "qid": "Q2119", "description": "city in Baden-Württemberg, Germany", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [1817, 1888], "span_label": ["1817 CE", "1888 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 6}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [], "items": [{"year": 1817, "year_label": "1817 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "June 12", "text": "June 12 – German inventor Karl Drais drives his dandy horse (\"Draisine\" or Laufmaschine), the earliest form of bicycle, in Mannheim.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360260504#April–June", "title": "1817", "revid": 1360260504, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1818, "year_label": "1818 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 12", "text": "January 12 – The Dandy horse (Laufmaschine bicycle) is patented by Karl Drais in Mannheim.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373165947#January–March", "title": "1818", "revid": 1373165947, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1819, "year_label": "1819 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 23", "text": "March 23 – In Mannheim, Duchy of Baden, German dramatist August von Kotzebue is assassinated by Karl Ludwig Sand.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355822452#January–March", "title": "1819", "revid": 1355822452, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1865, "year_label": "1865 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – German chemicals producer Badische Anilin- und Sodafabrik (BASF) is founded in Mannheim.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361545898#April", "title": "1865", "revid": 1361545898, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1865, "year_label": "1865 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "April 21", "text": "April 21 – German chemicals producer BASF moves its headquarters and factories from Mannheim, to the Hemshof District of Ludwigshafen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361545898#April", "title": "1865", "revid": 1361545898, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1885, "year_label": "1885 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Karl Benz produces the Benz Patent-Motorwagen in Mannheim (Germany), regarded as the first automobile (patented and publicly launched the following year).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366156062#Date_unknown", "title": "1885", "revid": 1366156062, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1888, "year_label": "1888 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "August 5", "text": "August 5 – Bertha Benz arrives in Pforzheim having driven 40 mi km from Mannheim in a car manufactured by her husband Carl Benz, thus completing the first \"long-distance\" drive in the history of the automobile.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372679419#August", "title": "1888", "revid": 1372679419, "section": "Events › August"}}]}