{"slug": "mombasa", "label": "Mombasa", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mombasa", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q225641", "qid": "Q225641", "description": "city in Kenya", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1505, 2007], "span_label": ["1505 CE", "2007 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Mombassa"], "related": [{"slug": "kenya", "label": "Kenya", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ethiopia", "label": "Ethiopia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jesuits", "label": "Jesuits", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "oman", "label": "Oman", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1505, "year_label": "1505 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 16", "text": "August 16 – Almeida's fleet destroys the East African city of Mombassa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360582113#July–September", "title": "1505", "revid": 1360582113, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1634, "year_label": "1634 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Suspecting that Patriarch Afonso Mendes played a part in the Portuguese assault on Mombasa, Emperor Fasilides expels him and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353730997#Date_unknown", "title": "1634", "revid": 1353730997, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1698, "year_label": "1698 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 12", "text": "December 12 – Mombasa (referred to at the time as Fort Jesus, and now part of Kenya) falls under control of the Emirate of Oman, with Imam Sa'if ibn Sultan as the first Omani Governor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370144847#October–December", "title": "1698", "revid": 1370144847, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1896, "year_label": "1896 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "August 14", "text": "August 14 – The Uganda Railway Act, 1896, is approved in the United Kingdom, for construction of a railway in Africa from Mombasa to Lake Victoria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364785538#August", "title": "1896", "revid": 1364785538, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 2002, "year_label": "2002 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 28", "text": "November 28 – 2002 Mombasa attacks: Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya, but their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down an Arkia Israel Airlines charter flight with surface-to-air-missiles.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372652846#November", "title": "2002", "revid": 1372652846, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 2007, "year_label": "2007 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 27", "text": "December 27 – Riots erupt in Mombasa, Kenya, after Mwai Kibaki is declared the winner of the general election, triggering a political, economic, and humanitarian crisis that killed over 1,000 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370930640#December", "title": "2007", "revid": 1370930640, "section": "Events › December"}}]}