{"slug": "moravia", "label": "Moravia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moravia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43266", "qid": "Q43266", "description": "historical land in the Czech Republic", "entries": 19, "years": 19, "span": [40, 1939], "span_label": ["40 CE", "1939 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "pannonian-avars", "label": "Pannonian Avars", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "slovakia", "label": "Slovakia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "quadi", "label": "Quadi", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "silesia", "label": "Silesia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ottoman-empire", "label": "Ottoman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-hungary", "label": "Kingdom of Hungary", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jews", "label": "Jews", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "swabia", "label": "Swabia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rhineland", "label": "Rhineland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "franks", "label": "Franks", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "danube", "label": "Danube", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "elbe", "label": "Elbe", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 40, "year_label": "40 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Germanic Quadi tribe begins settling in present-day Moravia and Slovakia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_40", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 40"}}, {"year": 172, "year_label": "172 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Miracle in Moravia: As the Roman army is encircled by the Quadi under intense heat, a violent thunderstorm sweeps away the Quadi in a torrent of water and mud, and refreshes the parched legionaries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371303180#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 172", "revid": 1371303180, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 600, "year_label": "600 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Moravians gain independence, by holding off the attacks from the Avars and the Franks who try to invade.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751689#Europe", "title": "600", "revid": 1364751689, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 619, "year_label": "619 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Avars attack the outskirts of Constantinople. Numerous Slavic tribes rebel against Avar overlordship; they carve out their own sovereign territory in Moravia and Lower Austria (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340802932#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "619", "revid": 1340802932, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 623, "year_label": "623 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Samo, reputedly a Frankish merchant, is elected king of the Slavs in Moravia, Slovakia and Lower Austria. A string of victories over the Avars proves his utilitas (usefulness) to his subjects, and he secures the throne to establish his own kingdom, which stretches from the upper Elbe to the Danube.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364763007#Europe", "title": "623", "revid": 1364763007, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1029, "year_label": "1029 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Duke Bretislav I (Bohemian Achilles) of Bohemia of the Přemyslid Dynasty reconquers Moravia from Poland (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363085319#Europe", "title": "1029", "revid": 1363085319, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1082, "year_label": "1082 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 12", "text": "May 12 – Battle of Mailberg: Duke Vratislaus II of Bohemia invades Austria with an army of 8,000 men (supported by mercenaries from Moravia and Bavaria). He defeats the forces under Margrave Leopold II (\"the Fair\") near Mailberg. The northern region of Lower Austria is devastated from pillage and famine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267070113#Europe", "title": "1082", "revid": 1267070113, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1222, "year_label": "1222 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Ottokar I of Bohemia reunites Bohemia and Moravia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371224827#Europe", "title": "1222", "revid": 1371224827, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1310, "year_label": "1310 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 25", "text": "May 25 – Otto III, Duke of Carinthia, dies and is succeeded by his younger brother, King Henry of Bohemia, Margrave of Moravia and the nominal King of Poland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332018292#April_–_June", "title": "1310", "revid": 1332018292, "section": "Events › April – June"}}, {"year": 1411, "year_label": "1411 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 18", "text": "January 18 – Jobst of Moravia, ruler of Moravia, King of the Romans", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354941251#Deaths", "title": "1411", "revid": 1354941251, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1454, "year_label": "1454 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Isaac Zarfati sends a circular letter to Rhineland, Swabia, Moravia and Hungary, praising the happy conditions of the Jews under the crescent, in contrast to the \"great torture chamber\" under the cross, and urging them to come to the Ottoman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367365323#Date_unknown", "title": "1454", "revid": 1367365323, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1469, "year_label": "1469 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 3", "text": "May 3 – At Olomouc, Hungarian King Matyáš Korvín is elected by the Czech Catholic estates to be the King of Bohemia and his rule is accepted by the occupied regions of Moravia, Silesia and Lusatia, though the other Bohemian estates remain loyal to the Bohemian King Jiří z Poděbrad.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365666063#April–June", "title": "1469", "revid": 1365666063, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1478, "year_label": "1478 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1 – King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary accepts the draft of the Treaty of Brno with slight modifications regarding the division of the lands of the Bohemian crowned claimed by both Hungary and King Vladisalus II of Bohemia. Under the terms, Vladislaus II cedes Moravia, Silesia, and Lusatia to Corvinus, and both monarchs are permitted to refer to themselves as \"King of Bohemia\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359855585#July–September", "title": "1478", "revid": 1359855585, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1576, "year_label": "1576 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "December 20", "text": "December 20 – Saint John Sarkander, Moravian priest (d. 1620)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362635528#Births", "title": "1576", "revid": 1362635528, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1620, "year_label": "1620 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 17", "text": "March 17 – St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest (injuries caused by torturing) (b. 1576)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363705489#January–March", "title": "1620", "revid": 1363705489, "section": "Deaths › January–March"}}, {"year": 1722, "year_label": "1722 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "A small group of Bohemian Brethren (the \"Hidden Seed\") from northern Moravia are allowed to settle in a new village, Herrnhut, on the Berthelsdorf estate of the pietist Count Nicolaus Zinzendorf in Upper Lusatia (Saxony), forming the Herrnhuter Brüdergemeine, seed of the Moravian Church's renewal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365128046#Date_unknown", "title": "1722", "revid": 1365128046, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1838, "year_label": "1838 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "November 16", "text": "November 16 – Austria: Moravia opens the final section of Emperor Ferdinand Northern Railway (Rajhrad–Brno) for exhibition (preliminary) use.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360381946#October–December", "title": "1838", "revid": 1360381946, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1865, "year_label": "1865 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "February 8", "text": "February 8 & March 8 – Gregor Mendel reads his paper on Experiments on Plant Hybridization at two meetings of the Natural History Society of Brünn in Moravia, subsequently taken to be the origin of the theory of Mendelian inheritance.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361545898#February", "title": "1865", "revid": 1361545898, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1939, "year_label": "1939 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 15", "text": "March 15 – German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. The Ruthenian region of Czechoslovakia declares independence as Carpatho-Ukraine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372426050#March", "title": "1939", "revid": 1372426050, "section": "Events › March"}}]}