{"slug": "mozambique", "label": "Mozambique", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1029", "qid": "Q1029", "description": "country in Southeastern Africa; the current form of Mozambique since 1975", "entries": 16, "years": 15, "span": [900, 2022], "span_label": ["900 CE", "2022 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 3}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "madagascar", "label": "Madagascar", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "india", "label": "India", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "islam", "label": "Islam", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "africa", "label": "Africa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "portugal", "label": "Portugal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-nations", "label": "United Nations", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lisbon", "label": "Lisbon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "portuguese-people", "label": "Portuguese people", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dutch-east-india-company", "label": "Dutch East India Company", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cape-town", "label": "Cape Town", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tanzania", "label": "Tanzania", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 900, "year_label": "900 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The east coast of Africa is impacted by trade and Arab, Persian and Indian traders mix with the indigenous Bantu. Many of the coastal Bantu adopt Islam, reaching as far south as Sofala (Mozambique).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364042634#Commerce", "title": "900", "revid": 1364042634, "section": "Events › By topic › Commerce"}}, {"year": 1498, "year_label": "1498 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 2", "text": "March 2 – Vasco da Gama visits Quelimane and Mozambique, in southeastern Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363338704#January–March", "title": "1498", "revid": 1363338704, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1552, "year_label": "1552 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 24", "text": "June 24 – The Portuguese ship São João is wrecked off of the coast of South Africa. While 480 people survive initially, all but 25 of them die during the next 165 days while trying to reach the mouth of the Maputo River in what is now Mozambique.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364394581#April–June", "title": "1552", "revid": 1364394581, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1575, "year_label": "1575 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 22", "text": "November 22 – Portuguese navigator Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo departs from Mozambique on a mission for to map the coastline, completing the task on March 13.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362481402#October–December", "title": "1575", "revid": 1362481402, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1730, "year_label": "1730 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 27", "text": "December 27 – The Dutch East India Company ends an almost 11-year effort of trying to maintain a colony around Delagoa Bay in southern Africa in modern-day Mozambique. The entire population of the settlement, Fort Lydzammheid (near modern-day Maputo) is evacuated by the ships Snuffelaar, Zeepost and Feyenoord and the group returns to Cape Town.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560881#October–December", "title": "1730", "revid": 1369560881, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1895, "year_label": "1895 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "December 15", "text": "December 15 – The railways of the Cape of Good Hope, Colony of Natal, the Orange Free State, the South African Republic and southern Mozambique are all linked at Union Junction near Alberton.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364324653#December", "title": "1895", "revid": 1364324653, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1895, "year_label": "1895 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 11", "text": "June 11 – Britain annexes Tongaland, between Zululand and Mozambique.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364324653#June", "title": "1895", "revid": 1364324653, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1911, "year_label": "1911 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "April 18", "text": "April 18 – , a 5,557-ton Portuguese passenger liner en route from Mozambique to Lisbon, strikes Bellows Rock just off Cape Point and sinks.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373497014#April", "title": "1911", "revid": 1373497014, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1969, "year_label": "1969 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 3", "text": "February 3 – Eduardo Mondlane, leader of the Mozambique nationalist organization FRELIMO (b. 1920)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373164180#February", "title": "1969", "revid": 1373164180, "section": "Deaths › February"}}, {"year": 1975, "year_label": "1975 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 16", "text": "September 16 – Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369955775#September", "title": "1975", "revid": 1369955775, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1976, "year_label": "1976 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 9", "text": "August 9 – The Selous Scouts of the Rhodesian Army conduct a cross-border raid into Nyadzonya, Mozambique in Operation Eland, an action that led to severe political and diplomatic consequences on Rhodesia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372603253#August", "title": "1976", "revid": 1372603253, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1992, "year_label": "1992 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 4", "text": "October 4 – The government of Mozambique signs the Rome General Peace Accords with leaders of RENAMO, ending the 16-year-old Mozambican Civil War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368521010#October", "title": "1992", "revid": 1368521010, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2000, "year_label": "2000 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "February 9", "text": "February 9 – Torrential rains in Africa led to the worst flooding in Mozambique in 50 years, which lasts until March and kills 800 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371541477#February", "title": "2000", "revid": 1371541477, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 2016, "year_label": "2016 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1 – An annular solar eclipse was visible from Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373421880#September", "title": "2016", "revid": 1373421880, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2019, "year_label": "2019 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March 15", "text": "March 15 – Cyclone Idai makes landfall on Mozambique, causing at least 1,073 fatalities, as well as mass flooding and power outages in southern Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373255188#March", "title": "2019", "revid": 1373255188, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 23", "text": "January 23 – Tropical Storm Ana kills 115 people in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique, days after a series of floods killed 11 people in Madagascar.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#January", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › January"}}]}