{"slug": "nantucket", "label": "Nantucket", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nantucket", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49149", "qid": "Q49149", "description": "island of Massachusetts, United States", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1676, 1999], "span_label": ["1676 CE", "1999 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}], "also_known_as": ["Nantucket Island", "Nantucket, Massachusetts"], "related": [{"slug": "cairo", "label": "Cairo", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "massachusetts", "label": "Massachusetts", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "human-cannibalism", "label": "Human cannibalism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "white-star-line", "label": "White Star Line", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1676, "year_label": "1676 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 16", "text": "November 16 – A prison is founded on Nantucket Island, in the English colony of Massachusetts.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992596#October–December", "title": "1676", "revid": 1365992596, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1820, "year_label": "1820 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "November 20", "text": "November 20 – After the sinking of the American whaleship Essex of Nantucket, by a sperm whale in the southern Pacific Ocean, the survivors are left afloat in three small whaleboats. They eventually resort, by common consent, to cannibalism to allow some to survive.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368795492#October–December", "title": "1820", "revid": 1368795492, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1841, "year_label": "1841 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 11", "text": "August 11 – Frederick Douglass speaks in front of the Anti-Slavery Convention in Nantucket, Massachusetts.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360265400#July–September", "title": "1841", "revid": 1360265400, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1909, "year_label": "1909 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 24", "text": "January 24 – The White Star Line RMS Republic sinks the day after a collision with SS Florida off Nantucket. Almost all of the 1,500 passengers are rescued.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373420847#January–February", "title": "1909", "revid": 1373420847, "section": "Events › January–February"}}, {"year": 1956, "year_label": "1956 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – The Italian ocean liner SS Andrea Doria sinks after colliding with the Swedish ship SS Stockholm in heavy fog 72 km south of Nantucket island, killing 51.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022627#July", "title": "1956", "revid": 1370022627, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1999, "year_label": "1999 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 31", "text": "October 31 – EgyptAir Flight 990, travelling from New York City to Cairo, crashes off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusetts killing all 217 on board.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369767946#October", "title": "1999", "revid": 1369767946, "section": "Events › October"}}]}