{"slug": "new-guinea", "label": "New Guinea", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Guinea", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q40285", "qid": "Q40285", "description": "island in the Pacific Ocean", "entries": 7, "years": 6, "span": [1545, 1961], "span_label": ["1545 CE", "1961 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "vice-president-of-the-united-states", "label": "Vice President of the United States", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "governor-of-new-york", "label": "Governor of New York", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-south-wales", "label": "New South Wales", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "amelia-earhart", "label": "Amelia Earhart", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1545, "year_label": "1545 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 13", "text": "June 13 – Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez sets out to navigate the northern coast of New Guinea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366653612#April–June", "title": "1545", "revid": 1366653612, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1545, "year_label": "1545 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 20", "text": "June 20 – Spanish explorer Yñigo Ortiz de Retez arrives at a large island in the South Pacific Ocean. Stopping at the Mamberamo River, Ortiz claims the island for Spain and christens it \"Nueva Guinea\" after concluding that the natives resemble the people on the coast of the Guinea coast of West Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366653612#April–June", "title": "1545", "revid": 1366653612, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1770, "year_label": "1770 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 22", "text": "August 22 (August 23 by Cook's log) – First voyage of James Cook: Captain Cook determines that New Holland (Australia) is not contiguous with New Guinea, and claims the whole of its eastern coast for Great Britain, later naming it all New South Wales.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368310921#July–_September", "title": "1770", "revid": 1368310921, "section": "Events › July– September"}}, {"year": 1937, "year_label": "1937 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 2", "text": "July 2 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappear after taking off from New Guinea, during Earhart's attempt to become the first woman to fly around the world.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371759714#July", "title": "1937", "revid": 1371759714, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1942, "year_label": "1942 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 21", "text": "July 21 – WWII: The Japanese establish a beachhead on the north coast of New Guinea in the Buna-Gona area; a small Australian force begins a rearguard action on the Kokoda Track campaign.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372873908#July", "title": "1942", "revid": 1372873908, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 22", "text": "September 22–October 2 – WWII: Landing at Scarlet Beach on the Huon Peninsula of New Guinea by Allied forces, the first time Australian troops have made an opposed amphibious landing since the Gallipoli Campaign of 1915.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373526844#September", "title": "1943", "revid": 1373526844, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1961, "year_label": "1961 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "November 17", "text": "November 17 – Michael Rockefeller, son of Governor of New York and later Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, disappears in the jungles of New Guinea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372676854#November", "title": "1961", "revid": 1372676854, "section": "Events › November"}}]}