{"slug": "oscar-wilde", "label": "Oscar Wilde", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30875", "qid": "Q30875", "description": "Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [1854, 1900], "span_label": ["1854 CE", "1900 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [], "items": [{"year": 1854, "year_label": "1854 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "October 16", "text": "October 16 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362496011#October–December", "title": "1854", "revid": 1362496011, "section": "Births › October–December"}}, {"year": 1882, "year_label": "1882 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 2", "text": "January 2 – Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in New York at the beginning of a lecture tour of the United States and Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360586433#January", "title": "1882", "revid": 1360586433, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1890, "year_label": "1890 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 20", "text": "June 20 – The Picture of Dorian Gray (by Oscar Wilde) is published by Philadelphia-based Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (dated July).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364071388#June", "title": "1890", "revid": 1364071388, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1895, "year_label": "1895 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in London for \"gross indecency\", after losing a criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364324653#April", "title": "1895", "revid": 1364324653, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1895, "year_label": "1895 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 25", "text": "May 25 – R. v. Wilde: Oscar Wilde is convicted in London of \"unlawfully committing acts of gross indecency with certain male persons\" (under the Labouchere Amendment) and given a two years' sentence of hard labour, during which he will write De Profundis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364324653#May", "title": "1895", "revid": 1364324653, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1896, "year_label": "1896 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 11", "text": "February 11 – Oscar Wilde's play Salomé (1891) has its stage premiere (while Wilde is in prison) in its original French in Paris.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364785538#February", "title": "1896", "revid": 1364785538, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1897, "year_label": "1897 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 19", "text": "May 19 – Oscar Wilde is released from prison in England, and goes into voluntary exile on the continent.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362850810#May", "title": "1897", "revid": 1362850810, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1900, "year_label": "1900 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 30", "text": "November 30 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373317536#October–December", "title": "1900", "revid": 1373317536, "section": "Deaths › October–December"}}]}