{"slug": "ottawa", "label": "Ottawa", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottawa", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1930", "qid": "Q1930", "description": "capital city of Canada", "entries": 10, "years": 9, "span": [1855, 2012], "span_label": ["1855 CE", "2012 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 7}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ontario", "label": "Ontario", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "queen-victoria", "label": "Queen Victoria", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tehran", "label": "Tehran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "quebec", "label": "Quebec", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nova-scotia", "label": "Nova Scotia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-brunswick", "label": "New Brunswick", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nato", "label": "NATO", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mikhail-gorbachev", "label": "Mikhail Gorbachev", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1855, "year_label": "1855 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – Ottawa, Ontario, is incorporated as a city.'", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358982600#January–March", "title": "1855", "revid": 1358982600, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1857, "year_label": "1857 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 31", "text": "December 31 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa as the capital of Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366379985#October–December", "title": "1857", "revid": 1366379985, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1858, "year_label": "1858 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Queen Victoria announces her choice of Ottawa as capital of the Province of Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371625769#January–March", "title": "1858", "revid": 1371625769, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1866, "year_label": "1866 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 8", "text": "June 8 – The Parliament of Canada meets for the first time in Ottawa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368829327#June", "title": "1866", "revid": 1368829327, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1867, "year_label": "1867 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 – The British North America Act receives royal assent, forming the Dominion of Canada, in an event known as the Confederation. This unites the Province of Canada (Quebec and Ontario), New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia on July 1. Ottawa will become the capital.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365231456#March", "title": "1867", "revid": 1365231456, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1951, "year_label": "1951 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 30", "text": "September 30 – Charlotte Whitton becomes mayor of Ottawa and Canada's first woman mayor of a major city.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368856437#September", "title": "1951", "revid": 1368856437, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 12", "text": "February 12 – Representatives of NATO and the Warsaw Pact meet in Ottawa for an \"Open Skies\" conference. The conference results in agreements about superpower troop levels in Europe and on German reunification.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#February", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "May 29", "text": "May 29 – Mikhail Gorbachev arrives in Ottawa for a 29-hour visit.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#May", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1997, "year_label": "1997 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 3", "text": "December 3 – In Ottawa (Canada) representatives from 121 countries sign a treaty prohibiting the manufacture and deployment of anti-personnel land mines. However, the United States, the People's Republic of China, Russia, South Korea and 32 other nations do not ratify the treaty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367978156#December", "title": "1997", "revid": 1367978156, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 2012, "year_label": "2012 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 7", "text": "September 7 – Canada officially cuts diplomatic ties with Iran by closing its embassy in Tehran, and orders the expulsion of Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, over support for Syria, nuclear plans and human rights abuses.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373434549#September", "title": "2012", "revid": 1373434549, "section": "Events › September"}}]}