{"slug": "perpignan", "label": "Perpignan", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perpignan", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6730", "qid": "Q6730", "description": "French commune in Pyrénées-Orientales, Occitania", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1196, 1475], "span_label": ["1196 CE", "1475 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "kingdom-of-france", "label": "Kingdom of France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "john-ii-of-aragon", "label": "John II of Aragon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "provence", "label": "Provence", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "genoa", "label": "Genoa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pyrenees", "label": "Pyrenees", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "peter-iii-of-aragon", "label": "Peter III of Aragon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "teutonic-knights", "label": "Teutonic Knights", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1196, "year_label": "1196 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 25", "text": "April 25 – King Alfonso II of Aragon (\"the Chaste\") dies after a 32-year reign at Perpignan. He leaves a will that divides his realm (Aragon loses Provence) and is succeeded by his 21-year-old son Peter II (the Catholic).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362484493#Europe", "title": "1196", "revid": 1362484493, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1285, "year_label": "1285 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 1", "text": "October 1 – Battle of the Col de Panissars: Aragonese forces under King Peter III (the Great) ambush and defeat a French expeditionary army while it was retreating over the Pyrenees. The French troops are massacred by the Aragonese vanguard at the Panissar Pass, but spared the royal family. Philip III (the Bold) arrives with his fatigued remnants in Perpignan, where he dies of dysentery on October 5.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359686470#Europe", "title": "1285", "revid": 1359686470, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1324, "year_label": "1324 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 11", "text": "September 11 – When the body of King Sancho of Majorca arrives in the French city of Perpignan for interment at the Perpignan Cathedral, a mob attacks the funeral procession and steals valuables that had accompanied the corpse.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1303312513#July_–_September", "title": "1324", "revid": 1303312513, "section": "Events › July – September"}}, {"year": 1408, "year_label": "1408 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 – After receiving the news that France will no longer support his Avignon Obedience, the Antipope Benedict XIII issues the Bull Celestis altitudo, summoning the a council to meet on November 1 at the French city of Perpignan, and then flees from the French-controlled Italian region of Genoa to avoid arrest.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360565942#April–June", "title": "1408", "revid": 1360565942, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1415, "year_label": "1415 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 18", "text": "July 18 – Sigismund, King of the Romans, departs from the meeting of the Council of Constance on a special trip to Perpignan, in order to secure the resignation of the antipope Benedict XIII in order to end the Western Schism, and then to try to end the wars between France and England, and Poland and the Teutonic Knights.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371593286#July–September", "title": "1415", "revid": 1371593286, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1475, "year_label": "1475 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 10", "text": "March 10 – The city of Perpignan is recaptured by the army of the Kingdom of France after having been captured by the Spanish king John II of Aragon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369334832#January–March", "title": "1475", "revid": 1369334832, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}