{"slug": "piracy", "label": "Piracy", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45393", "qid": "Q45393", "description": "act of robbery or criminality at sea", "entries": 10, "years": 10, "span": [-219, 896], "span_label": ["220 BCE", "896 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "saracen", "label": "Saracen", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "mediterranean-sea", "label": "Mediterranean Sea", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sardinia", "label": "Sardinia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "duchy-of-naples", "label": "Duchy of Naples", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "fortification", "label": "Fortification", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "al-andalus", "label": "Al-Andalus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-greece", "label": "Ancient Greece", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "illyria", "label": "Illyria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "peloponnesus", "label": "Peloponnesus", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -219, "year_label": "220 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Together with fellow Illyrian, Scerdilaidas, Demetrius of Pharos attacks Illyrian cities under Roman protection and leads a piratical squadron into Greek waters. They unsuccessfully attack Pylos, an Achaean town on the Messenian coast, in the Peloponnesus of Greece.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598324#Greece", "title": "220 BC", "revid": 1360598324, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -77, "year_label": "78 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The Senate sends Publius Servilius Vatia to Cilicia as governor, where he fights a successful campaign against the Piracy in southern Anatolia (Lycia, Pamphylia and Isauria), he is thereafter known by the agnomen Isauricus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209581221#Roman_Republic", "title": "78 BC", "revid": 1209581221, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -73, "year_label": "74 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Marcus Antonius (father of Mark Antony), a praetor, receives wide-ranging powers and considerable resources to fight the pirates in the Mediterranean Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373138869#Roman_Republic", "title": "74 BC", "revid": 1373138869, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -70, "year_label": "71 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Marcus Antonius is defeated by the Cretans, who have made an alliance with the pirates. He is compelled to concede a humiliating peace. Antonius dies in office the same year and is awarded, posthumously, with the cognomen Creticus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1212466388#Roman_Republic", "title": "71 BC", "revid": 1212466388, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -67, "year_label": "68 BCE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "Ostia, the harbour city of Ancient Rome, is sacked by pirates. The port is set on fire and the consular war fleet is destroyed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1295045889#Roman_Republic", "title": "68 BC", "revid": 1295045889, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 467, "year_label": "467 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Vandal War (461-468): King Genseric extends his pirate raids in the Mediterranean Sea; the Vandals sack and enslave the people living in Illyricum, the Peloponnese and other parts of Greece. Leo I joins forces with the Western Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360138919#Roman_Empire", "title": "467", "revid": 1360138919, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 711, "year_label": "711 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "After pirates plunder an Arab ship near the mouth of the Indus River (Pakistan), Umayyad Arabs under Muhammad ibn Qasim invade India with 10,000 men and 6,000 horses, establishing a sultanate in Sindh. Qasim sends expeditions to Surashtra, where he makes peaceful treaty settlements with the Rashtrakuta.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358403455#Asia", "title": "AD 711", "revid": 1358403455, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 849, "year_label": "849 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Battle of Ostia: A Saracen Arab fleet from Sardinia sets sail towards Rome. In response, Pope Leo IV forms a coalition of maritime Italian cities, including Naples, Amalfi and Gaeta, led by Admiral Caesar — which is assembled off the re-fortified port of Ostia — and repels the Saracen marauders. Their navy is scattered, resulting in many sunken vessels. Rome is saved from plunder and the expansion of the Aghlabids.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129155#Europe", "title": "849", "revid": 1341129155, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 889, "year_label": "889 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "A ship carrying about twenty Arab freebooters, from Pechina in Al-Andalus (modern Spain), sets anchor in the Gulf of Saint-Tropez in Provence. They establish a fortified base at Fraxinet (modern-day La Garde-Freinet). After raiding the surrounding area, the Muslim colony is bolstered by contingents of Saracen adventurers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129924#Europe", "title": "889", "revid": 1341129924, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 896, "year_label": "896 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "A Viking pirate army under Hastein (a son of Ragnar Lodbrok) ravages the Welsh kingdoms of Brycheiniog and Gwent (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346094345#Britain", "title": "896", "revid": 1346094345, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}]}