{"slug": "pompeii", "label": "Pompeii", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pompeii", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q43332", "qid": "Q43332", "description": "ancient Roman city near modern Naples, Italy", "entries": 12, "years": 11, "span": [-599, 1748], "span_label": ["600 BCE", "1748 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "mount-vesuvius", "label": "Mount Vesuvius", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "roman-republic", "label": "Roman Republic", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "campania", "label": "Campania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-navy", "label": "Roman navy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ad-79", "label": "AD 79", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -599, "year_label": "600 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Pompeii is founded. (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372139014#Western_Europe", "title": "600 BC", "revid": 1372139014, "section": "Events › By place › Western Europe"}}, {"year": -88, "year_label": "89 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Pompeii is annexed by the Roman Republic.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369865499#Roman_Republic", "title": "89 BC", "revid": 1369865499, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -79, "year_label": "80 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Pompeii becomes the Roman colony Colonia Cornelia Veneria Pompei when Sulla occupies the city with at least 4,000 soldier-colonizers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1266100545#Roman_Republic", "title": "80 BC", "revid": 1266100545, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -49, "year_label": "50 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Initiation Rites of the Cult of Bacchus, detail of a wall painting in the Villa of the Mysteries, Pompeii, is made (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348690720#Roman_Republic", "title": "50 BC", "revid": 1348690720, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 59, "year_label": "59 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Rioting breaks out between the people of Pompeii and the people of Nuceria during a gladiator fight in Pompeii. Thousands are killed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373339620#Roman_Empire", "title": "50s", "revid": 1373339620, "section": "Events › 59 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 60, "year_label": "60 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "AD 60–79 – House of the Vettii, Pompeii, is rebuilt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372200754#Art_and_science", "title": "AD 60", "revid": 1372200754, "section": "Events › By topic › Art and science"}}, {"year": 62, "year_label": "62 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "A great earthquake damages cities in Campania, including Pompeii (February 5).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363561412#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 62", "revid": 1363561412, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 62, "year_label": "62 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Lucius Caecilius Iucundus, Roman banker from Pompeii (b. c. AD 14)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363561412#Deaths", "title": "AD 62", "revid": 1363561412, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 63, "year_label": "63 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "Pompeii, the city at the foot of Mount Vesuvius, builds a new monumental forum, after the town is heavily damaged by a strong earthquake.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330182489#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 63", "revid": 1330182489, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 79, "year_label": "79 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 24", "text": "August 24 or c. October 24 – Eruption of Mount Vesuvius: Mount Vesuvius erupts, destroying Pompeii, Herculaneum, Stabiae and Oplontis. The Roman navy (based at Misenum), commanded by Pliny the Elder, evacuates refugees. Pliny dies after inhaling volcanic fumes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371506261#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 79", "revid": 1371506261, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 1631, "year_label": "1631 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "December 16", "text": "December 16 – A volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius at Pompeii occurs, for the first time in several centuries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1356869091#October–December", "title": "1631", "revid": 1356869091, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1748, "year_label": "1748 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The ruins of Pompeii are rediscovered.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361284371#Date_unknown", "title": "1748", "revid": 1361284371, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}]}