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It is now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372860055#Events", "title": "650 BC", "revid": 1372860055, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -407, "year_label": "408 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "In 408 BC, the three city-states of the island of Rhodes (Ialysos, Kamiros, Lindos) unite and create the homonymous city on the northernmost part of the island.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1303241146#Greece", "title": "408 BC", "revid": 1303241146, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -395, "year_label": "396 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Persians assemble a joint Phoenician, Cilician, and Cypriot fleet, under the command of the experienced Athenian admiral, Conon, and seize Rhodes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1306223289#Persian_Empire", "title": "396 BC", "revid": 1306223289, "section": "Events › By place › Persian Empire"}}, {"year": -393, "year_label": "394 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Athenian general Conon, the Persian satrap Pharnabazus and Evagoras, King of Salamis, win an overwhelming naval victory over the Spartans under Peisander in the Battle of Cnidus (near Rhodes). Following this victory, Conon and Pharnabazus sail along the coast of Ionia, expelling Spartan governors and garrisons from the cities, although they fail to reduce the Spartan bases at Abydos and Sestos. With the Spartan bid for building an empire crumbling, Persia gains mastery of the Aegean.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354172908#Greece", "title": "394 BC", "revid": 1354172908, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -388, "year_label": "389 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Athenian general, Thrasybulus, leads a force of triremes to levy tribute from cities around the Aegean and support Rhodes, where a democratic government is struggling against Sparta. On this campaign, Thrasybulus captures Byzantium, imposes a duty on ships passing through the Hellespont, and collects tribute from many of the Aegean Islands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292700126#Greece", "title": "389 BC", "revid": 1292700126, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -356, "year_label": "357 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Rhodes falls to the Persian satrap Mausolus of Halicarnassus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210250153#Persian_Empire", "title": "357 BC", "revid": 1210250153, "section": "Events › By place › Persian Empire"}}, {"year": -355, "year_label": "356 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Achaemenid King Artaxerxes III orders all the satraps (governors) of his empire to dismiss their mercenaries. The Athenians, who have originally approved their mercenaries' collaboration with Artabazus of Phrygia, order them to leave due to their fear of Achaemenid support for the rebellion of Chios, Rhodes, and Cos. Thebes follows suit and withdraws its mercenaries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343819365#Persian_Empire", "title": "356 BC", "revid": 1343819365, "section": "Events › By place › Persian Empire"}}, {"year": -355, "year_label": "356 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Social War begins between the Second Athenian League, led by Athens, and its revolting allies of Chios, Rhodes, and Kos as well as the independent state Byzantium. Mausolus, the tyrant of Caria, instigates the rebellion against the Athenian control of these states. The revolting allies ravage the islands of Lemnos and Imbros which are loyal to Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343819365#Greece", "title": "356 BC", "revid": 1343819365, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -353, "year_label": "354 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Athens recognises the independence of Chios, Kos and Rhodes and makes peace with Mausolus of Caria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1291610084#Greece", "title": "354 BC", "revid": 1291610084, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -339, "year_label": "340 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Rhodes falls to Persian forces.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1239354213#Persian_Empire", "title": "340 BC", "revid": 1239354213, "section": "Events › By place › Persian Empire"}}, {"year": -331, "year_label": "332 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Alexander founds the city of Alexandria near the western arm of the Nile on a site between the sea and Lake Mareotis, protected by the island of Pharos, and has the city laid out by the Rhodian architect Deinocrates.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1322067290#Macedonia", "title": "332 BC", "revid": 1322067290, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonia"}}, {"year": -329, "year_label": "330 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Following his defeat in the courts by Demosthenes, Aeschines leaves Athens for Rhodes, to teach rhetoric.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326554346#Macedonia", "title": "330 BC", "revid": 1326554346, "section": "Events › By place › Macedonia"}}, {"year": -279, "year_label": "280 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Rhodes, rising in prosperity, becomes head of an Island League and helps to keep the peace and freedom of the Greek islands in the Aegean Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1338748993#Greece", "title": "280 BC", "revid": 1338748993, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -225, "year_label": "226 BCE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "An earthquake destroys the city of Camirus and the Colossus of Rhodes on the island of Rhodes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360927548#Greece", "title": "226 BC", "revid": 1360927548, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -200, "year_label": "201 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Rhodes and its allies Pergamum, Cyzicus, and Byzantium combine their fleets and defeat Philip V in the Battle of Chios. His flagship is trapped and rammed by two enemy ships.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1243551551#Greece", "title": "201 BC", "revid": 1243551551, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -199, "year_label": "200 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Philip V of Macedon's fleet defeat the Rhodians at Lade. His forces then advance into Pergamum, plundering Pergamese territory and attacking cities in Caria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360771623#Greece", "title": "200 BC", "revid": 1360771623, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -193, "year_label": "194 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Philip V of Macedon, along with Rhodes, Pergamum, and the Achaean League, join Rome against Antiochus III.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368091897#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "194 BC", "revid": 1368091897, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -189, "year_label": "190 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Battle of the Eurymedon is fought between a Seleucid fleet and ships from Rhodes and Pergamum, who are allied with the Roman Republic. The Seleucids are led by the famous Carthaginian general Hannibal. The Rhodians and their allies are victorious and Hannibal's fleet is forced to flee.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342606670#Greece", "title": "190 BC", "revid": 1342606670, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -169, "year_label": "170 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Dionysios Thrax, a Hellenic grammarian who will live and work in Alexandria and later on Rhodes (d. 90 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1289094585#Births", "title": "170 BC", "revid": 1289094585, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -163, "year_label": "164 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Rhodes signs a treaty with Rome and becomes its ally.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1288884961#Roman_Republic", "title": "164 BC", "revid": 1288884961, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -119, "year_label": "120 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Hipparchus, Greek astronomer and mathematician, on Rhodes (approximate date) (b. c. 190 BC)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368395489#Deaths", "title": "120 BC", "revid": 1368395489, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -99, "year_label": "100 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Lucius Appuleius Saturninus, a tribune, passes a law to redistribute land to military veterans. The law requires that all senators swear to abide by it. Quintus Caecilus Metellus Numidicus refuses and is exiled. He goes to Rhodes to study philosophy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355643460#Roman_Republic", "title": "100 BC", "revid": 1355643460, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -78, "year_label": "79 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Cicero travels to Athens and then to Rhodes to continue his studies of philosophy and oratory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325704258#Roman_republic", "title": "79 BC", "revid": 1325704258, "section": "Events › By place › Roman republic"}}, {"year": -74, "year_label": "75 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Julius Caesar travels to Rhodes and is taken captive by pirates", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371365862#Roman_Republic", "title": "75 BC", "revid": 1371365862, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -74, "year_label": "75 BCE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Julius Caesar travels to Rhodes to study under Apollonius Molon. On his way across the Aegean Sea, he is kidnapped by Cilician pirates and held prisoner in the Dodecanese islet of Pharmacusa. The young Caesar is held for a ransom of twenty talents, but he insists they ask for fifty. After his release Caesar raises a fleet at Miletus, pursues and crucifies the pirates in Pergamon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371365862#Greece", "title": "75 BC", "revid": 1371365862, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -68, "year_label": "69 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Rhodes becomes a bulwark against pirates, the Rhodians are unable to suppress piracy in the Aegean Sea. Delos gets the status of a free port.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1225088492#Greece", "title": "69 BC", "revid": 1225088492, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -42, "year_label": "43 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Gaius Cassius captures Rhodes after they refuse to pay tribute. Their fleet is defeated by Roman galleys in the Aegean Sea. He lands a military force on the island and plunders the city. Cassius puts to death 50 of the leading citizens and seizes all the gold he can lay hands on.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1338224737#Roman_Republic", "title": "43 BC", "revid": 1338224737, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -41, "year_label": "42 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The confederation of Lycia sends ambassadors to Brutus, promising to form a military league and contribute money for building ships. Gaius Cassius Longinus occupies Rhodes, and orders all the other cities of Asia to pay a tribute for 10 years.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352172627#Roman_Republic", "title": "42 BC", "revid": 1352172627, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -5, "year_label": "6 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Tiberius retires to Rhodes, to the inconvenience of Emperor Augustus. He is recalled to Rome years later in AD 4, becoming Augustus' adopted son and heir following the deaths of Lucius and Gaius Caesar.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371257874#Roman_Empire", "title": "0s BC", "revid": 1371257874, "section": "Events › 6 BC › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 2, "year_label": "2 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "AD 2 – Following the death of Lucius Caesar, Augustus allows his stepson Tiberius back into Rome as a private citizen, after six years of enforced retirement on Rhodes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365712040#Roman_Empire", "title": "0s", "revid": 1365712040, "section": "Events › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 44, "year_label": "44 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Isle of Rhodes returns to the Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_44", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 44"}}, {"year": 141, "year_label": "141 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "The 141 Lycia earthquake affects most of the Roman provinces of Lycia and Caria and the islands of Rhodes, Kos, Simi and Serifos. It triggers a severe tsunami, which causes major inundation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371186469#Asia", "title": "AD 141", "revid": 1371186469, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 269, "year_label": "269 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Heruli capture Athens and raid the Aegean Islands as far as Crete and Rhodes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371227782#Roman_Empire", "title": "269", "revid": 1371227782, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 641, "year_label": "641 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "September", "text": "September – The Byzantine Senate turns against Martina and her son Heraklonas, who are both mutilated, and exiled to Rhodes. Supported by general Valentinus, Constantine's son Constans II, age 10, succeeds to the throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364764166#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "641", "revid": 1364764166, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 670, "year_label": "670 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Arab-Byzantine War: The Arab fleet dominates the Aegean Sea and conquers the strategic islands, Rhodes, Cos and Chios. The shore on the southern part of Sea of Marmara is taken, providing an excellent base at Cyzicus to begin the blockade of Constantinople by sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367634463#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "670", "revid": 1367634463, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 807, "year_label": "807 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "An Abbasid fleet under Humayd ibn Ma'yuf al-Hajuri raids the Peloponnese, Rhodes and Myra.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342124762#Abbasid_Empire_and_Byzantine_Empire", "title": "807", "revid": 1342124762, "section": "Events › By place › Abbasid Empire and Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1125, "year_label": "1125 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Republic of Venice pillages the islands of Rhodes, ravages Samos and Lesbos, and occupies Chios (controlled by the Byzantine Empire). The Republic of Florence sacks and conquers the neighboring independent republic of Fiesole in Italy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365270881#Europe", "title": "1125", "revid": 1365270881, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1249, "year_label": "1249 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May", "text": "May – Nicaean–Latin Wars: Latin forces led by William of Villehardouin, arrive on the island of Rhodes on their way to join the Seventh Crusade. This causes the Nicaeans to raise the siege of Rhodes. William concludes an agreement with the Genoese and leaves behind some 100 knights before departing for the Holy Land.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362150898#Europe", "title": "1249", "revid": 1362150898, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1306, "year_label": "1306 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 23", "text": "June 23 – The Knights Hospitaller, led by Grand Master Foulques de Villaret, land with 600 men on the island of Rhodes, one of the Dodecanese Islands off of the coast of Byzantium, and begin a four-year long war to capture the fortified city of Rhodes (which will not fall until August 15, 1310).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354973149#April_–_June", "title": "1306", "revid": 1354973149, "section": "Events › April – June"}}, {"year": 1306, "year_label": "1306 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 20", "text": "September 20 – The Knights Hospitaller, besieging on the island of Rhodes, capture the Feraklos Castle.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354973149#July_–_September", "title": "1306", "revid": 1354973149, "section": "Events › July – September"}}, {"year": 1307, "year_label": "1307 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 – Pope Clement V issues a papal bull confirming that the island of Rhodes, now one of the Dodecanese islands of Greece, will be the property of the Knights Hospitaller.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332007828#July_–_September", "title": "1307", "revid": 1332007828, "section": "Events › July – September"}}, {"year": 1309, "year_label": "1309 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 15", "text": "August 15 – Conquest of Rhodes: The Byzantine garrison of the city of Rhodes surrenders to the Crusader forces of the Knights Hospitaller under Grand Master Foulques de Villaret – completing their conquest of Rhodes. The knights establish their headquarters on the island and rename themselves as the Knights of Rhodes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359759809#July_–_September", "title": "1309", "revid": 1359759809, "section": "Events › July – September"}}, {"year": 1309, "year_label": "1309 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November 19", "text": "November 19 – Pope Clement V reverses the excommunication of Flemish hero Willem van Saeftinghe and grants him absolution, but requires him to join the Knights Hospitaller in their crusade at the island of Rhodes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359759809#October_–_December", "title": "1309", "revid": 1359759809, "section": "Events › October – December"}}, {"year": 1320, "year_label": "1320 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Rhodes: The Knights Hospitaller defeat an attempt by the Turks of Menteshe to capture Rhodes. During the battle, a Turkish invasion fleet (some 80 ships) is destroyed by a smaller Hospitaller-Genoese fleet.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353685641#Date_unknown", "title": "1320", "revid": 1353685641, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1377, "year_label": "1377 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 24", "text": "September 24 – The Spanish Aragonese knight Juan Fernández de Heredia becomes the new Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, who control the island of Rhodes, one of the Dodecanese islands of Greece and the island of Cyprus. Fernandez is elected by his fellow Knights to replace the late Grand Master Robert de Juilly, who had died on July 29.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368383535#July–September", "title": "1377", "revid": 1368383535, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1444, "year_label": "1444 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Forces of the Sultan of Egypt fail to take Rhodes from the Knights of Rhodes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359067554#Date_unknown", "title": "1444", "revid": 1359067554, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1481, "year_label": "1481 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March 15", "text": "March 15 – The first of a series of earthquakes to affect the island of Rhodes occurs, leading up to the deadly earthquake in May.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365936509#January–March", "title": "1481", "revid": 1365936509, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1481, "year_label": "1481 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "May 3", "text": "May 3 – The 1481 Rhodes earthquake, the largest of a series, strikes the island of Rhodes, causing an estimated 30,000 casualties.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365936509#April–June", "title": "1481", "revid": 1365936509, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1482, "year_label": "1482 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 29", "text": "July 29 – Cem Sultan of the Ottoman Empire flees to the island of Rhodes after having turned down two offers from his half-brother, Sultan Bayezid II, to give up all claims to the Ottoman throne.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368493356#July–September", "title": "1482", "revid": 1368493356, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1499, "year_label": "1499 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 10", "text": "June 10 – Pope Alexander VI informs the Roman Catholic cardinals that the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire has amassed a fleet of 300 ships to lay siege to the city of Rhodes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369343359#April–June", "title": "1499", "revid": 1369343359, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1522, "year_label": "1522 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 18", "text": "December 18 – The Ottomans finally break into Rhodes, but the Knights continue fierce resistance in the streets.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372799978#October–December", "title": "1522", "revid": 1372799978, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1522, "year_label": "1522 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 28", "text": "July 28 – Ottoman Sultan Suleiman I begins his siege to expel the Knights of St. John in Rhodes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372799978#July–September", "title": "1522", "revid": 1372799978, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1584, "year_label": "1584 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 22", "text": "February 22 – After being falsely accused of various charges, Jeremias II Tranos, leader of the Eastern Orthodox Church as Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, is deposed by his fellow bishops and exiled to the island of Rhodes. Jeremias is replaced by Pachomius II Patestos.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561067#January–March", "title": "1584", "revid": 1369561067, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1840, "year_label": "1840 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February", "text": "February – The Rhodes blood libel is made against the Jews of Rhodes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360387586#January–March", "title": "1840", "revid": 1360387586, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}