{"slug": "rimini", "label": "Rimini", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rimini", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13369", "qid": "Q13369", "description": "Italian comune", "entries": 12, "years": 12, "span": [-267, 1528], "span_label": ["268 BCE", "1528 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "ravenna", "label": "Ravenna", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ostrogoths", "label": "Ostrogoths", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "huns", "label": "Huns", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "flavius-aetius", "label": "Flavius Aetius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dalmatia-roman-province", "label": "Dalmatia (Roman province)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "december", "label": "December", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "july", "label": "July", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arianism", "label": "Arianism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "constantius-ii", "label": "Constantius II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jerome", "label": "Jerome", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -267, "year_label": "268 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Romans found a colony at Ariminum.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369785417#Roman_Republic", "title": "268 BC", "revid": 1369785417, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -219, "year_label": "220 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "During his censorship, the Roman political leader, Gaius Flaminius, builds the Circus Flaminius on the Campus Martius and constructs the Via Flaminia from Rome to Ariminum (Rimini).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360598324#Roman_Republic", "title": "220 BC", "revid": 1360598324, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -186, "year_label": "187 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The construction of the Via Aemilia, a trunk road in the north Italian plains, running from Ariminum (Rimini), on the Adriatic coast, to Placentia (Piacenza) on the river Padus (Po), is completed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1223702100#Roman_Republic", "title": "187 BC", "revid": 1223702100, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 27, "year_label": "27 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "An Arc of Triumph is erected in Rimini, in honor of the former Emperor Augustus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369984933#Roman_Empire", "title": "20s", "revid": 1369984933, "section": "Events › 27 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 359, "year_label": "359 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July", "text": "July – Emperor Constantius II convenes the Council of Rimini, to resolve the crisis over Arianism in the Church. Some 400 bishops of the Western portion of the Roman Empire attend, while the Eastern bishops simultaneously hold a meeting at Seleucia. Given Saint Jerome's comment that, \"The whole world groaned in astonishment to find itself Arian\", it appears to have failed. Pope Liberius rejects the new creed at Rimini.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332409759#Religion", "title": "359", "revid": 1332409759, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 432, "year_label": "432 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Roman civil war: Roman forces under command of Flavius Aetius are defeated near Rimini (Italy) in battle. His rival comes Bonifacius is mortally wounded and dies several days later. Aetius flees to Dalmatia and seeks refuge with the Huns.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361576950#Roman_Empire", "title": "432", "revid": 1361576950, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 490, "year_label": "490 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Theodoric and his Ostrogoths lay siege to Ravenna. The cities of Cesena and Rimini retain their allegiance to Odoacer.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755224#Europe", "title": "490", "revid": 1364755224, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 492, "year_label": "492 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Theoderic the Great conquers Rimini, and brings his Ostrogoth fleet to blockade the harbours 6 miles from the capital of Ravenna. Important provisions, food and supplies are cut off, and the inhabitants are starved to death.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340790258#Europe", "title": "492", "revid": 1340790258, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 537, "year_label": "537 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December", "text": "December – Belisarius sends John \"the Sanguinary\" with a force of 2,000 men towards Picenum, to plunder the east coast of Italy. He arrives at Ariminum (Rimini), where he is welcomed by the local population.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370992976#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "537", "revid": 1370992976, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 538, "year_label": "538 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gothic War: Vitiges strengthens the garrisons of various towns and besieges Ariminum. Byzantine forces under the Armenian general Narses arrive at Picenum.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351200776#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "538", "revid": 1351200776, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 551, "year_label": "551 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Gothic War: Narses arrives in Venetia and discovers that a powerful Gothic-Frank army (50,000 men), under joint command of the kings Totila and Theudebald, has blocked the principal route to the Po Valley. Not wishing to engage such a formidable force and confident that the Franks would avoid a direct confrontation, Narses skirts the lagoons along the Adriatic shore, by using vessels to leapfrog his army from point to point along the coast. In this way he arrives at the capital Ravenna without encountering any opposition. He attacks and crushes a small Gothic force at Ariminum (modern Rimini).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362066549#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "551", "revid": 1362066549, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 1528, "year_label": "1528 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 17", "text": "June 17 – The Italian city of Rimini and its surrounding area, ruled by the House of Malatesta, is conquered by troops of the Papal States and subsequently annexed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369577446#April–June", "title": "1528", "revid": 1369577446, "section": "Events › April–June"}}]}