{"slug": "samos", "label": "Samos", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samos", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q156882", "qid": "Q156882", "description": "Greek island in Aegean Sea", "entries": 14, "years": 14, "span": [-600, 1125], "span_label": ["601 BCE", "1125 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 7}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "achaemenid-empire", "label": "Achaemenid Empire", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "chios", "label": "Chios", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "lesbos", "label": "Lesbos", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sparta", "label": "Sparta", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "miletus", "label": "Miletus", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "alcibiades", "label": "Alcibiades", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "republic-of-venice", "label": "Republic of Venice", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rhodes", "label": "Rhodes", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "republic-of-florence", "label": "Republic of Florence", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -600, "year_label": "601 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Approximate date of the foundation of Perinthus by settlers from Samos.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370510251#Events", "title": "601 BC", "revid": 1370510251, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": -515, "year_label": "516 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cleomenes I of Sparta receives an embassy from Maeandrius of Samos asking for help to expel the tyrant Syloson, a puppet of the Persian Empire, which is at the time subjugating the city-states of the eastern Aegean Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340379939#Greece", "title": "516 BC", "revid": 1340379939, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -514, "year_label": "515 BCE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Polycrates, son of Aeaces, the tyrant of Samos from c. 538 BC to 522 BC", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129116#Deaths", "title": "515 BC", "revid": 1350129116, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": -493, "year_label": "494 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Having successfully captured several of the revolting Greek city-states, the Persians under Artaphernes lay siege to Miletus. The decisive Battle of Lade is fought at the island of Lade, near Miletus' port. Although out-numbered, the Greek fleet appears to be winning the battle until the ships from Samos and Lesbos retreat. The sudden defection turns the tide of battle, and the remaining Greek fleet is completely destroyed. Miletus surrenders shortly thereafter, and the Ionian Revolt comes to an end.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362845788#Persian_empire", "title": "494 BC", "revid": 1362845788, "section": "Events › By place › Persian empire"}}, {"year": -439, "year_label": "440 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Samos, an autonomous member of the Delian League and one of Athens' principal allies with a substantial fleet of its own, quarrels with Miletus. Miletus, also a member of the Delian League, appeals to Athens for assistance. Pericles decides in favour of Miletus, so Samos revolts. Pericles then sails to Samos with a fleet to overthrow its oligarchic government and install a democratic one. Sparta threatens to interfere. However, at a congress of the Peloponnesian League, its members vote not to intervene on behalf of Samos against Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1242238578#Greece", "title": "440 BC", "revid": 1242238578, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -438, "year_label": "439 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "As a result of Persian assistance to Samos, it takes the Athenian army nine months to successfully complete its siege of Samos and force the Samians to surrender. Samos becomes a tributary of Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326570000#Greece", "title": "439 BC", "revid": 1326570000, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -407, "year_label": "408 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Alcibiades enters Athens in triumph after an absence of 7 years. He leads the religious procession from Athens to Eleusis, thus atoning for his alleged impiety in 415 BC when he was held to have joined in profaning the Sacred Mysteries. Alcibiades is appointed commander-in-chief with autocratic powers and leaves for Samos to rejoin his fleet.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1303241146#Greece", "title": "408 BC", "revid": 1303241146, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -405, "year_label": "406 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Alcibiades is replaced by a board of generals. Athens sends a member of the board, Admiral Conon, to relieve the siege of Mytilene. To defend Lesbos, Conon is forced to move his numerically inferior fleet from Samos to the Hekatonnesi islands near Methymna. When Callicratidas attacks him, Conon is forced back to Mytilene, where he is blockaded by Callicratidas' Spartan fleet.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350128825#Greece", "title": "406 BC", "revid": 1350128825, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -403, "year_label": "404 BCE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Lysander sails to Samos and conquers it for Sparta.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369378724#Greece", "title": "404 BC", "revid": 1369378724, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -340, "year_label": "341 BCE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Epicurus, Greek philosopher was born in Samos", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1210197654#Births", "title": "341 BC", "revid": 1210197654, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": -200, "year_label": "201 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Philip V of Macedon captures Samos and the Egyptian fleet stationed there. He then besieges Chios to the north.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1243551551#Greece", "title": "201 BC", "revid": 1243551551, "section": "Events › By place › Greece"}}, {"year": -31, "year_label": "32 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Final War of the Roman Republic: Mark Antony transfers his headquarters from Samos to Athens, where he assembles a fleet of 500 combat vessels and 300 transport ships, crewed by 150,000 men.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325920749#Roman_Republic", "title": "32 BC", "revid": 1325920749, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -30, "year_label": "31 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Winter – Octavian (32 years old) takes court at Samos. After his decisive victory at Actium he builds Nicopolis; the city is populated by Greeks from settlements further inland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371049882#Roman_Republic", "title": "31 BC", "revid": 1371049882, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"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"}}]}