{"slug": "savannah-georgia", "label": "Savannah, Georgia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savannah%2C_Georgia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83813", "qid": "Q83813", "description": "city in and county seat of Chatham County, Georgia, United States", "entries": 15, "years": 15, "span": [1733, 1912], "span_label": ["1733 CE", "1912 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "georgia-u-s-state", "label": "Georgia (U.S. state)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "john-wesley", "label": "John Wesley", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "american-revolutionary-war", "label": "American Revolutionary War", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "liverpool", "label": "Liverpool", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-states-declaration-of-independence", "label": "United States Declaration of Independence", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charleston-south-carolina", "label": "Charleston, South Carolina", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "confederate-states-of-america", "label": "Confederate States of America", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1733, "year_label": "1733 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "February 12", "text": "February 12 – British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358761924#January–March", "title": "1733", "revid": 1358761924, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1735, "year_label": "1735 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14 – John Wesley and his brother Charles set sail from England for Savannah in the Province of Georgia in British America; on the voyage they first encounter members of the Moravian Church.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365121192#October_–December", "title": "1735", "revid": 1365121192, "section": "Events › October –December"}}, {"year": 1737, "year_label": "1737 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December", "text": "December – John Wesley leaves Savannah, Georgia, and returns to England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367176390#October–December", "title": "1737", "revid": 1367176390, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1740, "year_label": "1740 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "March 25", "text": "March 25 – Construction begins on Bethesda Orphanage for boys near Savannah, Georgia, founded by George Whitefield.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362733434#January–March", "title": "1740", "revid": 1362733434, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1749, "year_label": "1749 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 7", "text": "August 7 – Mary Musgrove Bosomworth, a woman of mixed British and Creek Indian ancestry, presents herself as Coosaponakeesa, Queen of the Creek Indians and marches with 200 Creek Indians into the town of Savannah, Georgia. During her confrontation with British colonial authorities, she and her husband Thomas Bosomworth demand payment of \"nearly twenty-five thousand dollars\" in compensation for property taken from the Creek Indians, before the British authorities determine that she doesn't have the authority to speak for the tribe.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360727483#July–September", "title": "1749", "revid": 1360727483, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1751, "year_label": "1751 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 13", "text": "January 13 – For the first time, the American colony in Georgia has an elected legislature after having been administered by a corporate Board of Trustees since its founding in 1732. The original Georgia Assembly meets in Savannah with 16 representatives as the colony prepares to become a British colonial province. After electing Francis Harris as the Speaker of the unicameral Assembly, the delegates successfully ask the Trustees not to surrender control of Georgia to the neighboring Province of South Carolina.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351037611#January–March", "title": "1751", "revid": 1351037611, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1766, "year_label": "1766 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 9", "text": "April 9 – African slaves are imported directly into the American colony of Georgia for the first time, as the sloop Mary Brow arrives in Savannah with 78 captives imported from Saint-Louis, Senegal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358061260#April–June", "title": "1766", "revid": 1358061260, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1777, "year_label": "1777 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 16", "text": "May 16 – Gwinnett–McIntosh duel: Lachlan McIntosh and Button Gwinnett shoot each other during a duel near Savannah, Georgia. Gwinnett, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, dies three days later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349829024#April–June", "title": "1777", "revid": 1349829024, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1778, "year_label": "1778 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 29", "text": "December 29 – American Revolutionary War: Capture of Savannah – British forces under Archibald Campbell take the city of Savannah, Georgia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371073991#October–December", "title": "1778", "revid": 1371073991, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1785, "year_label": "1785 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 27", "text": "January 27 – The University of Georgia in the United States is chartered by the Georgia General Assembly meeting in Savannah. The first students are admitted in Athens, Georgia in 1801.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370566385#January–March", "title": "1785", "revid": 1370566385, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1819, "year_label": "1819 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 22", "text": "May 22 – The leaves port at Savannah, Georgia, on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean. The ship arrives at Liverpool, England, nearly a month later, on June 20, although only a fraction of the trip is made under steam.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355822452#April–June", "title": "1819", "revid": 1355822452, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1857, "year_label": "1857 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 3", "text": "March 3 – The largest slave auction in U.S. history is held, dubbed The Weeping Time. Over a 2-day period (starting March 2), Pierce M. Butler sells 436 men, women, children, and infants, all of whom are kept in stalls meant for horses at a racetrack in Savannah, Georgia, for weeks beforehand.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366379985#January–March", "title": "1857", "revid": 1366379985, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1861, "year_label": "1861 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 21", "text": "March 21 – Alexander Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, gives the infamous Cornerstone Speech in Savannah, Georgia, in which he declares that slavery is the natural condition of blacks, and the foundation of the Confederacy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368946725#March", "title": "1861", "revid": 1368946725, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "August 27", "text": "August 27 – The Sea Islands hurricane hits Savannah, Georgia, Charleston, South Carolina, and the Sea Islands, killing 1,000–2,000.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369946190#August", "title": "1893", "revid": 1369946190, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1912, "year_label": "1912 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 12", "text": "March 12 – The Girl Scouts of the USA is founded by Juliette Gordon Low, in Savannah, Georgia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503730#March", "title": "1912", "revid": 1373503730, "section": "Events › March"}}]}