{"slug": "siberia", "label": "Siberia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siberia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5428", "qid": "Q5428", "description": "geographical region of Russia comprising North Asia", "entries": 15, "years": 13, "span": [1250, 2020], "span_label": ["1250 CE", "2020 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "russian-empire", "label": "Russian Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "old-style-and-new-style-dates", "label": "Old Style and New Style dates", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "earth", "label": "Earth", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "soviet-union", "label": "Soviet Union", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "estonia", "label": "Estonia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lithuania", "label": "Lithuania", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "latvia", "label": "Latvia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "saint-petersburg", "label": "Saint Petersburg", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "joseph-stalin", "label": "Joseph Stalin", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "khan-title", "label": "Khan (title)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mongol-empire", "label": "Mongol Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mongke-khan", "label": "Möngke Khan", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1250, "year_label": "1250 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "A kurultai is called by Batu Khan in Siberia as part of maneuverings which will elect Möngke Khan as khan of the Mongol Empire in 1251.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360895476#Asia", "title": "1250", "revid": 1360895476, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1741, "year_label": "1741 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "December 19", "text": "December 19 – Vitus Bering dies during his expedition, east of Siberia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360183595#October–December", "title": "1741", "revid": 1360183595, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1741, "year_label": "1741 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 4", "text": "May 4 – Vitus Bering sets out from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to map the coasts of Siberia and Alaska.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360183595#April–June", "title": "1741", "revid": 1360183595, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1826, "year_label": "1826 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 (O.S.: July 13) – Five leaders of the Decembrist revolt of 1825 in Russia (Pyotr Kakhovsky, Pavel Pestel, poet Kondraty Ryleyev, Sergey Muravyov-Apostol and Mikhail Bestuzhev-Ryumin) are hanged in Senate Square, Saint Petersburg, where they had launched their attempted coup d'état. Other conspirators begin their journey into exile in Siberia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373386632#July–September", "title": "1826", "revid": 1373386632, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1849, "year_label": "1849 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "November 16", "text": "November 16 – A Russian court sentences Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group, the Petrashevsky Circle. Facing a firing squad on December 23, the group members are reprieved at the last moment, and exiled to the katorga prison camps in Siberia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362576929#October–December", "title": "1849", "revid": 1362576929, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1878, "year_label": "1878 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 22", "text": "June 22 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld leaves Karlskrona on a voyage that will make him the first man to navigate the Northern Sea Route, a shipping lane from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean, along the Siberian coast.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365252865#June", "title": "1878", "revid": 1365252865, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1908, "year_label": "1908 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "June 30", "text": "June 30 (June 17 OS) – The Tunguska event near the Podkamennaya Tunguska River in Krasnoyarsk Krai, Siberia, Russian Empire, is believed to have been caused by the air burst of a large meteoroid or comet fragment, at an altitude of 5 – 10 above the Earth's surface.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373410903#June", "title": "1908", "revid": 1373410903, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1912, "year_label": "1912 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 17", "text": "April 17 – Lena massacre: Russian troops kill or wound 500 striking gold miners in Siberia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503730#April", "title": "1912", "revid": 1373503730, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1913, "year_label": "1913 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 23", "text": "February 23 – Joseph Stalin is arrested by the Russian secret police, the Okhrana, in Petrograd, and exiled to Siberia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373505613#February", "title": "1913", "revid": 1373505613, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1914, "year_label": "1914 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 29", "text": "June 29 – Khioniya Guseva attempts and fails to assassinate Grigori Rasputin at his hometown in Siberia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518346#June", "title": "1914", "revid": 1373518346, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 28", "text": "August 28 – Japan agrees to withdraw its troops from Siberia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983934#August", "title": "1922", "revid": 1369983934, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1923, "year_label": "1923 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 16", "text": "June 16 – The storming of Ayan in Siberia concludes the Yakut Revolt and the Russian Civil War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367772921#May–June", "title": "1923", "revid": 1367772921, "section": "Events › May–June"}}, {"year": 1941, "year_label": "1941 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 14", "text": "June 14 – June deportation: Soviet officials deport about 65,000 people from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania to Siberia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372706275#June", "title": "1941", "revid": 1372706275, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 2020, "year_label": "2020 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "June 3", "text": "June 3 – Russian President Vladimir Putin declares a state of emergency after 20,000 tons of oil leaked into the Ambarnaya River near the Siberian city of Norilsk within the Arctic Circle on May 26, 2020. The World Wildlife Fund said the accident is believed to be the second-largest in modern Russian history.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371633312#June", "title": "2020", "revid": 1371633312, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 2020, "year_label": "2020 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "September 14", "text": "September 14 – The first discovery of the perfectly preserved remains of a cave bear, believed to be 22,000 to 39,500 years old (Late Pleistocene), is made in Lyakhovsky Islands, Siberia in the thawing permafrost.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371633312#September", "title": "2020", "revid": 1371633312, "section": "Events › September"}}]}