{"slug": "sichuan", "label": "Sichuan", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sichuan", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q19770", "qid": "Q19770", "description": "province of China, previously inclusive of the present Chongqing Municipality", "entries": 21, "years": 21, "span": [-317, 2013], "span_label": ["318 BCE", "2013 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 2}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "chengdu", "label": "Chengdu", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "song-dynasty", "label": "Song dynasty", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "qin-state", "label": "Qin (state)", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gautama-buddha", "label": "Gautama Buddha", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "han-dynasty", "label": "Han dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "shu-han", "label": "Shu Han", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "liu-bei", "label": "Liu Bei", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kublai-khan", "label": "Kublai Khan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mongke-khan", "label": "Möngke Khan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "may", "label": "May", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ming-dynasty", "label": "Ming dynasty", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -317, "year_label": "318 BCE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The state of Qin moves into the Sichuan basin, giving them control of that great food-producing plain.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370481410#China", "title": "318 BC", "revid": 1370481410, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": -308, "year_label": "309 BCE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Soon after the State of Qin has conquered the State of Shu (in modern-day Sichuan province), they employ the Shu engineer Bi Ling to create the Guanxian irrigation system, which will eventually provide for over five million people in an area of 40 to 50 sqmi km2, still in use today.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247027805#China", "title": "309 BC", "revid": 1247027805, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 118, "year_label": "118 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The oldest known painted depiction of a wheelbarrow is found in a Chinese tomb of Chengde, Sichuan province, dated to this year.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330326548#Asia", "title": "AD 118", "revid": 1330326548, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 219, "year_label": "219 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cao Cao controls the Yellow River basin and northern China. Sun Quan rules southern China. Liu Bei controls Yi Province (covering present-day Sichuan and Chongqing).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371188900#China", "title": "219", "revid": 1371188900, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 221, "year_label": "221 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 15", "text": "May 15 – Liu Bei, Chinese warlord and descendant of the imperial clan of the Han dynasty, proclaims himself emperor in Chengdu, Sichuan, and establishes the state of Shu Han.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371188819#Asia", "title": "221", "revid": 1371188819, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 588, "year_label": "588 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Wéndi of the Sui dynasty prepares a campaign against the Chen dynasty. He amasses 518,000 troops along the northern bank of the Yangtze River, stretching from Sichuan to the Pacific Ocean.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753170#Asia", "title": "588", "revid": 1364753170, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 650, "year_label": "650 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "The first Chinese paper money is issued, yet these banknotes will not become government-issued until the Song dynasty era Sichuan province issues them in the year 1024, with the central government of China following suit in the 12th century.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804422#Asia", "title": "650", "revid": 1340804422, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 713, "year_label": "713 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Construction begins on the Leshan Giant Buddha near Leshan, Sichuan Province (China). Upon its completion in 803, it will become the largest stone carved Buddha in the world.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807131#Religion", "title": "713", "revid": 1340807131, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 756, "year_label": "756 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "July 14", "text": "July 14 – Xuan Zong flees the capital of Chang'an (along with the imperial court) for Sichuan, as rebel forces advance through the Tongguan Pass toward the city. Meanwhile, An Lushan is ailing, perhaps with diabetes. He is nearly blind and suffers from extreme irascibility.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366654675#Chinese_Empire", "title": "756", "revid": 1366654675, "section": "Events › By place › Chinese Empire"}}, {"year": 829, "year_label": "829 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Bai kingdom of Nanzhao captures the city of Chengdu, in Sichuan Province.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340941503#China", "title": "829", "revid": 1340941503, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 907, "year_label": "907 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 3", "text": "November 3 – The Former Shu Kingdom is founded by the warlord Wang Jian (Prince of Shu) in Chengdu. His power is centered in Sichuan province, in Southwest China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130849#China", "title": "907", "revid": 1341130849, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 1024, "year_label": "1024 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "Jiaozi, the world's first paper-printed money, which later greatly benefits the economy of the Song dynasty, originates in the Sichuan province of China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342213215#Asia", "title": "1024", "revid": 1342213215, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1265, "year_label": "1265 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In the first major battle in five years (since the Song dynasty Chinese pushed the forces of Kublai Khan back across the Yangzi River, after Möngke Khan's failed invasion in 1259), Kublai Khan engages the Chinese in Sichuan province. Kublai gains a preliminary victory, and war booty of 146 captured Song dynasty naval ships.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267064844#North_Africa_and_Asia", "title": "1265", "revid": 1267064844, "section": "Events › By place › North Africa and Asia"}}, {"year": 1371, "year_label": "1371 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May", "text": "May – Under the direction of Zhu Yuanzhang, the Emperor Hongwu, the Ming conquest of Xia begins as troops from China, led by Generals Fu Youde and Tang He invade what is now the Sichuan province from the north, while Admiral Liao Yongzhong leads an attack on Xia's east coast and along the Yangtze river.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370413855#April–June", "title": "1371", "revid": 1370413855, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1647, "year_label": "1647 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "January 2", "text": "January 2 – Chinese bandit leader Zhang Xianzhong, who has ruled the Sichuan province since 1644, is killed at Xichong by a Qing archer, after having been betrayed by one of his officers, Liu Jinzhong.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358071698#January–March", "title": "1647", "revid": 1358071698, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1786, "year_label": "1786 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "June 10", "text": "June 10 – An earthquake-caused landslide dam on the Dadu River gives way, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370552329#April–June", "title": "1786", "revid": 1370552329, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1842, "year_label": "1842 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Dzogchen Monastery, in Sichuan, China, is almost completely destroyed by an earthquake.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365455258#Date_unknown", "title": "1842", "revid": 1365455258, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1850, "year_label": "1850 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 12", "text": "September 12 – The 1850 Xichang earthquake (7.9) shakes the Chinese province of Sichuan killing more than 20,000 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365770371#July–September", "title": "1850", "revid": 1365770371, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1933, "year_label": "1933 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "August 25", "text": "August 25 – The Diexi earthquake shakes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371108771#August", "title": "1933", "revid": 1371108771, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1981, "year_label": "1981 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 24", "text": "January 24 – An earthquake of magnitude in Sichuan, China, kills 150 people. Japan suffers a less serious earthquake on the same day.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369107326#January", "title": "1981", "revid": 1369107326, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2013, "year_label": "2013 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "April 20", "text": "April 20 – 2013 Lushan earthquake: A magnitude 6.6 earthquake jolts Sichuan, China, leaving 193 people dead and more than 11,000 injured.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373160550#April", "title": "2013", "revid": 1373160550, "section": "Events › April"}}]}