{"slug": "sierra-leone", "label": "Sierra Leone", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_Leone", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1044", "qid": "Q1044", "description": "sovereign state in West Africa", "entries": 11, "years": 10, "span": [1460, 1997], "span_label": ["1460 CE", "1997 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}], "related": [{"slug": "guinea", "label": "Guinea", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "east-india-company", "label": "East India Company", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nigeria", "label": "Nigeria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ghana", "label": "Ghana", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "liberia", "label": "Liberia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1460, "year_label": "1460 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Portuguese navigator Pedro de Sintra reaches the coast of modern-day Sierra Leone.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371496065#Date_unknown", "title": "1460", "revid": 1371496065, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1607, "year_label": "1607 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 – Hamlet is performed aboard the East India Company ship Red Dragon, under the command of Capt. William Keeling, anchored off the coast of Sierra Leone, the first known performance of a Shakespeare play outside England in English, and the first by amateurs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358831090#July–September", "title": "1607", "revid": 1358831090, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1792, "year_label": "1792 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 7", "text": "March 7 – A settlement is formed in Sierra Leone in West Africa as a home for freed slaves.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359853540#January–March", "title": "1792", "revid": 1359853540, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1808, "year_label": "1808 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 1", "text": "January 1 – Sierra Leone becomes a British Crown Colony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369185588#January–March", "title": "1808", "revid": 1369185588, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1882, "year_label": "1882 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 28", "text": "June 28 – The Anglo-French Convention of 1882 is signed, marking territorial boundaries between Guinea and Sierra Leone.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360586433#June", "title": "1882", "revid": 1360586433, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1882, "year_label": "1882 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 20", "text": "March 20 – British gunboats enter Monrovia, with Arthur Havelock demanding that Liberia cede disputed territory to the British colony of Sierra Leone, of which he is Governor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360586433#March", "title": "1882", "revid": 1360586433, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 25", "text": "December 25 – The German cruiser Admiral Hipper attacks a British shipping convoy (WS 5A) en route to Sierra Leone 700 miles (1,100 km) west of Cape Finisterre in Spain. Admiral Hipper sinks one ship but has to withdraw with engine trouble.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#December", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1943, "year_label": "1943 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March", "text": "Italian submarine Leonardo da Vinci sinks Canadian Pacific liner RMS Empress of Canada off Sierra Leone. Nearly half of the 392 fatalities are Italian prisoners of war.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373526844#March", "title": "1943", "revid": 1373526844, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 21", "text": "August 21 – The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone send peacekeepers to intervene in the First Liberian Civil War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#August", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1996, "year_label": "1996 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6 – A boat carrying market traders capsizes outside Freetown harbour in Sierra Leone, killing at least 86 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371596794#March", "title": "1996", "revid": 1371596794, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1997, "year_label": "1997 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 25", "text": "May 25 – A military coup in Sierra Leone replaces President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah with Major Johnny Paul Koroma.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367978156#May", "title": "1997", "revid": 1367978156, "section": "Events › May"}}]}