{"slug": "somme-river", "label": "Somme (river)", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somme_%28river%29", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q37646", "qid": "Q37646", "description": "river in Picardy, France", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [431, 1066], "span_label": ["431 CE", "1066 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["River Somme"], "related": [{"slug": "francia", "label": "Francia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "loire", "label": "Loire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "franks", "label": "Franks", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "gaul", "label": "Gaul", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "visigoths", "label": "Visigoths", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "late-roman-army", "label": "Late Roman army", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "clovis-i", "label": "Clovis I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "charles-the-bald", "label": "Charles the Bald", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seine", "label": "Seine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "rhine", "label": "Rhine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "saxony", "label": "Saxony", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 431, "year_label": "431 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Aetius pushes the Salian Franks back across the River Somme. King Chlodio signs a peace treaty and becomes a foederatus of the Western Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311961439#Roman_Empire", "title": "431", "revid": 1311961439, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 486, "year_label": "486 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Franco-Roman War of 486 – Battle of Soissons (Gaul): Frankish forces under King Clovis I defeat the Roman army of Syagrius. Roman rule under Syagrius ends. The land between the Somme and the Loire becomes a part of the Frankish Empire. Syagrius flees to the Visigoths (under King Alaric II), but Clovis threatens war, and he is handed over for execution.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340789363#Europe", "title": "486", "revid": 1340789363, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 687, "year_label": "687 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Battle of Tertry: King Theuderic III of Neustria is defeated by Pepin of Herstal, mayor of the palace of Austrasia, near Péronne (modern France), at the River Somme. Theuderic withdraws to Paris and is forced to sign a peace treaty. Pepin becomes \"de facto\" ruler of the Frankish Kingdom, and begins calling himself Duke of the Franks. He establishes a base for the future rise of the Pippinids and the Carolingians. Pepin appoints Nordebert as Duke of Burgundy, and puts him in charge of Neustria and Burgundy (as a sort of regent).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806293#Europe", "title": "687", "revid": 1340806293, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 860, "year_label": "860 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "King Charles the Bald gives the order to build fortified bridges across the Seine and Loire Rivers, to protect Paris and the Frankish heartland against Viking raids. He hires the services of Weland, a Viking chieftain based on the Somme, to attack the Seine Vikings at their base on the Isle of Oissel. Weland besieges the Vikings—they offer him a huge bribe (6,000 pounds of silver) to let them escape.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367666755#Europe", "title": "860", "revid": 1367666755, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 883, "year_label": "883 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Viking raiders ravage Flanders, and sack the abbey at Saint-Quentin. King Carloman II blocks their passage at Laviers, which had been on the banks of the Somme. Meanwhile, Vikings enter the Rhine, but are turned back by Henry of Franconia (possibly a margrave of Saxony). They over-winter at Duisburg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129939#Europe", "title": "883", "revid": 1341129939, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 942, "year_label": "942 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 17", "text": "December 17 – William I (\"Longsword\"), duke of Normandy, is ambushed and assassinated by supporters of Arnulf I (\"the Great\"), count of Flanders, while the two are at a peace conference at Picquigny (on an island on the Somme) to settle their differences. William is succeeded by his 9-year-old son Richard.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364918673#Europe", "title": "942", "revid": 1364918673, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1066, "year_label": "1066 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "September 27", "text": "September 27 – William, Duke of Normandy and his army set sail from the mouth of the River Somme, beginning the Norman conquest of England. The following day he lands on the English coast at Pevensey, splits his forces, and sails with the main army to Hastings.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370249569#England_and_Scotland", "title": "1066", "revid": 1370249569, "section": "Events › Europe › England and Scotland"}}]}