{"slug": "springfield-massachusetts", "label": "Springfield, Massachusetts", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield%2C_Massachusetts", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q49158", "qid": "Q49158", "description": "county seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1636, 1930], "span_label": ["1636 CE", "1930 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "massachusetts-bay-colony", "label": "Massachusetts Bay Colony", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "algonquian-peoples", "label": "Algonquian peoples", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1636, "year_label": "1636 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 14", "text": "May 14 – William Pynchon and his men establish the settlement of Agawam Plantation (now Springfield, Massachusetts) in territory controlled by the Agawam people, a subset of the Algonquian peoples, and negotiate for its purchase for Britain's Connecticut Colony. The Agawams deed the land to Connecticut on July 15, and the area is later deeded by Connecticut to the Massachusetts Bay Colony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358525522#April–June", "title": "1636", "revid": 1358525522, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1675, "year_label": "1675 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 5", "text": "October 5 – The Pocomtuc tribe attacks and destroys the English settlement at Springfield, Massachusetts.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365992546#October–December", "title": "1675", "revid": 1365992546, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1836, "year_label": "1836 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "October 24", "text": "October 24 – The earliest United States patent for a phosphorus friction match is granted to Alonzo Dwight Phillips, of Springfield, Massachusetts.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368342504#October–December", "title": "1836", "revid": 1368342504, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1892, "year_label": "1892 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 11", "text": "March 11 – The first basketball game is played in public, between students and faculty at the Springfield, Massachusetts, YMCA before 200 spectators. The final score is 5–1 in favor of the students, with the only goal for the faculty being scored by Amos Alonzo Stagg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372569087#March", "title": "1892", "revid": 1372569087, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "September 21", "text": "September 21 – Brothers Charles and Frank Duryea drive the first gasoline-powered motorcar in America, on public roads in Springfield, Massachusetts.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369946190#September", "title": "1893", "revid": 1369946190, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1930, "year_label": "1930 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6 – The first frozen foods of Clarence Birdseye go on sale in Springfield, Massachusetts.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373315156#March", "title": "1930", "revid": 1373315156, "section": "Events › March"}}]}