{"slug": "the-fens", "label": "The Fens", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fens", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1404827", "qid": "Q1404827", "description": "naturally marshy region in eastern England", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [520, 1642], "span_label": ["520 CE", "1642 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "suffolk", "label": "Suffolk", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "norfolk", "label": "Norfolk", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "england", "label": "England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-east-anglia", "label": "Kingdom of East Anglia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anglo-saxons", "label": "Anglo-Saxons", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "william-the-conqueror", "label": "William the Conqueror", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "east-anglia", "label": "East Anglia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sweyn-ii-of-denmark", "label": "Sweyn II of Denmark", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 520, "year_label": "520 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Kingdom of East Anglia is formed, by the merging of the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and perhaps the eastern part of The Fens (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364908909#Britannia", "title": "520", "revid": 1364908909, "section": "Events › By place › Britannia"}}, {"year": 575, "year_label": "575 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia is divided into the English counties of Norfolk and Suffolk, and perhaps the eastern part of the Cambridgeshire Fens (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367658531#Britain", "title": "575", "revid": 1367658531, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1070, "year_label": "1070 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Spring – King Sweyn II of Denmark joins rebels in England led by Hereward the Wake and captures the Isle of Ely in The Fens of East Anglia. On June 1 Hereward sacks Peterborough Abbey with support from Sweyn's Danes.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1327891061#Events", "title": "1070", "revid": 1327891061, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1071, "year_label": "1071 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The English rebels under Hereward the Wake and Morcar, Saxon former earl of Northumbria, are forced to retreat to their stronghold on the Isle of Ely in The Fens. They make a desperate stand against the Norman forces led by King William the Conqueror, but are defeated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332932306#England", "title": "1071", "revid": 1332932306, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1287, "year_label": "1287 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December", "text": "December – Parts of Norfolk are flooded, the port of Dunwich in Suffolk is further devastated, and in The Fens through the storm and the violence of the sea, the monastery of Spalding and many churches are overthrown and destroyed: \"The whole country in the parts of Holland was, for the most part, turned into a standing pool so that an intolerable multitude of men, women and children were overwhelmed with the water, especially in the town of Boston, a great part thereof was destroyed.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361694581#England", "title": "1287", "revid": 1361694581, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 1642, "year_label": "1642 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 24", "text": "October 24 – Robert Bertie, 1st Earl of Lindsey, English Fen drainage adventurer and soldier (b. 1583)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350256188#Deaths", "title": "1642", "revid": 1350256188, "section": "Deaths"}}]}