{"slug": "tiber", "label": "Tiber", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiber", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13712", "qid": "Q13712", "description": "river in Italy", "entries": 9, "years": 9, "span": [-390, 897], "span_label": ["391 BCE", "897 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "byzantine-empire", "label": "Byzantine Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ostrogoths", "label": "Ostrogoths", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "apulia", "label": "Apulia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "belisarius", "label": "Belisarius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "southern-italy", "label": "Southern Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "totila", "label": "Totila", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "defensive-wall", "label": "Defensive wall", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "duchy-of-spoleto", "label": "Duchy of Spoleto", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "berengar-i-of-italy", "label": "Berengar I of Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ancient-rome", "label": "Ancient Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "praetorian-guard", "label": "Praetorian Guard", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -390, "year_label": "391 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Quintus Fabius Ambustus and two other Fabii are sent as ambassadors by Rome to a wandering tribe of Celts (whom the Romans call Gauls), under Brennus, who are advancing down the Tiber while the Celtic army is besieging Clusium. After Quintus Fabius' group becomes involved in a skirmish with the Gauls and kill one of the Gauls' leaders, the offended Gauls demand that Rome surrender the Fabii members to them. The Romans refuse, so the Gauls advance on Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367650502#Roman_Republic", "title": "391 BC", "revid": 1367650502, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -45, "year_label": "46 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Caesar's erstwhile mistress, Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt, and his son by her, Caesarion, take up residence in one of the dictator's estates on the Tiber.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361069033#Roman_Republic", "title": "46 BC", "revid": 1361069033, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 15, "year_label": "15 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "The river Tiber floods parts of Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371078816#Roman_Empire", "title": "10s", "revid": 1371078816, "section": "Events › 15 AD › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 42, "year_label": "42 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Claudius begins construction of Portus, a harbour bearing a lighthouse on the right bank of the Tiber.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_42", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 42"}}, {"year": 222, "year_label": "222 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 13", "text": "March 13 – Emperor Elagabalus is assassinated, along with his mother, Julia Soaemias, by the Praetorian Guard during a revolt. Their mutilated bodies are dragged through the streets of Rome before being thrown into the Tiber.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371226830#Roman_Empire", "title": "222", "revid": 1371226830, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 312, "year_label": "312 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "October 29", "text": "October 29 – Constantine enters Rome; he stages a grand adventus in the city, and is met with popular jubilation. Maxentius' body is fished out of the Tiber and decapitated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369557372#Roman_Empire", "title": "312", "revid": 1369557372, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 546, "year_label": "546 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 17", "text": "December 17 – Sack of Rome: After almost a year's siege, the capture of a grain fleet sent by the exiled Pope Vigilius near the mouth of the Tiber, and failure of troops of the Byzantine Empire under Belisarius to relieve the city, the Ostrogoths under King Totila plunder Rome and destroy its fortifications. He then withdraws to Apulia (Southern Italy).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364747564#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "546", "revid": 1364747564, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 848, "year_label": "848 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Pope Leo IV builds (on the opposite of the Tiber River) the Leonine City, a fortified three-kilometre wall that encircles the Vatican Hill and Borgo, to defend Rome.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129160#Religion", "title": "848", "revid": 1341129160, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 897, "year_label": "897 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Spring – King Lambert II travels to Rome with his mother, Queen Ageltrude and brother Guy IV, Lombard duke of Spoleto, to meet Pope Stephen VI to receive reconfirmation of his imperial title. Guy is murdered on the Tiber by agents of Alberic I, a Frankish nobleman with political interests. He seizes Spoleto (possibly at the instigation of King Berengar I) and sets himself up as duke.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130275#Europe", "title": "897", "revid": 1341130275, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}