{"slug": "vladimir-the-great", "label": "Vladimir the Great", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladimir_the_Great", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14974", "qid": "Q14974", "description": "Grand Prince of Kiev", "entries": 9, "years": 8, "span": [958, 1043], "span_label": ["958 CE", "1043 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "kievan-rus", "label": "Kievan Rus'", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "kiev", "label": "Kiev", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "varangians", "label": "Varangians", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "christianity", "label": "Christianity", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "eastern-orthodox-church", "label": "Eastern Orthodox Church", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "crimea", "label": "Crimea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anatolia", "label": "Anatolia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "basil-ii", "label": "Basil II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-norway-8721397", "label": "Kingdom of Norway (872–1397)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "veliky-novgorod", "label": "Veliky Novgorod", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "greater-poland", "label": "Greater Poland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "yaroslav-the-wise", "label": "Yaroslav the Wise", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 958, "year_label": "958 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Vladimir I (the Great), Grand Prince of Kiev (d. 1015)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468198#Births", "title": "958", "revid": 1364468198, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 978, "year_label": "978 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Winter – Vladimir I (the Great), grand prince of Kiev, returns from Norway with a Varangian mercenary army and re-captures Novgorod. On his way to Kiev, he marches against the forces of his brother Yaropolk I.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365272344#Europe", "title": "978", "revid": 1365272344, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 980, "year_label": "980 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 11", "text": "June 11 – Vladimir I (the Great), grand prince of Kiev, consolidates the Kievan realm from modern Ukraine to the Baltic Sea. Vladimir is proclaimed ruler (knyaz) of all Kievan Rus'.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364109392#Europe", "title": "980", "revid": 1364109392, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 987, "year_label": "987 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 7", "text": "February 7 – Bardas Phokas (the Younger) and Bardas Skleros, two members of the military elite, begin a wide-scale rebellion against Emperor Basil II. They overrun Anatolia, and Phokas declares himself Emperor. Basil applies for military assistance from Prince Vladimir the Great, ruler of Kievan Rus', who agrees to help him and sends a Varangian army (6,000 men).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468366#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "987", "revid": 1364468366, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}, {"year": 988, "year_label": "988 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Grand Prince Vladimir the Great, ruler of Kievan Rus', marries Anna Porphyrogenita (sister of Basil II) and converts to Christianity. He is baptized at Cherson in the Crimea, taking the Christian name of Basil (in honor of his brother-in-law). Vladimir returns in triumph to Kiev, and begins the Christianization of Kievan Rus' to the Eastern Orthodox Church.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364920019#Religion", "title": "988", "revid": 1364920019, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1011, "year_label": "1011 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Grand Prince of Kyiv and ruler of Kievan Rus' Vladimir the Great laid the first foundations of Saint Sophia Cathedral, Kyiv.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368048875#Europe", "title": "1011", "revid": 1368048875, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1015, "year_label": "1015 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 15", "text": "July 15 – Vladimir the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365259982#Deaths", "title": "1015", "revid": 1365259982, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1015, "year_label": "1015 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 15", "text": "July 15 – Vladimir the Great dies at Berestove after a 35-year reign. He is succeeded by his son Sviatopolk I as Grand Prince of Kiev.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365259982#Europe", "title": "1015", "revid": 1365259982, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1043, "year_label": "1043 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Grand Prince Yaroslav the Wise of Kiev makes an agreement with Duke Casimir I the Restorer of Poland that recognizes Chervyen as part of Kiev. The agreement is sealed with a double marriage – Casimir to Maria Dobroniega (a daughter of Vladimir the Great), and Iziaslav to Gertrude, Casimir's sister.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365591040#Europe", "title": "1043", "revid": 1365591040, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}]}