{"slug": "vytautas-the-great", "label": "Vytautas the Great", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vytautas_the_Great", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q218186", "qid": "Q218186", "description": "Grand Duke of Lithuania", "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [1352, 1429], "span_label": ["1352 CE", "1429 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "wadysaw-ii-jagieo", "label": "Władysław II Jagiełło", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "teutonic-knights", "label": "Teutonic Knights", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "poland", "label": "Poland", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "lithuania", "label": "Lithuania", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "jogaila", "label": "Jogaila", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "grand-duchy-of-lithuania", "label": "Grand Duchy of Lithuania", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "december", "label": "December", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "teutonic-order", "label": "Teutonic Order", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "torun", "label": "Toruń", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "grand-duchy-of-moscow", "label": "Grand Duchy of Moscow", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-poland-10251385", "label": "Kingdom of Poland (1025–1385)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sigismund-holy-roman-emperor", "label": "Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1352, "year_label": "1352 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Vytautas the Great, Grand Duke of Lithuania (d. 1430)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1294629592#Births", "title": "1352", "revid": 1294629592, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1391, "year_label": "1391 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 21", "text": "January 21 – Vytautas the Great, claimant to the throne of Lithuania, forges an alliance with the Grand Duchy of Moscow as his daughter, Sophia marries Vasily, Grand Prince of Muscovy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365430899#January–March", "title": "1391", "revid": 1365430899, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1392, "year_label": "1392 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 4", "text": "August 4 – King Jogaila of Poland and Lithuania appoints his cousin Vytautas the Great as regent of Lithuania, in return for Vytautas giving up his claim to the Lithuanian throne. Vytautas replaces Jogaila's unpopular brother Skirgaila as regent.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360558319#July–September", "title": "1392", "revid": 1360558319, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1393, "year_label": "1393 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 13", "text": "July 13 - Vytautas the Great, Regent of the Duchy of Lithuania for Wladyslaw II Jagiello, King of Poland, begins a peace conference with the Teutonic Knights, convening in Thorn in the Holy Roman Empire (now Toruń in Poland)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561364#July_–_September", "title": "1393", "revid": 1369561364, "section": "July – September"}}, {"year": 1408, "year_label": "1408 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December", "text": "December – Lithuanian Grand Duke Vytautas meet with Polish King Wladyslaw Jagiello in Navahrudak Castle, where they agree to support the Samogitians uprising to provoke the Teutonic Knights into declaring war against Poland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360565942#July–December", "title": "1408", "revid": 1360565942, "section": "Events › July–December"}}, {"year": 1410, "year_label": "1410 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 15", "text": "July 15 – Battle of Grunwald (Žalgiris), also known as Battle of Tannenberg: Polish and Lithuanian forces under cousins Jogaila and Vytautas the Great decisively defeat the forces of the Teutonic Knights, whose power is broken.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1337551949#July–September", "title": "1410", "revid": 1337551949, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1429, "year_label": "1429 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 6", "text": "January 6 – The Congress of Lutsk opens in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania at the castle of Liubartas in Lutsk. In addition to the Lithuanian nobles gathered there with the Supreme Duke of Lithuania Władysław II Jagiełło and the Grand Duke Vytautas, the Congress is attended by Sigismund, King of Germany, Bohemia, Hungary and Croatia; Erik VII, King of Denmark; a Komtur of the Teutonic Knights; Vasily II, Grand Prince of Moscow; Boris, Duke of Tver; Ivan III, Duke of Ryazan; the Voivode Dan II of Wallachia; and representatives of the Pope, the Byzantine Empire and Moldavia, to discuss the coronation of Vytautas as the King of Lithuania, as well as the siege of Moldavia, entering a against the Ottoman Empire, the ongoing war between Denmark and the Hanseatic League, religious unions and divisions, and assorted economic, trade, and tax-related issues.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351320610#January–March", "title": "1429", "revid": 1351320610, "section": "Events › January–March"}}]}