{"slug": "wapping", "label": "Wapping", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q124046", "qid": "Q124046", "description": "district of the London Borough of Tower Hamlets", "entries": 6, "years": 6, "span": [1682, 1725], "span_label": ["1682 CE", "1725 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 4}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "river-thames", "label": "River Thames", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1682, "year_label": "1682 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "November 22", "text": "November 22 – Nearly 1,000 houses in Wapping, London are destroyed in a fire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560956#October–December", "title": "1682", "revid": 1369560956, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1701, "year_label": "1701 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 23", "text": "May 23 – Scottish-born Captain William Kidd, having been imprisoned in Boston Gaol (Massachusetts) and Newgate Prison (London) and convicted by the High Court of Admiralty of piracy and the murder of one of his crew, is hanged at Execution Dock in Wapping (London). His body suffers gibbeting over the River Thames at Tilbury Point; ballads are already spreading the legend that he has left buried treasure in the Americas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366683505#April–June", "title": "1701", "revid": 1366683505, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1716, "year_label": "1716 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 4", "text": "December 4 – Fifty people are killed, and 150 houses burned, when a fire breaks out in Wapping, London. The blaze comes two days after a fire at the Spring Gardens at St. James's, London, which destroyed the French Chapel there and which was put out by several rescuers, including the future King George II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360559357#October–December", "title": "1716", "revid": 1360559357, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1718, "year_label": "1718 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 4", "text": "December 4 – Fifty people are killed, and 150 houses burned, when a fire breaks out in Wapping, London. The blaze comes two days after a fire at the Spring Gardens at St. James's, London, which destroyed the French Chapel there and which was put out by several rescuers, including the future King George II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350255401#October_–December", "title": "1718", "revid": 1350255401, "section": "Events › October –December"}}, {"year": 1719, "year_label": "1719 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Raine's Foundation School, Bethnal Green (founded by Henry Raine), opens in Wapping (closed 2020).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365415998#Undated", "title": "1719", "revid": 1365415998, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1725, "year_label": "1725 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "A fire in Wapping, London, destroys 70 houses.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361335962#Date_unknown", "title": "1725", "revid": 1361335962, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}]}