{"slug": "yerevan", "label": "Yerevan", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yerevan", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1953", "qid": "Q1953", "description": "capital and largest city of Armenia", "entries": 8, "years": 7, "span": [-781, 2009], "span_label": ["782 BCE", "2009 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "armenia", "label": "Armenia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "safavid-dynasty", "label": "Safavid dynasty", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "ottoman-empire", "label": "Ottoman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "june", "label": "June", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "armenians", "label": "Armenians", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "isfahan", "label": "Isfahan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "tehran", "label": "Tehran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "persia", "label": "Persia", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -781, "year_label": "782 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "782 BC—Founding of Erebuni Fortress by the orders of King Argishtis I of Urartu at the site of current-day Yerevan, Armenia", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1284850077#Events_and_trends", "title": "780s BC", "revid": 1284850077, "section": "Events and trends"}}, {"year": 1603, "year_label": "1603 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 15", "text": "November 15 – Having recaptured Tabriz from the Ottoman Empire, Abbas the Great leads the Safavids in a siege of Yerevan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366656830#October–December", "title": "1603", "revid": 1366656830, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1604, "year_label": "1604 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June", "text": "June – Ottoman–Safavid War (1603–18): Shāh Abbas I of Persia's Safavid army captures the city of Yerevan from the Ottoman Empire after a siege. At this time the Shāh begins the expulsion of Armenians from Jolfa to New Julfa in his capital of Isfahan; more than 25,000 die during the exodus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348862771#April–June", "title": "1604", "revid": 1348862771, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1604, "year_label": "1604 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 – Ottoman–Safavid War: General Cigalazade Yusuf Sinan Pasha, commander of the eastern Ottoman Army, leads troops on a march from Constantinople to fight the Persia's Safavid Army in Armenia, but arrives too late to save the city of Yerevan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1348862771#April–June", "title": "1604", "revid": 1348862771, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1679, "year_label": "1679 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – A 6.4 magnitude earthquake in Armenia strikes near Yerevan, at the time part of the Persian Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366669253#April–June", "title": "1679", "revid": 1366669253, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1827, "year_label": "1827 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 1", "text": "October 1 – Russo-Persian War, 1826–1828: The Russians under Ivan Paskevich storm Yerevan, ending a millennium of Muslim domination in Armenia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362794712#October–December", "title": "1827", "revid": 1362794712, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1976, "year_label": "1976 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "September 16", "text": "September 16 – Shavarsh Karapetyan saves 20 people from a trolleybus that had fallen into a Yerevan reservoir.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372603253#September", "title": "1976", "revid": 1372603253, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2009, "year_label": "2009 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 15", "text": "July 15 – Caspian Airlines Flight 7908, en route from Tehran, Iran, to Yerevan, Armenia crashes into the Jannatabad village in Qazvin Province; killing all 168 on board.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367728140#July", "title": "2009", "revid": 1367728140, "section": "Events › July"}}]}