{"slug": "yucatan-peninsula", "label": "Yucatán Peninsula", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yucat%C3%A1n_Peninsula", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q130978", "qid": "Q130978", "description": "peninsula in Central America", "entries": 11, "years": 11, "span": [397, 2002], "span_label": ["397 CE", "2002 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "mexico", "label": "Mexico", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "maya-peoples", "label": "Maya peoples", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "defensive-wall", "label": "Defensive wall", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-great-britain", "label": "Kingdom of Great Britain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "belize", "label": "Belize", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palenque", "label": "Palenque", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jamaica", "label": "Jamaica", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "louisiana", "label": "Louisiana", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 397, "year_label": "397 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "March 30", "text": "March 30 or March 31 – Kʼukʼ Bahlam I, king of Palenque (Yucatán Peninsula, Mexico)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364744022#Births", "title": "397", "revid": 1364744022, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 455, "year_label": "455 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Earliest recorded date at Chichen Itza on the Yucatán Peninsula (Mexico) (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364739434#Mesoamerica", "title": "455", "revid": 1364739434, "section": "Events › By place › Mesoamerica"}}, {"year": 564, "year_label": "564 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Tulum, Maya walled city, on the Yucatán Peninsula (modern Mexico) is first mentioned on a stele inscription.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340800769#Mesoamerica", "title": "564", "revid": 1340800769, "section": "Events › By place › Mesoamerica"}}, {"year": 850, "year_label": "850 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Uxmal becomes the capital of a large state in the Puuk hills region of northern Yucatán (modern Mexico). The city is connected by causeways (sakbe) to other important Puuk sites, such as K'abah, Sayil, and Labna (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129147#Mesoamerica", "title": "850", "revid": 1341129147, "section": "Events › Middle East › Mesoamerica"}}, {"year": 1517, "year_label": "1517 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 4", "text": "March 4 – The first intentional landing by Europeans on the coast of Mexico takes place as the Cordoba Expedition arrives at Cabo Catoche on the Yucatán Peninsula, now in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo. The Spaniards are attacked by the Mayans after being invited to visit, and a battle breaks out with 13 Spaniards ambushed and 15 Mayans killed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366649067#January–March", "title": "1517", "revid": 1366649067, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1528, "year_label": "1528 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spanish Conquistador Francisco de Montejo attempts an invasion of the Yucatán, but is driven out by the Maya peoples.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369577446#Date_unknown", "title": "1528", "revid": 1369577446, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1531, "year_label": "1531 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Conquistador Francisco de Montejo claims Chichen Itza as capital of Spanish-ruled Yucatán.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359939156#Date_unknown", "title": "1531", "revid": 1359939156, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1786, "year_label": "1786 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 14", "text": "July 14 – Convention of London between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain: British settlements on the Mosquito Coast of Central America are to be evacuated; Spain expands the territory available to the British in Belize on the Yucatán Peninsula, for cutting mahogany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370552329#July–September", "title": "1786", "revid": 1370552329, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1838, "year_label": "1838 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "An insurrection breaks out in Tizimín, beginning the campaign for the independence of Yucatán from Mexico.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360381946#April–June", "title": "1838", "revid": 1360381946, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1988, "year_label": "1988 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 12", "text": "September 12 – Hurricane Gilbert devastates Jamaica; it turns towards Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula 2 days later, causing an estimated $5 billion in damage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373532411#September", "title": "1988", "revid": 1373532411, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2002, "year_label": "2002 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 14", "text": "September 14–27 – Hurricane Isidore crosses Cuba, the Yucatán Peninsula, and Louisiana.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372652846#September", "title": "2002", "revid": 1372652846, "section": "Events › September"}}]}