{"slug": "zhejiang", "label": "Zhejiang", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhejiang", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16967", "qid": "Q16967", "description": "province of China", "entries": 10, "years": 10, "span": [598, 2019], "span_label": ["598 CE", "2019 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "hangzhou", "label": "Hangzhou", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "fujian", "label": "Fujian", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "shandong", "label": "Shandong", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "song-dynasty", "label": "Song dynasty", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "emperor-huizong-of-song", "label": "Emperor Huizong of Song", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ming-dynasty", "label": "Ming dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kangxi-emperor", "label": "Kangxi Emperor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "guangdong", "label": "Guangdong", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "qianlong-emperor", "label": "Qianlong Emperor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "philippines", "label": "Philippines", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chinese-buddhism", "label": "Chinese Buddhism", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 598, "year_label": "598 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Guoqing Temple is built on Mount Tiantai (Zhejiang), and becomes the site for the teachings of Chinese Buddhism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751875#Religion", "title": "598", "revid": 1364751875, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 750, "year_label": "750 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "In China during the Tang Dynasty, a barge load of tea (a medicinal herb) comes up the Grand Canal to Luoyang, from Zhejiang (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358128937#Food_and_drink", "title": "750", "revid": 1358128937, "section": "Events › By topic › Food and drink"}}, {"year": 1120, "year_label": "1120 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Fang La, a Chinese rebel leader, leads an uprising against the Song dynasty in Qixian Village (modern-day Zhejiang) in southeast China. He raises an army and captures Hangzhou.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1298169999#Asia", "title": "1120", "revid": 1298169999, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1121, "year_label": "1121 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Emperor Huizong of Song sends an expedition to crush the rebellion at Hangzhou (modern-day Zhejiang) in China. The rebels are defeated and their leader Fang La is captured and executed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362154597#Asia", "title": "1121", "revid": 1362154597, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1134, "year_label": "1134 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Wu Ge, Chinese Song Dynasty Deputy Transport Commissioner of Zhejiang, has paddle wheel warships constructed with a total of nine wheels, and others with thirteen wheels.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321069056#Asia", "title": "1134", "revid": 1321069056, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1438, "year_label": "1438 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "Just two years after the Ming dynasty court of China allowed landowners paying the grain tax to pay their tax in silver instead, the Ming court now decides to close all silver mines and prohibit all private silver mining in Zhejiang and Fujian provinces. This is a concerted effort to halt the increase of silver circulating into the market. The illegal mining of silver is now an offense punishable by death; although it becomes a dangerous affair, the high demand for silver also makes it very lucrative, and so many chose to defy the government and continue to mine.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365935905#Date_unknown", "title": "1438", "revid": 1365935905, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1538, "year_label": "1538 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "In China, a tsunami floods over the seawall in Haiyan County of Zhejiang province, inundating fields with saltwater, ruining many acres of crops. This drives up the price of foodstuffs, and many are forced to live off of tree bark and weeds (as Wang Wenlu states in his writing of 1545).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561127#Date_unknown", "title": "1538", "revid": 1369561127, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1668, "year_label": "1668 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 16", "text": "December 16 – In China, the 1661 edict of the \"Great Clearance\", the forcible evacuation of the coastal areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangnan, and Shandong in order to fight a rebellion, is rescinded by the Kangxi Emperor after lobbying by Zhou Youde, the Viceroy of Liangguang.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365989896#October_–December", "title": "1668", "revid": 1365989896, "section": "Events › October –December"}}, {"year": 1768, "year_label": "1768 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 25", "text": "July 25 – The Imperial Court of China's Emperor Qianlong and his three senior grand councilors, Fuheng, Yenjisan and Liu T'ung-hsun, issues a directive to officials in the Zhejiang, Jiangsu and Shandong provinces warning them about the need to respond to rumors of sorcery.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369390957#July–September", "title": "1768", "revid": 1369390957, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 2019, "year_label": "2019 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "August 10", "text": "August 10 – 32 are killed and 1,000,000 evacuated as Typhoon Lekima makes landfall in Zhejiang, China. Earlier it had caused flooding in the Philippines.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373255188#August", "title": "2019", "revid": 1373255188, "section": "Events › August"}}]}