{"slug": "british-columbia", "label": "British Columbia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Columbia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1973", "qid": "Q1973", "description": "province of Canada", "entries": 20, "years": 19, "span": [700, 2011], "span_label": ["700 CE", "2011 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 4}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 4}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "vancouver", "label": "Vancouver", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "canada", "label": "Canada", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "japan", "label": "Japan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "india", "label": "India", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "california", "label": "California", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-mexico", "label": "New Mexico", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "washington-state", "label": "Washington (state)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "arizona", "label": "Arizona", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "oregon", "label": "Oregon", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "san-francisco", "label": "San Francisco", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "african-americans", "label": "African Americans", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canadian-confederation", "label": "Canadian Confederation", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 700, "year_label": "700 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "The Mount Edziza volcanic complex erupts in northern British Columbia, Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806781#North_America", "title": "700", "revid": 1340806781, "section": "Events › By place › North America"}}, {"year": 950, "year_label": "950 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "The Mount Edziza volcanic complex in British Columbia, Canada, produces an explosive eruption that deposits the Sheep Track Member.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365260811#North_America", "title": "950", "revid": 1365260811, "section": "Events › By place › North America"}}, {"year": 1830, "year_label": "1830 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Influenza epidemic strikes tribes of British Columbia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358845789#Events", "title": "1830 in Canada", "revid": 1358845789, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1858, "year_label": "1858 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "About 600 African-Americans from California move to Victoria, British Columbia by invitation of Governor James Douglas as part of the gold rush migration. One of them, Mifflin Gibbs, later plays a key role in persuading British Columbia to become part of Canada. Douglas declares Emancipation Day, August 1, the anniversary of the end of slavery in the British Empire, as the colonies' first official holiday August 1, to the chagrin of the white American element in the colony, though Victoria's West Indian police force, recruited by Douglas, was necessarily disbanded because of the hostility from the numerous Americans in the emerging city. Also among the African-Americans who came with the gold rush was Isaac \"Ikey\" Dixon, whose brawl in his Yale barbershop and subsequent safe-custody arrest triggered off the events known as McGowan's War, and who soon after became a noted and popular columnist for the Barkerville newspaper The Cariboo Sentinel.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349957477#Events", "title": "1858 in Canada", "revid": 1349957477, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1862, "year_label": "1862 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "March 13", "text": "March 13 – A smallpox epidemic in San Francisco spreads to British Columbia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358615004#March", "title": "1862", "revid": 1358615004, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1871, "year_label": "1871 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 20", "text": "July 20 – British Columbia joins the confederation of Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368649173#July–September", "title": "1871", "revid": 1368649173, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1872, "year_label": "1872 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "A British Columbia law bans all Asian and First Nations peoples from voting.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349957885#Full_date_unknown", "title": "1872 in Canada", "revid": 1349957885, "section": "Events › Full date unknown"}}, {"year": 1878, "year_label": "1878 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Anti-Chinese sentiment in British Columbia reaches a high point as the government bans Chinese workers from public works.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349958079#Full_date_unknown", "title": "1878 in Canada", "revid": 1349958079, "section": "Events › Full date unknown"}}, {"year": 1886, "year_label": "1886 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – The settlement of Vancouver, British Columbia, is incorporated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372679431#April", "title": "1886", "revid": 1372679431, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1886, "year_label": "1886 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 13", "text": "June 13 – The Great Vancouver Fire devastates much of Vancouver, British Columbia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372679431#June", "title": "1886", "revid": 1372679431, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 21", "text": "June 21 – \"Treaty 8\", the most comprehensive of the eleven Numbered Treaties, is signed between the British Crown on behalf of Canada, with various Cree groups of the First Nations, ceding 320,000 sq mi of land in the northern parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and British Columbia, as well as a portion of the Northwest Territories, to the Canadian government.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371393177#June", "title": "1899", "revid": 1371393177, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1900, "year_label": "1900 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "February 27", "text": "February 27 – Charles Semlin is dismissed as premier of British Columbia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349958629#January_to_June", "title": "1900 in Canada", "revid": 1349958629, "section": "Events › January to June"}}, {"year": 1914, "year_label": "1914 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "May 23", "text": "May 23 – The Komagata Maru, a Japanese steamship which sailed from Japan to British Columbia carrying 376 passengers, is turned back from Canada under authority of exclusion laws prohibiting Asian immigrants. Most of the passengers returned to India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363310219#January_to_June", "title": "1914 in Canada", "revid": 1363310219, "section": "Events › January to June"}}, {"year": 1918, "year_label": "1918 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "December 6", "text": "December 6 – A magnitude (M w ) 7.2 earthquake shakes British Columbia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373520023#December", "title": "1918", "revid": 1373520023, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1948, "year_label": "1948 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The Oakridge Transit Centre opens in Vancouver, British Columbia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371784888#Date_unknown", "title": "1948", "revid": 1371784888, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1951, "year_label": "1951 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15–July 1 – In New Mexico, Arizona, California, Oregon, Washington and British Columbia, thousands of acres of forests are destroyed in fires.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368856437#June", "title": "1951", "revid": 1368856437, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1956, "year_label": "1956 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 9", "text": "December 9 – Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 810, a Canadair North Star, crashes into Slesse Mountain near Chilliwack, British Columbia. All 62 people aboard, including five Canadian Football League players, are killed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370022627#December", "title": "1956", "revid": 1370022627, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1964, "year_label": "1964 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March 27", "text": "March 27 – Several towns in coastal British Columbia, including Prince Rupert, Tofino, Port Alberni and Zeballos, suffer damage from tsunamis associated with the Good Friday earthquake in Alaska. Overall damage is estimated at $10 million.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373711409#Events", "title": "1964 in Canada", "revid": 1373711409, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1986, "year_label": "1986 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 2", "text": "May 2 – Expo 86, the 1986 World Exposition on Transportation and Communication, a World's fair, opens in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373510075#May", "title": "1986", "revid": 1373510075, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 2011, "year_label": "2011 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 – A riot broke out in Vancouver, British Columbia in the aftermath of the Boston Bruins' win over the Vancouver Canucks in game seven of the 2011 Stanley Cup Finals.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372940525#June", "title": "2011", "revid": 1372940525, "section": "Events › June"}}]}