{"slug": "cambridge", "label": "Cambridge", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cambridge", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q350", "qid": "Q350", "description": "city in Cambridgeshire, England", "entries": 10, "years": 10, "span": [875, 1933], "span_label": ["875 CE", "1933 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Cambridge, Cambridgeshire"], "related": [{"slug": "kingdom-of-england", "label": "Kingdom of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "oxford", "label": "Oxford", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "winchester", "label": "Winchester", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "canterbury", "label": "Canterbury", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lincoln-england", "label": "Lincoln, England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "denmark", "label": "Denmark", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "june", "label": "June", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "wessex", "label": "Wessex", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alfred-the-great", "label": "Alfred the Great", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "great-heathen-army", "label": "Great Heathen Army", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "guthrum", "label": "Guthrum", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 875, "year_label": "875 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June", "text": "June – The Great Heathen Army, led by Guthrum, moves on Cambridge. He later returns to Wessex, to establish a winter quarter. King Alfred the Great fights the Danes in a naval engagement.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352180718#Britain", "title": "875", "revid": 1352180718, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1264, "year_label": "1264 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April", "text": "April – Gilbert de Clare leads a massacre of the Jews at Canterbury, during the outbreak of the Second Barons' War. In the meantime, another of de Montfort's followers, John FitzJohn, leads a massacre against the Jews in London. The Jewish communities of Northampton, Winchester, Cambridge, and Lincoln are looted. The archæ (official chest of records) is destroyed or deposited at the headquarters of de Montfort's supporters at Ely.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334426011#British_Isles", "title": "1264", "revid": 1334426011, "section": "Events › By place › British Isles"}}, {"year": 1388, "year_label": "1388 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 9", "text": "September 9 – The 16th Parliament of King Richard II, the first since the adjournment of the Merciless Parliament, opens at the Barnwell Priory in Cambridge for a five-week session, during which the members bring their complaints against the Lords Appellant.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360557860#July–September", "title": "1388", "revid": 1360557860, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1517, "year_label": "1517 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "A third outbreak of the sweating sickness in England hits Oxford and Cambridge. It is said that in Oxford that upwards of 400 students died in less than a week.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366649067#Date_unknown", "title": "1517", "revid": 1366649067, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1615, "year_label": "1615 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "The Perse School in Cambridge, England, is founded by Dr Stephen Perse.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365922608#Date_unknown", "title": "1615", "revid": 1365922608, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1676, "year_label": "1676 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Construction begins on Trinity College Library in Cambridge, designed by Sir Christopher Wren.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737473#Undated", "title": "1676 in England", "revid": 1353737473, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1684, "year_label": "1684 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "August", "text": "August – Edmond Halley goes to Cambridge to discuss the problem of planetary motion with Isaac Newton.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366005630#July–September", "title": "1684", "revid": 1366005630, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1766, "year_label": "1766 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "October", "text": "October – Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge, completed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374050808#Events", "title": "1766 in Great Britain", "revid": 1374050808, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1820, "year_label": "1820 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 2", "text": "2 March – Kendall, Hongi Hika, and Hongi's nephew Waikato from Rangihoua, sail for England in the whaler New Zealander 1808 ship. Kendall confers with Professor Samuel Lee at Cambridge on the publication of Grammar and Vocabulary of the New Zealand Language. The book is published at the end of the year. The well known painting of Kendall with the two chiefs is painted by James Barry. Hongi's main purpose in this trip is to obtain muskets, at which he is eventually successful.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360324047#Events", "title": "1820 in New Zealand", "revid": 1360324047, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1933, "year_label": "1933 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "January 28", "text": "January 28 – \"Pakistan Declaration\": Choudhry Rahmat Ali publishes (in Cambridge, UK) a pamphlet entitled Now or Never; Are We to Live or Perish Forever?, in which he calls for the creation of a Muslim state in northwest India that he calls \"Pakstan\"; this influences the Pakistan Movement.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371108771#January", "title": "1933", "revid": 1371108771, "section": "Events › January"}}]}