{"slug": "coventry", "label": "Coventry", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6225", "qid": "Q6225", "description": "city in the West Midlands in England, UK", "entries": 14, "years": 13, "span": [1344, 1940], "span_label": ["1344 CE", "1940 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "house-of-york", "label": "House of York", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-england", "label": "Kingdom of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "isabella-of-france", "label": "Isabella of France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "river-thames", "label": "River Thames", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "oxford", "label": "Oxford", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "midlands", "label": "Midlands", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "house-of-commons-of-england", "label": "House of Commons of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "house-of-lancaster", "label": "House of Lancaster", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "leicester", "label": "Leicester", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mary-i", "label": "Mary I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "smithfield-london", "label": "Smithfield, London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "luftwaffe", "label": "Luftwaffe", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1344, "year_label": "1344 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Bablake School is founded in Coventry, England by the dowager Queen Isabella.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292555127#Date_unknown", "title": "1344", "revid": 1292555127, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1402, "year_label": "1402 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 1", "text": "October 1 – The House of Commons of England is opened at Coventry by King Henry IV, whose Lord Chancellor asks the members to pass a tax to support an offensive war against Scotland, enemies of Wales, Ireland and for defending the Marches of Guienne and Calais. Henry Redford is elected Speaker of the House.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371594109#October–December", "title": "1402", "revid": 1371594109, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1404, "year_label": "1404 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 16", "text": "October 16 – The 5th Parliament of King Henry IV of England (summoned August 25), nicknamed \"The Unlearned Parliament\" because Henry refuses to allow lawyers to sit, opens for a four week session in Coventry, closing on November 13.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361962096#October–December", "title": "1404", "revid": 1361962096, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1456, "year_label": "1456 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 17", "text": "17 August – Due to the political turbulence, the court moves to Coventry; Kenilworth Castle is strengthened as the King's principal residence.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353735894#Events", "title": "1456 in England", "revid": 1353735894, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1459, "year_label": "1459 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 10", "text": "10 November – Parliament of Devils, held at Coventry, condemns Yorkists as traitors.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353735922#Events", "title": "1459 in England", "revid": 1353735922, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1459, "year_label": "1459 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November 20", "text": "November 20 – In England, the \"Parliament of Devils\" (so called because it consists of Lancastrian supporters and Yorkist nobles are not invited) opens its session at Coventry in St Mary's Priory and Cathedral.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366548241#October–December", "title": "1459", "revid": 1366548241, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1554, "year_label": "1554 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 30", "text": "January 30 – Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, one of the English conspirators in Wyatt's rebellion, leads troops from Leicester to Coventry, but the group finds that the gates of the city are closed because the rebellion has been exposed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366649182#January–March", "title": "1554", "revid": 1366649182, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1555, "year_label": "1555 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 4", "text": "February 4 – John Rogers is burned at the stake at Smithfield, London, becoming the first of the 284 Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation to be killed during the five and one-half year reign of Queen Mary I of England. His death is followed within the week by that of Laurence Saunders on February 8 in Coventry, and Rowland Taylor, Rector of Hadleigh, Suffolk, and John Hooper, deposed Bishop of Gloucester on February 9.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561106#January–March", "title": "1555", "revid": 1369561106, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1678, "year_label": "1678 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 31", "text": "31 May – the Godiva Procession, a commemoration held in honour of Lady Godiva's legendary 11th century naked horseback ride through the streets of Coventry in protest against her husband's treatment of the citizens, begins.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737510#Events", "title": "1678 in England", "revid": 1353737510, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1685, "year_label": "1685 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "January 8", "text": "January 8 – Almost 200 people are arrested in Coventry by English authorities for gathering to hear readings of the sermons of the non-conformist Protestant minister Obadiah Grew .", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369485499#January–March", "title": "1685", "revid": 1369485499, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1790, "year_label": "1790 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "January 1", "text": "1 January – the Oxford Canal is opened throughout its 91 miles, providing an important link between the River Thames at Oxford and Coventry in the English Midlands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292610790#Events", "title": "1790 in Great Britain", "revid": 1292610790, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1885, "year_label": "1885 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "John Kemp Starley demonstrates the Rover safety bicycle in Coventry (England), regarded as the first practical modern bicycle.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366156062#Date_unknown", "title": "1885", "revid": 1366156062, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1939, "year_label": "1939 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 25", "text": "August 25 – 1939 Coventry bombing: An Irish Republican Army bomb explodes in the centre of Coventry, England, killing 5 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372426050#August", "title": "1939", "revid": 1372426050, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 14", "text": "November 14 – WWII: Coventry Blitz – The city centre of Coventry, England is destroyed by 500 Luftwaffe bombers; 150,000 fire bombs, 503 tons of high explosives and 130 parachute mines level 60,000 of the city's 75,000 buildings; 568 people are killed. The city's cathedral is gutted.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#November", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Events › November"}}]}