{"slug": "dorset", "label": "Dorset", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorset", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q23159", "qid": "Q23159", "description": "ceremonial county in South West England, UK", "entries": 20, "years": 19, "span": [495, 1935], "span_label": ["495 CE", "1935 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Deaths", "count": 5}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 5}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 3}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "alfred-the-great", "label": "Alfred the Great", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-england", "label": "Kingdom of England", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "denmark", "label": "Denmark", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "james-ii-of-england", "label": "James II of England", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "william-iii-of-england", "label": "William III of England", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "stadtholder", "label": "Stadtholder", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "wessex", "label": "Wessex", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "hampshire", "label": "Hampshire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "benedictines", "label": "Benedictines", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "thelred-the-unready", "label": "Æthelred the Unready", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ireland", "label": "Ireland", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 495, "year_label": "495 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Cerdic of Wessex and his son, Cynric, land somewhere on the south coast, probably near the Hampshire-Dorset border. Their followers establish the beginnings of the Kingdom of Wessex.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364907640#Britannia", "title": "495", "revid": 1364907640, "section": "Events › By place › Britannia"}}, {"year": 694, "year_label": "694 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Coenred, king of Dorset (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806245#Deaths", "title": "694", "revid": 1340806245, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 705, "year_label": "705 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "King Geraint of Dumnonia grants land at Maker (Cornwall) to Sherborne Abbey, in an attempt to strengthen his position in the disputed regions of Dorset (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807090#Britain", "title": "705", "revid": 1340807090, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 713, "year_label": "713 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "King Ealdwulf of East Anglia dies, and is succeeded by his son Ælfwald. Queen Cuthburh of Northumbria travels south to found a monastery at Wimborne (Dorset).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340807131#Britain", "title": "713", "revid": 1340807131, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 789, "year_label": "789 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle records the first appearance of Vikings in England. The Viking raid on Portland in Dorset is the first of its kind recorded in the British Isles, including Ireland. The reeve of Dorchester (a local high-ranking official) goes to greet them after they land, perhaps accustomed to welcoming Scandinavian merchants. He is killed. Viking attacks increase in intensity over the coming decades.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340848283#Britain", "title": "789", "revid": 1340848283, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 865, "year_label": "865 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Autumn – King Æthelberht of Wessex dies after a 5-year reign, and is buried at Sherborne Abbey (Dorset). He is succeeded by his brother Æthelred I, as ruler of Wessex.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341129586#Britain", "title": "865", "revid": 1341129586, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 876, "year_label": "876 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Great Heathen Army, led by Guthrum, captures the fortress of Wareham (Dorset), and is met by a Viking army (3,500 men) from the sea, which lands at Poole Harbour. King Alfred the Great traps the Vikings, and demands hostages in return for a peace agreement. The Danes divide their forces; half flees to Exeter, where they besiege the town while the other half escape in their ships, but are lost in a storm near Swanage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267070562#Britain", "title": "876", "revid": 1267070562, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 888, "year_label": "888 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Shaftesbury Abbey is founded by King Alfred the Great in Dorset. He installs his daughter Æthelgifu as first abbess (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347624107#Religion", "title": "AD 888", "revid": 1347624107, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 897, "year_label": "897 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "English warships (nine vessels from Alfred's new fleet) intercept six Viking longships in the mouth of an unknown estuary on the south coast (possibly at Poole Harbour) in Dorset. The Danes are blockaded, and three ships attempt to break through the English lines. Lashing the Viking boats to their own, the English crew board the enemy's vessels and kill everyone on board. Some ships manage to escape, two of the other three boats are driven against the Sussex coast. The shipwrecked sailors are brought before King Alfred the Great at Winchester and hanged. Just one Viking ship returns to East Anglia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130275#Britain", "title": "897", "revid": 1341130275, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 978, "year_label": "978 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 18", "text": "March 18 – King Edward the Martyr is murdered at Corfe Castle (Dorsetshire) upon the orders of his step-mother Ælfthryth (or Elfrida). He is succeeded by his half-brother Æthelred II (the Unready) who becomes king of England. During his reign Æthelred tries to keep his realm from being overrun by Danish Viking invaders.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365272344#England", "title": "978", "revid": 1365272344, "section": "Events › By place › England"}}, {"year": 998, "year_label": "998 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Bishop Wulfsige III establishes a Benedictine abbey at Sherborne (Dorsetshire).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365593041#Religion", "title": "998", "revid": 1365593041, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1231, "year_label": "1231 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 13", "text": "August 13 – King Henry III orders the sheriffs of Hampshire, Dorsetshire and Wiltshire to give Simon de Montfort the possession of the lands of his father, Simon de Montfort the elder.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367488978#Britain", "title": "1231", "revid": 1367488978, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1516, "year_label": "1516 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Gillingham School is founded, the oldest in Dorset, England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368315851#Date_unknown", "title": "1516", "revid": 1368315851, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1686, "year_label": "1686 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "A group of conspirators meet at Charborough House in Dorset to plan the overthrow of James II by Parliamentarians and the Dutch Stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau (James's son-in-law).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737615#Undated", "title": "1686 in England", "revid": 1353737615, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1686, "year_label": "1686 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "July 17", "text": "July 17 – King James II of England appoints four Roman Catholics to the Privy Council of England, in defiance of the Test Acts, which bar Catholics from public office. Suspicions about James's intentions lead to a group of conspirators meeting at Charborough House in Dorset, to plan his overthrow and replacement with the Protestant Dutch Stadtholder, William III of Orange-Nassau (James's son-in-law).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368502958#July–September", "title": "1686", "revid": 1368502958, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1706, "year_label": "1706 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "March 21", "text": "March 21 – Mary Channing, who was pregnant at the time that she was convicted of the murder of her husband, is burned at the stake at Dorset, in front of a crowd of 10,000 onlookers.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351890964#January–March", "title": "1706", "revid": 1351890964, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1731, "year_label": "1731 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 4", "text": "4 June – great fire destroys much of the centre of Blandford Forum, Dorset.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1333658126#Events", "title": "1731 in Great Britain", "revid": 1333658126, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1795, "year_label": "1795 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "English Benedictine monks expelled from the Priory of St. Gregory's at Douai, France are permitted to proceed to England where they settle as guests of Sir Edward Smythe at Acton Burnell, Shropshire; later they will establish Downside Abbey in Somerset. This year also English Benedictine nuns expelled from the Priory of Our Lady of Good Hope in Paris settle initially in Dorset; later they will form Saint Mary's Abbey, Colwich.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360242725#Events", "title": "1795 in Great Britain", "revid": 1360242725, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1932, "year_label": "1932 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 26", "text": "26 January — British submarine HMS M2 sinks off the Dorset coast with all sixty hands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365197952#Events", "title": "1932 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1365197952, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1935, "year_label": "1935 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 13", "text": "May 13 – T. E. Lawrence (\"Lawrence of Arabia\") is involved in a motorcycle accident, near his home in Dorset, England, resulting in his death a few days later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370722923#May", "title": "1935", "revid": 1370722923, "section": "Events › May"}}]}