{"slug": "dunkirk", "label": "Dunkirk", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunkirk", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q45797", "qid": "Q45797", "description": "commune in Nord, France", "entries": 14, "years": 10, "span": [1639, 1940], "span_label": ["1639 CE", "1940 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 5}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Dunkerque"], "related": [{"slug": "anglo-spanish-war-16541660", "label": "Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660)", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "spanish-netherlands", "label": "Spanish Netherlands", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "east-indiaman", "label": "East Indiaman", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "france", "label": "France", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "royal-navy", "label": "Royal Navy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "firth-of-forth", "label": "Firth of Forth", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "james-francis-edward-stuart", "label": "James Francis Edward Stuart", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "eighty-years-war", "label": "Eighty Years' War", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "franco-spanish-war-16351659", "label": "Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1639, "year_label": "1639 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 18", "text": "February 18 – In the course of the Eighty Years' War, a sea battle is fought in the English Channel off of the coast of Dunkirk between the navies of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, with 12 warships, and Spain, with 12 galleons and eight other ships. The Spanish are forced to flee after three of their ships are lost and 1,600 Spaniards killed or injured, while the Dutch sustain 1,700 casualties without the loss of a ship.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360051116#January–March", "title": "1639", "revid": 1360051116, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1646, "year_label": "1646 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 10", "text": "October 10 – France takes Dunkirk from the Spanish Netherlands for the first time.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360055090#October–December", "title": "1646", "revid": 1360055090, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1646, "year_label": "1646 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 10", "text": "10 October – France takes Dunkirk from the Spanish Netherlands for the first time.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373396231#Events", "title": "1646 in France", "revid": 1373396231, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1652, "year_label": "1652 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 16", "text": "16 September – Army of Flanders recaptures Dunkirk, occupied by the French in 1646", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370126941#Events", "title": "1652 in Belgium", "revid": 1370126941, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1657, "year_label": "1657 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March", "text": "Treaty of Paris: Anglo-French alliance targeting Dunkirk", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370127777", "title": "1657 in Belgium", "revid": 1370127777, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1657, "year_label": "1657 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 13", "text": "13 March – Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660): With the Treaty of Paris, France and England form an alliance against Spain; England receives Dunkirk.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1355059733#Events", "title": "1657 in England", "revid": 1355059733, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1657, "year_label": "1657 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 23", "text": "March 23 – Anglo-Spanish War (1654–60): By the Treaty of Paris, France and England form an alliance against Spain; England will receive Dunkirk.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366656979#January–March", "title": "1657", "revid": 1366656979, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1658, "year_label": "1658 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 14", "text": "June 14 – Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) and Franco-Spanish War (1635–1659): In the Battle of the Dunes, a Spanish force attempting to lift a siege of Dunkirk is defeated by the French and English. England is then given Dunkirk, for its assistance in the victory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365986033#April–June", "title": "1658", "revid": 1365986033, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1708, "year_label": "1708 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 23", "text": "23 March - James Stuart, the \"Old Pretender\", having sailed from Dunkirk with 5000 French troops, with the intention of invading Britain, attempts to land in the Firth of Forth; the attempt is thwarted by the Royal Navy, under Admiral Byng.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737952#Events", "title": "1708 in France", "revid": 1353737952, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1736, "year_label": "1736 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 2", "text": "2 May - A scientific expedition consisting of Pierre Louis Moreau de Maupertuis, Alexis Claude Clairault, Pierre Charles Lemonnier, Charles Étienne Louis Camus and Anders Celsius, departs from Dunkerque and travels to Tornedalen: they arrive in Stockholm on 21 May and depart for Lappland on 6 June.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1286666805#Events", "title": "1736 in Sweden", "revid": 1286666805, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1744, "year_label": "1744 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 27", "text": "27 February – a planned French invasion of Britain fails when a violent storm partially wrecks the French invasion force attempting to cross from Dunkirk to Maldon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1275835331#Events", "title": "1744 in Great Britain", "revid": 1275835331, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1810, "year_label": "1810 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 27", "text": "December 27 – Chartered British East Indiaman Elizabeth is wrecked off Dunkirk with the loss of more than 360 lives, many of them lascar seamen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357106545#October–December", "title": "1810", "revid": 1357106545, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1810, "year_label": "1810 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 27", "text": "27 December – Chartered East Indiaman Elizabeth is wrecked off Dunkirk with the loss of more than 360 lives.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374053914#Events", "title": "1810 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1374053914, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1940, "year_label": "1940 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – The Dunkirk evacuation ends: The British and French navies, together with large numbers of civilian vessels from various nations, complete evacuating 300,000 troops from Dunkirk, France to England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818987#June", "title": "1940", "revid": 1368818987, "section": "Events › June"}}]}