{"slug": "durban", "label": "Durban", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durban", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5468", "qid": "Q5468", "description": "city in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa", "entries": 18, "years": 16, "span": [1839, 2001], "span_label": ["1839 CE", "2001 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 5}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 3}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Port Natal"], "related": [{"slug": "mahatma-gandhi", "label": "Mahatma Gandhi", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "mumbai", "label": "Mumbai", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "boers", "label": "Boers", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "cape-town", "label": "Cape Town", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "johannesburg", "label": "Johannesburg", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kolkata", "label": "Kolkata", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mauritius", "label": "Mauritius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "british-army", "label": "British Army", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "herbert-hoover", "label": "Herbert Hoover", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1839, "year_label": "1839 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Henry Jervis is elected the Military Administrator of Port Natal", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368951893#Events", "title": "1839 in South Africa", "revid": 1368951893, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1842, "year_label": "1842 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 4", "text": "June 4 – In South Africa, hunter Dick King rides into a British military base in Grahamstown, to warn that the Boers have besieged Durban (he had left 11 days earlier). The British army dispatches a relief force.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365455258#April–June", "title": "1842", "revid": 1365455258, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1842, "year_label": "1842 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 4", "text": "4 June – In South Africa, hunter Dick King rides into the British military base in Grahamstown to warn that Boers have besieged Durban. He had set out eleven days earlier. The British Army dispatches a relief force.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342718689#Events", "title": "1842 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1342718689, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1860, "year_label": "1860 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 26", "text": "26 June – Natal – Durban to Point, 2 mi.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1322717186#Railway_lines_opened", "title": "1860 in South Africa", "revid": 1322717186, "section": "Railways › Railway lines opened"}}, {"year": 1867, "year_label": "1867 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 4", "text": "4 April – Natal – Durban to Umgeni, 3 mi.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1269184289#Railway_lines_opened", "title": "1867 in South Africa", "revid": 1269184289, "section": "Railways › Railway lines opened"}}, {"year": 1877, "year_label": "1877 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "In February and March Whythes & Jackson Limited, contracted by the Natal government for the construction of the line from Durban to Pietermaritzburg, takes delivery of two construction locomotives appropriately named Durban and Pietermaritzburg.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350688301#Locomotives", "title": "1877 in South Africa", "revid": 1350688301, "section": "Railways › Locomotives"}}, {"year": 1888, "year_label": "1888 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The locomotive named Havelock, built in the Durban workshops and known as Hairy Mary during the Second Boer War, is the first locomotive to be designed and built in South Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1269184711#Locomotives", "title": "1888 in South Africa", "revid": 1269184711, "section": "Railways › Locomotives"}}, {"year": 1893, "year_label": "1893 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "May 23", "text": "May 23 – Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1269184757", "title": "1893 in South Africa", "revid": 1269184757, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1896, "year_label": "1896 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 5", "text": "June 5 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi embarks from Durban for Calcutta en route to Bombay.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1271214977", "title": "1896 in South Africa", "revid": 1271214977, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1896, "year_label": "1896 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "December 18", "text": "December 18 – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi arrives back in Durban with his wife and two sons, but the ship is placed under a 5-day quarantine because Bombay was declared a plague-infected port. Quarantine will later be extended to 13 January 1897.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1271214977", "title": "1896 in South Africa", "revid": 1271214977, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1901, "year_label": "1901 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "October", "text": "Mahatma Gandhi embarks at Durban for Mauritius en route to Bombay.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1315450918", "title": "1901 in South Africa", "revid": 1315450918, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1902, "year_label": "1902 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December", "text": "Mahatma Gandhi arrives in Durban from Bombay.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1285888199", "title": "1902 in South Africa", "revid": 1285888199, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1904, "year_label": "1904 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "July 22", "text": "July 22 – The first 2,000 of 62,000 contracted Chinese coolies arrive at Durban in South Africa from Qinhuangdao to relieve the shortage of unskilled labourers in the Transvaal Colony gold mines, recruited and shipped by the Chinese Engineering and Mining Corporation (CEMC), of which Herbert Hoover is a director.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373337754#July", "title": "1904", "revid": 1373337754, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1909, "year_label": "1909 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 26", "text": "July 26 – Blue Anchor Line passenger/cargo liner SS Waratah, on her second voyage from Australia to Britain, leaves Durban and is lost without trace with all 211 aboard.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373420847#July–August", "title": "1909", "revid": 1373420847, "section": "Events › July–August"}}, {"year": 1938, "year_label": "1938 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – The South African Press Association is established, with offices in Cape Town, Johannesburg, Durban, Bloemfontein and Pretoria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368818751#July", "title": "1938", "revid": 1368818751, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1957, "year_label": "1957 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "December", "text": "A series of shark attacks near Durban occur during Black December.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1269185530", "title": "1957 in South Africa", "revid": 1269185530, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 4", "text": "October 4 – Durban rail accident: At least 150 are killed when a commuter train derails at the outskirts of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#September–October", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › September–October"}}, {"year": 2001, "year_label": "2001 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 31", "text": "August 31 – The World Conference against Racism 2001 begins in Durban, South Africa. Israel and the United States withdraw three days later, alleging antisemitism in the conference.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373523156#August", "title": "2001", "revid": 1373523156, "section": "Events › August"}}]}