{"slug": "germans", "label": "Germans", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germans", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q42884", "qid": "Q42884", "description": "residents and citizens of Germany & people of German descent", "entries": 13, "years": 13, "span": [41, 1896], "span_label": ["41 CE", "1896 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["German people", "German peoples"], "related": [{"slug": "rhine", "label": "Rhine", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "athens", "label": "Athens", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "balkans", "label": "Balkans", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "elefsina", "label": "Elefsina", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "paris", "label": "Paris", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "neustria", "label": "Neustria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chilperic-i", "label": "Chilperic I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "brunhilda-of-austrasia", "label": "Brunhilda of Austrasia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sigebert-i", "label": "Sigebert I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chartres", "label": "Chartres", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "franks", "label": "Franks", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 41, "year_label": "41 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "An attack across the Rhine by the Germans is stopped by the Romans.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_41", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 41"}}, {"year": 69, "year_label": "69 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "German warbands cross over to join the revolt and attack the fortress at Mainz.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367882081#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 69", "revid": 1367882081, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 167, "year_label": "167 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "The Germans devastate the Balkans and ransack the sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371302510#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 167", "revid": 1371302510, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 246, "year_label": "246 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Philip the Arab fights the Germans along the Danube River.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359487663#Roman_Empire", "title": "246", "revid": 1359487663, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 278, "year_label": "278 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Probus resettles the Germanic tribes in the devastated provinces of the Roman Empire. He adopts the titles of Gothicus Maximus and Germanicus Maximus.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267075888#Roman_Empire", "title": "278", "revid": 1267075888, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 493, "year_label": "493 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Theodoric the Great allies with the Franks and marries Audofleda, sister of Clovis I. He also marries his own female relatives to princes or kings of the Burgundians, Vandals and Visigoths, establishing a political alliance with the Germanic kingdoms in the West.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340790263#Europe", "title": "493", "revid": 1340790263, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 573, "year_label": "573 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Sigibert I goes to war against his half brother Chilperic I of Neustria at the urging of his wife, Brunhilda. He appeals to the Germans on the right bank of the Rhine for help, and they obligingly attack the environs of Paris and Chartres.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332331069#Europe", "title": "573", "revid": 1332331069, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1147, "year_label": "1147 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June", "text": "June – The Wendish Crusade: An expedition of Crusaders – composed of Germans, Saxons and Danes – expels the Obotrites from Wagria (Schleswig-Holstein). Two Danish fleets led by King Canute V in alliance with co-ruler Sweyn III, ravage the northern coast. The countryside of Mecklenburg and Pommerania is plundered and depopulated with much bloodshed, especially by German forces under Henry the Lion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362163362#Europe", "title": "1147", "revid": 1362163362, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1727, "year_label": "1727 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 20", "text": "February 20 – German composer George Frideric Handel becomes a British subject.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360176234#January–March", "title": "1727", "revid": 1360176234, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1837, "year_label": "1837 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 19", "text": "19 March – The first permanent European settlement in Canterbury. Prussian whaling captain George Hempleman (var. Hemplemann) establishes a whaling station at Peraki Bay, Banks Peninsula. Hempleman and his wife are the first German settlers in New Zealand.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360381243#Events", "title": "1837 in New Zealand", "revid": 1360381243, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1848, "year_label": "1848 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Approximately 163 German settlers, known as the Bergthiel Settlers, arrive in Natal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368952259#Events", "title": "1848 in South Africa", "revid": 1368952259, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1856, "year_label": "1856 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Approximately 3000 Crimean War veterans (German Legionnaires) settled in Kaffraria, later joined by 2700 German civilians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368952694#Events", "title": "1856 in South Africa", "revid": 1368952694, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1896, "year_label": "1896 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "German physicist Wilhelm Wien derives the Wien approximation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331893465#Undated", "title": "1896 in Germany", "revid": 1331893465, "section": "Events › Undated"}}]}