{"slug": "guangdong", "label": "Guangdong", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guangdong", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15175", "qid": "Q15175", "description": "province of China", "entries": 13, "years": 13, "span": [-218, 2003], "span_label": ["219 BCE", "2003 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "fujian", "label": "Fujian", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "zhejiang", "label": "Zhejiang", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "guangxi", "label": "Guangxi", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "song-dynasty", "label": "Song dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kublai-khan", "label": "Kublai Khan", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "hangzhou", "label": "Hangzhou", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kangxi-emperor", "label": "Kangxi Emperor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "shandong", "label": "Shandong", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "qin-shi-huang", "label": "Qin Shi Huang", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "southern-han", "label": "Southern Han", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "min-ten-kingdoms", "label": "Min (Ten Kingdoms)", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -218, "year_label": "219 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Qin Shi Huang orders his generals to capture present-day Guangdong and Guangxi.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325717539#China", "title": "219 BC", "revid": 1325717539, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 917, "year_label": "917 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 5", "text": "September 5 – The Great Yue Kingdom, later renamed Southern Han, is founded by Liu Yan, former governor and military advisor, in Panyu (modern Guangdong) and Guangxi. Liu Yan declares himself emperor, and gives his niece Liu Hua in marriage to Wang Yanjun, a son of his rival Wang Shenzhi (Prince of Min), to cement a relationship between the two states.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468140#Asia", "title": "917", "revid": 1364468140, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1276, "year_label": "1276 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Spring – The court of the Southern Song dynasty of China and hundreds of thousands of its citizens flee from Hangzhou to Fujian, and then Guangdong, in an effort to escape a Mongol invasion under Kublai Khan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1344445633#Asia", "title": "1276", "revid": 1344445633, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 1661, "year_label": "1661 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Great Clearance in China: evacuation of Guangdong is required.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365986603#Date_unknown", "title": "1661", "revid": 1365986603, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1663, "year_label": "1663 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "The lifting of an especially strict haijin policy implemented by the Qing in 1661, where the entire coastal population of Fujian, and parts of Guangdong and Zhejiang provinces is moved twenty miles inland. Thousands die in the ordeal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363645531#Events", "title": "1663 in China", "revid": 1363645531, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1668, "year_label": "1668 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 16", "text": "December 16 – In China, the 1661 edict of the \"Great Clearance\", the forcible evacuation of the coastal areas of Guangdong, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangnan, and Shandong in order to fight a rebellion, is rescinded by the Kangxi Emperor after lobbying by Zhou Youde, the Viceroy of Liangguang.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365989896#October_–December", "title": "1668", "revid": 1365989896, "section": "Events › October –December"}}, {"year": 1676, "year_label": "1676 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Shang Zhixin revolts against the Qing, placing Guangdong under his rule and moving his troops north into Jiangxi", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1243748944#Events", "title": "1676 in China", "revid": 1243748944, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1683, "year_label": "1683 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The end of the rebel stronghold and capture of the Ming princes allowed the Kangxi Emperor to relax the Sea Ban and permit resettlement of the Fujian and Guangdong coasts. The financial and other incentives to new settlers particularly drew the Hakka, who would have continuous low-level conflict with the returning Punti people for the next few centuries.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360945427#Events", "title": "1683 in China", "revid": 1360945427, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1821, "year_label": "1821 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Ruan Yuan, Governor General of Liangguang, expanded the Guangdong Gong Yuan examination hall to more than seven thousand six hundred examination cells", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1243749061#Events", "title": "1821 in China", "revid": 1243749061, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1848, "year_label": "1848 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "In January 1848, God-Worshipping Society leader, Feng Yunshan was arrested and banished to Guangdong by the local authorities.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1294999051#Events", "title": "1848 in China", "revid": 1294999051, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 2", "text": "October 2 – According to The Civil Aviation of China, two commercial planes collide on the runway at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, Guangdong, China. The total death toll is 128; 53 people were wounded, 97 were rescued.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#October", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2002, "year_label": "2002 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "November 16", "text": "November 16 – 2002–2004 SARS outbreak: The first case of the Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic, a zoonosis caused by a coronavirus, is recorded in Guangdong province of south China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372652846#November", "title": "2002", "revid": 1372652846, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 2003, "year_label": "2003 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "September 2", "text": "September 2 – Typhoon Dujuan makes landfall in Guangdong as a category 1 typhoon with sustained winds of 90 mph.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371470479#September", "title": "2003", "revid": 1371470479, "section": "Events › September"}}]}