{"slug": "irish-sea", "label": "Irish Sea", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irish_Sea", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q41735", "qid": "Q41735", "description": "sea that separates the islands of Ireland and Great Britain", "entries": 19, "years": 15, "span": [615, 2002], "span_label": ["615 CE", "2002 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 5}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 2}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "ireland", "label": "Ireland", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "anglesey", "label": "Anglesey", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "seven-years-war", "label": "Seven Years' War", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "scotland", "label": "Scotland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "northern-ireland", "label": "Northern Ireland", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "dublin", "label": "Dublin", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "barbados", "label": "Barbados", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "queen-victoria", "label": "Queen Victoria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "manchester", "label": "Manchester", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anglo-saxons", "label": "Anglo-Saxons", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-powys", "label": "Kingdom of Powys", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "thelfrith", "label": "Æthelfrith", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 615, "year_label": "615 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Bangor Massacre: The Anglo-Saxons, under King Æthelfrith of Northumbria, after defeating the Kingdom of Powys, finally reach the Irish Sea and massacre 1,200 Christian monks at their monastery, in Bangor (Wales).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364752554#Britain", "title": "615", "revid": 1364752554, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 973, "year_label": "973 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Edgar I marches with his army north to Chester. His navy meets him there via the Irish Sea. This show of strength persuades the 'Northern Kings' to submit to his overlordship (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354273404#Britain", "title": "973", "revid": 1354273404, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1166, "year_label": "1166 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Diarmait Mac Murchada, King of Leinster, is driven from his kingdom by Tigernán Ua Ruairc and Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair across the Irish Sea, seeks the help of Henry II of England and recruits Norman knights.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247814138#Events", "title": "1166 in Ireland", "revid": 1247814138, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1637, "year_label": "1637 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "August 10", "text": "August 10 – Edward King is drowned in the Irish Sea en route to visiting his family in Ireland, an event which inspires fellow poet Milton's elegy Lycidas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247387954#Events", "title": "1637 in Ireland", "revid": 1247387954, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1758, "year_label": "1758 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "October 27", "text": "27 October – the ship Dublin Trader (Captain White) leaves Parkgate, Cheshire, for Dublin, and founders in the Irish Sea; she carries 70,000 Irish pounds in money and £80,000 in goods, while among the 60 passengers lost are Edward, fifth Earl of Drogheda, Theophilus Cibber (the English actor, bound for a season at the Smock Alley Theatre), and (probably) the mezzotint engraver Michael Ford.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1338994794#Events", "title": "1758 in Ireland", "revid": 1338994794, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1760, "year_label": "1760 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 21", "text": "February 21–26 – Seven Years' War: Battle of Carrickfergus in the north of Ireland – A force of French troops, under the command of privateer François Thurot, captures and holds the town and castle of Carrickfergus before retiring; the force is defeated (and Thurot killed) in the naval Battle of Bishops Court in the Irish Sea on February 28.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358844484#January–March", "title": "1760", "revid": 1358844484, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1785, "year_label": "1785 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "January 19", "text": "19 January – Richard Crosbie successfully flies in a hot air balloon from Ranelagh Gardens to Clontarf. He goes on to makes several unsuccessful attempts to cross the Irish Sea in a hydrogen-filled balloon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247385518#Events", "title": "1785 in Ireland", "revid": 1247385518, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1806, "year_label": "1806 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 9", "text": "9 January - The ship Cecelia, on a voyage from Dublin to Barbados, founders in the Irish Sea off Holyhead, Anglesey, with the loss of all hands.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360284081#Events", "title": "1806 in Wales", "revid": 1360284081, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1806, "year_label": "1806 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 1", "text": "1 October - The brig Mary runs aground on the Arklow Bank, in the Irish Sea and is wrecked with the loss of seven of the ten people on board. Two of the survivors are rescued by Mary, a ship homeported in Liverpool, Lancashire, whilst the third is rescued by Mary, a ship homeported in Amlwch, Anglesey.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360284081#Events", "title": "1806 in Wales", "revid": 1360284081, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1812, "year_label": "1812 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "October 1", "text": "1 October - Balloonist James Sadler flies over the north Wales coastline in an unsuccessful attempt to cross the Irish Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361989818#Events", "title": "1812 in Wales", "revid": 1361989818, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1812, "year_label": "1812 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 1", "text": "1 October – English balloonist James Sadler starts a balloon flight from Belvedere House near Mullingar in an attempt to cross the Irish Sea. He fails and almost drowns as a result.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247385073#Events", "title": "1812 in Ireland", "revid": 1247385073, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1843, "year_label": "1843 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March 17", "text": "17 March – earthquake in the Irish Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1247384539#Events", "title": "1843 in Ireland", "revid": 1247384539, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1894, "year_label": "1894 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May 21", "text": "May 21 – The Manchester Ship Canal and Docks are officially opened by Queen Victoria, linking the previously landlocked industrial city of Manchester, in north-west England, to the Irish Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369810485#May", "title": "1894", "revid": 1369810485, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1910, "year_label": "1910 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "September 11", "text": "11 September - English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine makes an aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea, landing some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342189159#Events", "title": "1910 in Wales", "revid": 1342189159, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1910, "year_label": "1910 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "September 11", "text": "11 September – English-born actor-aviator Robert Loraine made an aeroplane flight from Wales across the Irish Sea but landed some 200 feet (60 metres) short of the Irish coast in Dublin Bay.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341667422#Events", "title": "1910 in Ireland", "revid": 1341667422, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1953, "year_label": "1953 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 31", "text": "31 January – The car ferry MV Princess Victoria sailing from Stranraer, Scotland to Larne, Northern Ireland, sinks in the Irish Sea killing 133 people on board. The dead include Northern Ireland Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Major Maynard Sinclair and Sir Walter Smiles, the Ulster Unionist MP for North Down.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326616844#Events", "title": "1953 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1326616844, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1953, "year_label": "1953 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 31", "text": "January 31–February 1 – The North Sea flood of 1953 kills 1,836 people in the southwestern Netherlands (especially Zeeland), 307 in the United Kingdom, and several hundred at sea, including 133 on the ferry MV Princess Victoria in the Irish Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371310369#January", "title": "1953", "revid": 1371310369, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1987, "year_label": "1987 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 22", "text": "October 22 – The pilot of a British Aerospace BAE Harrier GR5 registered ZD325 accidentally ejects from his aircraft. The jet continues to fly until it runs out of fuel and crashes into the Irish Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372769014#October", "title": "1987", "revid": 1372769014, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2002, "year_label": "2002 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "February 14", "text": "14 February – Kilkeel fishing boat The Tullaghmurray Lass is lost with all three crew in the Irish Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368230095#Events", "title": "2002 in Northern Ireland", "revid": 1368230095, "section": "Events"}}]}