{"slug": "isle-of-wight", "label": "Isle of Wight", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isle_of_Wight", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9679", "qid": "Q9679", "description": "island, county and unitary authority area of England, United Kingdom", "entries": 20, "years": 17, "span": [296, 1957], "span_label": ["296 CE", "1957 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 3}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "hampshire", "label": "Hampshire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "rome", "label": "Rome", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ine-of-wessex", "label": "Ine of Wessex", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cdwalla", "label": "Cædwalla", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "franks", "label": "Franks", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "seine", "label": "Seine", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "maximian", "label": "Maximian", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "boulogne-sur-mer", "label": "Boulogne-sur-Mer", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "constantius-chlorus", "label": "Constantius Chlorus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "praetorian-prefect", "label": "Praetorian prefect", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "carausius", "label": "Carausius", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 296, "year_label": "296 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In this or the previous year, Caesar Constantius I assembles two invasion fleets with the intent of overthrowing the usurper Allectus, who is based in Britain. The first is under the command of Asclepiodotus, Maximian's long-serving Praetorian Prefect. Asclepiodotus sails from the mouth of the Seine, and lands near the Isle of Wight, where his forces defeat Allectus in Hampshire. Allectus is killed in the fighting. Constantius leaves Boulogne with his fleet, and occupies London, where he slaughters some of Allectus' Frankish mercenaries. With this victory, the Romano-British regime first established by Carausius is overthrown, and Britain is re-incorporated into the rest of the empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267076673#Roman_Empire", "title": "296", "revid": 1267076673, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 661, "year_label": "661 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "King Wulfhere of Mercia and his army harry the Berkshire Downs (south of Thame) and move south to conquer the Meonwara and the Isle of Wight.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804600#Britain", "title": "661", "revid": 1340804600, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 686, "year_label": "686 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Cædwalla conquers Surrey, and tries to exterminate the Jutes of the Isle of Wight. He executes King Arwald and his two brothers. Cædwalla probably also overruns the Meonware, a Jutish people who live in the Meon Valley (Hampshire).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367994465#Britain", "title": "686", "revid": 1367994465, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 686, "year_label": "686 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Arwald, king of the Isle of Wight", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367994465#Deaths", "title": "686", "revid": 1367994465, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 688, "year_label": "688 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "King Caedwalla of Wessex abdicates the throne and departs on a pilgrimage to Rome, possibly because of the wounds he suffered while fighting on the Isle of Wight. The power vacuum is filled by Ine, son of his second cousin, sub-king Coenred of Dorset.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806290#Britain", "title": "688", "revid": 1340806290, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1006, "year_label": "1006 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Summer–Autumn – Danish Viking raiders led by Sweyn Forkbeard raid south-eastern England from the Isle of Wight to Reading in the Thames Valley where they overwinter at the Wallingford river crossing.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1344800605#Europe", "title": "1006", "revid": 1344800605, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1100, "year_label": "1100 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Henry I of England grants the ownership of Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight to Richard de Redvers, a Norman nobleman.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365265768#Europe", "title": "1100", "revid": 1365265768, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1293, "year_label": "1293 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "The Isle of Wight is sold to King Edward I of England by Isabella de Forz, Countess of Devon, on her deathbed, for 6,000 marks.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350578384#Europe", "title": "1293", "revid": 1350578384, "section": "Events › By area › Europe"}}, {"year": 1313, "year_label": "1313 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "April 22", "text": "April 22 – On the first Sunday after Easter, the French ship Ste Marie is shipwrecked on England's Isle of Wight at Chale Bay. Residents nearby loot the ship of its cargo, casks of wine belonging to Regimus de Depe of Aquitaine. As an act of penance, the Lord of Chale, Walder de Godeton, builds the St Catherine's Oratory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361694602#April_–_June", "title": "1313", "revid": 1361694602, "section": "Events › April – June"}}, {"year": 1403, "year_label": "1403 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 12", "text": "December 12 – Local English forces defeat an attempted French raid on the Isle of Wight under Waleran III, Count of Ligny.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371593649#October–December", "title": "1403", "revid": 1371593649, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1545, "year_label": "1545 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 18", "text": "July 18– The Battle of the Solent begins between the English and French navies in The Solent, the strait between the British mainland and the Isle of Wight.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366653612#July–September", "title": "1545", "revid": 1366653612, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1648, "year_label": "1648 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "December 1", "text": "1 December – the King, under arrest, is moved from the Isle of Wight to Hurst Castle on the mainland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354833654#Events", "title": "1648 in England", "revid": 1354833654, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1764, "year_label": "1764 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "The rock pillar called \"Lot's Wife\" amongst The Needles off the Isle of Wight collapses into the sea during a storm.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1374050715#Undated", "title": "1764 in Great Britain", "revid": 1374050715, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1779, "year_label": "1779 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 31", "text": "December 31 – Affair of Fielding and Bylandt: Following a brief naval engagement between the British and Dutch off the Isle of Wight, the Dutch merchantmen and naval vessels are captured and taken to Portsmouth, England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370567590#October–December", "title": "1779", "revid": 1370567590, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1779, "year_label": "1779 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 31", "text": "31 December – Affair of Fielding and Bylandt, a brief naval engagement with the Dutch off the Isle of Wight.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350799745#Events", "title": "1779 in Great Britain", "revid": 1350799745, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1826, "year_label": "1826 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "August 10", "text": "10 August – The first Cowes Regatta is held on the Isle of Wight.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341940675#Events", "title": "1826 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1341940675, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1826, "year_label": "1826 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "August 10", "text": "August 10 – The first Cowes Regatta is held in the Isle of Wight, in the U.K.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373386632#July–September", "title": "1826", "revid": 1373386632, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1878, "year_label": "1878 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 24", "text": "24 March – the Royal Navy frigate HMS Eurydice capsizes off the Isle of Wight, killing all but two of the 319 crew.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365304990#Events", "title": "1878 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1365304990, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1901, "year_label": "1901 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "January 22", "text": "January 22 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom dies at Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. She is 81 years old and, having ruled for nearly 64 years, will be the second longest-reigning monarch in British history. Her eldest son, Prince Albert Edward, \"Bertie\", the longest-serving Prince of Wales to this time, succeeds his mother at the age of 59, reigning as King Edward VII, of the United Kingdom and in innovation the British Dominions and also becoming Emperor of India.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373318021#January", "title": "1901", "revid": 1373318021, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1957, "year_label": "1957 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "November 15", "text": "November 15 – 1957 Aquila Airways Solent crash: A flying boat crash on the Isle of Wight leaves 45 dead.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371361971#November", "title": "1957", "revid": 1371361971, "section": "Events › November"}}]}