{"slug": "isles-of-scilly", "label": "Isles of Scilly", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isles_of_Scilly", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q180209", "qid": "Q180209", "description": "archipelago and local government district off the south-westernmost point of mainland Britain", "entries": 11, "years": 9, "span": [1695, 1986], "span_label": ["1695 CE", "1986 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 8}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Scilly Isles"], "related": [{"slug": "royal-navy", "label": "Royal Navy", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "netherlands", "label": "Netherlands", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "cornwall", "label": "Cornwall", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1695, "year_label": "1695 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 14", "text": "January 14 (January 4 O.S.) – The Royal Navy warship HMS Nonsuch is captured near England's Isles of Scilly by the 48-gun French privateer Le Francois. Nonsuch is then sold to the French Navy and renamed Le Sans Pareil.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368691153#January–March", "title": "1695", "revid": 1368691153, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1707, "year_label": "1707 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 22", "text": "October 22 – Scilly naval disaster: Four British Royal Navy ships run aground in the Isles of Scilly, because of faulty navigation. Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and at least 1,450 sailors all drown.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346936133#October–_December", "title": "1707", "revid": 1346936133, "section": "Events › October– December"}}, {"year": 1707, "year_label": "1707 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "October 22", "text": "22 October – Scilly naval disaster: Four Royal Navy ships, including HMS Association, run aground in the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation – Admiral Sir Cloudesley Shovell and at least 1450 sailors are drowned.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1320244983#Events", "title": "1707 in Great Britain", "revid": 1320244983, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1743, "year_label": "1743 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 13", "text": "July 13 – All 276 people on board the Dutch East India Company ship Hollandia drown after the ship strikes a rock off of the Isles of Scilly in England near Cornwall. The wreckage is located in 1971.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360887949#July–September", "title": "1743", "revid": 1360887949, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1855, "year_label": "1855 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "The island of Samson, in the Isles of Scilly, is depopulated.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351923063#Undated", "title": "1855 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1351923063, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1875, "year_label": "1875 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "May 7", "text": "May 7 – German liner SS Schiller wrecks on the rocks off the Isles of Scilly, with the loss of 335 lives.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371928758#May", "title": "1875", "revid": 1371928758, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1875, "year_label": "1875 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "May 7", "text": "7 May – German liner SS Schiller is wrecked on rocks off the Isles of Scilly with the loss of 311 lives.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360550767#Events", "title": "1875 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1360550767, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1907, "year_label": "1907 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "December 14", "text": "December 14 – The largest sailing ship ever built, the 7-masted U.S.-owned Thomas W. Lawson, is wrecked in the Isles of Scilly.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373349351#December", "title": "1907", "revid": 1373349351, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 18", "text": "March 18 – Torrey Canyon oil spill: The supertanker SS Torrey Canyon runs aground between Land's End and the Scilly Isles off the coast of Britain, causing the biggest oil spill in history up to that point.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370160888#March", "title": "1967", "revid": 1370160888, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1983, "year_label": "1983 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 16", "text": "July 16 – Sikorsky S-61 disaster: A helicopter crashes off the Isles of Scilly, causing 20 fatalities.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366392977#July", "title": "1983", "revid": 1366392977, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1986, "year_label": "1986 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "April 17", "text": "April 17 – An alleged state of war lasting 335 years between the Netherlands and the Isles of Scilly declared peace, bringing an end to any hypothetical war that may have existed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373510075#April", "title": "1986", "revid": 1373510075, "section": "Events › April"}}]}