{"slug": "kansas", "label": "Kansas", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kansas", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1558", "qid": "Q1558", "description": "state of the United States of America", "entries": 11, "years": 10, "span": [1601, 1991], "span_label": ["1601 CE", "1991 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 5}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 3}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "franklin-d-roosevelt", "label": "Franklin D. Roosevelt", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-states-senate", "label": "United States Senate", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "massachusetts", "label": "Massachusetts", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-states-house-of-representatives", "label": "United States House of Representatives", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "south-carolina", "label": "South Carolina", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "texas", "label": "Texas", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "minnesota", "label": "Minnesota", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "montana", "label": "Montana", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "nebraska", "label": "Nebraska", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "republican-party-united-states", "label": "Republican Party (United States)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "indiana", "label": "Indiana", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1601, "year_label": "1601 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "September 19", "text": "September 19 – The Juan de Oñate expedition of Spanish explorers first encounters the indigenous Escanjaque Indians in what is now the U.S. state of Kansas. The Escanjaques ask the Spaniards to assist them in a war against a rival tribe, the Rayados. Instead, Oñate befriends the Rayados five days later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369165918#July–September", "title": "1601", "revid": 1369165918, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1824, "year_label": "1824 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "Iowa tribe removed to a reservation in Kansas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370753720#Undated", "title": "1824 in the United States", "revid": 1370753720, "section": "Events › Undated"}}, {"year": 1838, "year_label": "1838 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "September 4", "text": "September 4 – Potawatomi Trail of Death, the forced relocation of 859 members of the Potawatomi nation from Indiana to Kansas, begins. More than 40 Potawatomi die from disease and the stress of the march.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1358511107#July–September", "title": "1838 in the United States", "revid": 1358511107, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1856, "year_label": "1856 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "May 22", "text": "May 22 – Congressman Preston Brooks of South Carolina beats Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts with a cane in the hall of the United States Senate, for a speech Sumner had made attacking Southerners who sympathized with the pro-slavery violence in Kansas (\"Bleeding Kansas\"). Sumner is unable to return to duty for 3 years while he recovers; Brooks becomes a hero across the South.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373775633#April–June", "title": "1856 in the United States", "revid": 1373775633, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1858, "year_label": "1858 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 19", "text": "May 19 – \"Bleeding Kansas: The Marais des Cygnes massacre is perpetrated by pro-slavery forces in the U.S. state of Kansas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371625769#April–June", "title": "1858", "revid": 1371625769, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1871, "year_label": "1871 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 17", "text": "June 17– The Parsons Sun newspaper in Parsons, Kansas is founded by Milton W. Reynolds and Leslie J. Perry, though the latter left after the first issue was published.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368649173#April–June", "title": "1871", "revid": 1368649173, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1881, "year_label": "1881 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "February 19", "text": "February 19 – Kansas becomes the first U.S. state to prohibit all alcoholic beverages.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369747876#February", "title": "1881", "revid": 1369747876, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1888, "year_label": "1888 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 12", "text": "January 12 – The Schoolhouse Blizzard hits Dakota Territory and the states of Montana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Kansas and Texas, leaving 235 dead, many of them children on their way home from school.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372679419#January", "title": "1888", "revid": 1372679419, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1936, "year_label": "1936 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "November 3", "text": "November 3 – 1936 United States presidential election: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term, in a landslide victory over Kansas Governor Alf Landon; farmers support Roosevelt.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373216494#November–December", "title": "1936", "revid": 1373216494, "section": "Events › November–December"}}, {"year": 1936, "year_label": "1936 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "November 3", "text": "November 3 – U.S. presidential election, 1936: Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Republican governor of Kansas Alf Landon.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373956397#October–December", "title": "1936 in the United States", "revid": 1373956397, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1991, "year_label": "1991 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "April 26", "text": "April 26 – A series of 55 tornadoes break out in the central U.S., killing 21. The most notable tornado strikes Andover, Kansas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371487470#April", "title": "1991", "revid": 1371487470, "section": "Events › April"}}]}