{"slug": "liberia", "label": "Liberia", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberia", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1014", "qid": "Q1014", "description": "sovereign state in West Africa", "entries": 17, "years": 16, "span": [1820, 2021], "span_label": ["1820 CE", "2021 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 2}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Republic of Liberia"], "related": [{"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-kingdom", "label": "United Kingdom", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "persian-gulf", "label": "Persian Gulf", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "foreign-secretary-united-kingdom", "label": "Foreign Secretary (United Kingdom)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "african-americans", "label": "African Americans", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sierra-leone", "label": "Sierra Leone", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1820, "year_label": "1820 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "February 6", "text": "February 6 – A group of 86 free African American colonists sail from New York City to Freetown, Sierra Leone, with a goal of creating a home for freed American slaves, to be called \"Liberia\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368795492#January–March", "title": "1820", "revid": 1368795492, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1821, "year_label": "1821 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "History of Liberia – The first groups of freed slaves from the U.S. arrive in modern-day Liberia and found Monrovia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369766679#Events", "title": "1821 in the United States", "revid": 1369766679, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1822, "year_label": "1822 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "April 25", "text": "April 25 – The American Colonization Society lands at Cape Mesurado on the West African coast, after purchasing 60 mi of coastline. The settlement will soon become Monrovia, as the nation of Liberia is established to fill the ACS mission of freeing black American slaves and sending them \"back to Africa\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367154222#April–June", "title": "1822", "revid": 1367154222, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1847, "year_label": "1847 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 26", "text": "July 26 – The nation of Liberia, founded as a haven for freed African-American slaves, becomes independent.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362575777#July–September", "title": "1847", "revid": 1362575777, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1848, "year_label": "1848 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 3", "text": "January 3 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts is sworn in as the first president of the independent African Republic of Liberia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370038858#January–March", "title": "1848", "revid": 1370038858, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1857, "year_label": "1857 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Liberia annexes the Republic of Maryland as native groups (notably Grebo people and Kru people) continually attack and kill settlers in Cape Palmas.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366379985#Date_unknown", "title": "1857", "revid": 1366379985, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1882, "year_label": "1882 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 20", "text": "March 20 – British gunboats enter Monrovia, with Arthur Havelock demanding that Liberia cede disputed territory to the British colony of Sierra Leone, of which he is Governor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360586433#March", "title": "1882", "revid": 1360586433, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1980, "year_label": "1980 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 12", "text": "April 12 – 1980 Liberian coup d'état: Samuel K. Doe overthrows the government of Liberia in a violent coup d'état, executing President William Tolbert and ending over 130 years of democratic presidential succession in that country.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363797378#April", "title": "1980", "revid": 1363797378, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1993, "year_label": "1993 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "January 5", "text": "January 5 – MV Braer, a Liberian-registered oil tanker, runs aground off the Scottish island of Mainland, Shetland, causing a massive oil spill.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366430372#January", "title": "1993", "revid": 1366430372, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1996, "year_label": "1996 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – First Liberian Civil War: fighting breaks out in Monrovia, Liberia, between various rebel factions struggling for power in the country's interrupted civil war. Several foreign nationals leave the nation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371596794#April", "title": "1996", "revid": 1371596794, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2007, "year_label": "2007 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June", "text": "June 2007, Bo Waterside, a key border crossing on the Mano River, re-opens for the first time since 1990 allowing increased traffic between Sierra Leone and Liberia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267493329#June", "title": "2007 in Sierra Leone", "revid": 1267493329, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 2010, "year_label": "2010 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 8", "text": "December 8 - Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf warns former rebel fighters not to get involved in the crisis in Côte d'Ivoire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370234286#December", "title": "2010 in Ivory Coast", "revid": 1370234286, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 2011, "year_label": "2011 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "January", "text": "Thousands of refugees flee Ivory Coast to neighbouring countries; at least 18,000 of them to Liberia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1309089977#January", "title": "2011 in Ivory Coast", "revid": 1309089977, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2011, "year_label": "2011 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March 6", "text": "March 6 - Fighting erupts in western Ivory Coast between rebels and forces loyal to incumbent President Laurent Gbagbo, with injured people crossing into Liberia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1309089977#March", "title": "2011 in Ivory Coast", "revid": 1309089977, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 2012, "year_label": "2012 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 25", "text": "April 25 – Former Liberian President Charles Taylor is found guilty on 11 counts of aiding and abetting war crimes and crimes against humanity during the Sierra Leone Civil War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373434549#April", "title": "2012", "revid": 1373434549, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2019, "year_label": "2019 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 19", "text": "July 19 – The Iranian Navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps captures British tanker Stena Impero and temporarily seizes British-operated and Liberian-flagged tanker Mesdar in the Persian Gulf. The British Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, warns there will be \"serious consequences\" if Iran does not release the tanker.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373255188#July", "title": "2019", "revid": 1373255188, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2021, "year_label": "2021 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 30", "text": "30 July - A Liberian-flagged tanker ship was struck by a drone attack off the coast of Oman, killing two crew members.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1266138796#Events", "title": "2021 in Oman", "revid": 1266138796, "section": "Events"}}]}