{"slug": "lord-mayor-of-london", "label": "Lord Mayor of London", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Mayor_of_London", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q73341", "qid": "Q73341", "description": "mayor of the City of London and leader of the City of London Corporation", "entries": 14, "years": 14, "span": [1135, 1888], "span_label": ["1135 CE", "1888 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "london", "label": "London", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "oliver-cromwell", "label": "Oliver Cromwell", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lord-protector", "label": "Lord Protector", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "east-india-company", "label": "East India Company", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "anglicanism", "label": "Anglicanism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "moors", "label": "Moors", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "elizabeth-i", "label": "Elizabeth I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "london-bridge", "label": "London Bridge", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mary-i", "label": "Mary I", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1135, "year_label": "1135 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Henry Fitz Eylwin, 1st Lord Mayor of London (d. 1212)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369184463#Births", "title": "1135", "revid": 1369184463, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1212, "year_label": "1212 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 19", "text": "September 19 – Henry fitz Ailwin, Lord Mayor of London", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1354428304#Deaths", "title": "1212", "revid": 1354428304, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1264, "year_label": "1264 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "May", "text": "May – Simon de Montfort marches on London but the drawbridge on London Bridge has been raised by the Lord Mayor. Simon has the support of the Londoners, who manage to lower the bridge allowing him into the city. Henry III is forced to pardon the rebel nobles and reinstates the Provisions of Oxford. With Henry's power diminished, Simon announces that all debts owed to the Jews would be canceled.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334426011#British_Isles", "title": "1264", "revid": 1334426011, "section": "Events › By place › British Isles"}}, {"year": 1380, "year_label": "1380 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": null, "text": "Sir William Walworth, a member of the Fishmongers Guild, becomes Lord Mayor of London for the second time.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360515041#Date_unknown", "title": "1380", "revid": 1360515041, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1381, "year_label": "1381 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 14", "text": "October 14 – Fishmonger John Northampton is elected as Lord Mayor of London to succeed Sir William Walworth, who had retired after suppressing Wat Tyler's rebellion.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365430794#October–December", "title": "1381", "revid": 1365430794, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1384, "year_label": "1384 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 7", "text": "February 7 – Nicholas Brembre, Lord Mayor of London after defeating John Northampton's bid for re-election, arranges to have Northampton arrested on charges of sedition.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369176313#January–March", "title": "1384", "revid": 1369176313, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1397, "year_label": "1397 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "October 13", "text": "October 13 – Richard Whittington, Lord Mayor of London since June 8 when he was chosen by King Richard II following the June 6 death of the Lord Mayor Adam Bamme, is overwhelmingly approved by London's freemen to serve permanently after Whittington had negotiated a deal to settle its debt to the King for £10,000.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363907908#July–December", "title": "1397", "revid": 1363907908, "section": "Events › July–December"}}, {"year": 1406, "year_label": "1406 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "October 13", "text": "October 13 – Richard Whittington is elected Lord Mayor of London for a second full term. He holds this office simultaneously, with that of Mayor of the Calais Staple.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357536622#October–December", "title": "1406", "revid": 1357536622, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1553, "year_label": "1553 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "July 19", "text": "July 19 – The Lord Mayor of London proclaims Mary I the rightful Queen, following a change of allegiance by the Privy Council; Lady Jane Grey voluntarily abdicates.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362480437#July–September", "title": "1553", "revid": 1362480437, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1596, "year_label": "1596 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 18", "text": "July 18 – Queen Elizabeth I of England issues \"an open warrant to the Lord Mayor of London and the aldermen and his brethren, and to all other vice-admirals, mayors, and other public officers whatsoever to whom it may appertain\" directing that Africans in the realm will be deported. Citing a request from Casper van Senden \"to have licence to take up so many blackamoors here in this realm and to transport them into Spain and Portugal,\" the Queen notes that \"Her majesty... considering the reasonableness of his request to transport so many blackamoors from hence, doth think it a very good exchange and that those kind of people may be well spared in this realm being so populous and numbers of able persons the subjects of the land and Christian people that perish for want of service, whereby through their labor they might be maintained.\"", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369722581#July–September", "title": "1596", "revid": 1369722581, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "December 22", "text": "December 22 – An Indian youth (called one of \"the first fruits of India\") is baptized with the name \"Peter\" in London at the St. Dionis Backchurch, in a ceremony attended by the Lord Mayor, the Privy Council, city aldermen, and officials of the Honourable East India Company. Peter thus becomes the first convert to the Anglican Church in India. He returns to India as a missionary, schooled in English and Latin.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#November-December", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › November-December"}}, {"year": 1656, "year_label": "1656 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 23", "text": "February 23 – London's Lord Mayor Christopher Packe suggests to Oliver Cromwell, the Lord Protector and chief executive of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland, that the monarchy should be restored with Cromwell as its King. Cromwell declines to become King Oliver, but his right to name his successor becomes effective on May 25, 1657 with the commencement of the Humble Petition and Advice.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372048661#January–March", "title": "1656", "revid": 1372048661, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1780, "year_label": "1780 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "September 29", "text": "29 September - Sir Watkin Lewes is elected Lord Mayor of London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360220672#Events", "title": "1780 in Wales", "revid": 1360220672, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1888, "year_label": "1888 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "26-27 August – Polydore de Keyser, Lord Mayor of London, visits Dendermonde", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1319814282#Events", "title": "1888 in Belgium", "revid": 1319814282, "section": "Events"}}]}