{"slug": "mozambique", "label": "Mozambique", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozambique", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1029", "qid": "Q1029", "description": "country in Southeastern Africa; the current form of Mozambique since 1975", "entries": 24, "years": 19, "span": [900, 2023], "span_label": ["900 CE", "2023 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 5}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 4}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 3}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "south-african-republic", "label": "South African Republic", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "madagascar", "label": "Madagascar", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "lisbon", "label": "Lisbon", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "portuguese-people", "label": "Portuguese people", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "cape-colony", "label": "Cape Colony", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "colony-of-natal", "label": "Colony of Natal", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "tanzania", "label": "Tanzania", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "zambia", "label": "Zambia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "india", "label": "India", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "iran", "label": "Iran", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "islam", "label": "Islam", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "africa", "label": "Africa", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 900, "year_label": "900 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "The east coast of Africa is impacted by trade and Arab, Persian and Indian traders mix with the indigenous Bantu. Many of the coastal Bantu adopt Islam, reaching as far south as Sofala (Mozambique).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364042634#Commerce", "title": "900", "revid": 1364042634, "section": "Events › By topic › Commerce"}}, {"year": 1498, "year_label": "1498 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "March 2", "text": "March 2 – Vasco da Gama visits Quelimane and Mozambique, in southeastern Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363338704#January–March", "title": "1498", "revid": 1363338704, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1552, "year_label": "1552 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "June 24", "text": "June 24 – The Portuguese ship São João is wrecked off of the coast of South Africa. While 480 people survive initially, all but 25 of them die during the next 165 days while trying to reach the mouth of the Maputo River in what is now Mozambique.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364394581#April–June", "title": "1552", "revid": 1364394581, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1575, "year_label": "1575 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "November 22", "text": "November 22 – Portuguese navigator Manuel de Mesquita Perestrelo departs from Mozambique on a mission for to map the coastline, completing the task on March 13.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362481402#October–December", "title": "1575", "revid": 1362481402, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1730, "year_label": "1730 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 27", "text": "December 27 – The Dutch East India Company ends an almost 11-year effort of trying to maintain a colony around Delagoa Bay in southern Africa in modern-day Mozambique. The entire population of the settlement, Fort Lydzammheid (near modern-day Maputo) is evacuated by the ships Snuffelaar, Zeepost and Feyenoord and the group returns to Cape Town.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369560881#October–December", "title": "1730", "revid": 1369560881, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1844, "year_label": "1844 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Voortrekker leader Hendrik Potgieter settles at Delagoa Bay, Mozambique", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368952084#Events", "title": "1844 in South Africa", "revid": 1368952084, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1891, "year_label": "1891 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 28", "text": "28 December – Transvaal – Mozambique border near Komatipoort to Malelane, 33 mi.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1269184736#Railway_lines_opened", "title": "1891 in South Africa", "revid": 1269184736, "section": "Railways › Railway lines opened"}}, {"year": 1895, "year_label": "1895 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 11", "text": "June 11 – Britain annexes Tongaland, between Zululand and Mozambique.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364324653#June", "title": "1895", "revid": 1364324653, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1895, "year_label": "1895 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "December 15", "text": "December 15 – The railways of the Cape of Good Hope, Colony of Natal, the Orange Free State, the South African Republic and southern Mozambique are all linked at Union Junction near Alberton.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364324653#December", "title": "1895", "revid": 1364324653, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1895, "year_label": "1895 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "December 15", "text": "December 15 – The railways of the Cape Colony, Natal, the Orange Free State, the South African Republic and southern Mozambique are all linked at Union Junction near Alberton, completing the logistics supply lines for the British military invasion of the Boer Republics in the Second Boer War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323614550", "title": "1895 in South Africa", "revid": 1323614550, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1897, "year_label": "1897 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The independent Pretoria-Pietersburg Railway in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (Transvaal Republic) purchases a 4-6-0 35 Tonner tank locomotive named Portuguese from the Lourenco Marques, Delagoa Bay and East Africa Railway in Mozambique.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1326928300#Locomotives", "title": "1897 in South Africa", "revid": 1326928300, "section": "Railways › Locomotives"}}, {"year": 1911, "year_label": "1911 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "April 18", "text": "April 18 – SS Lusitania, a 5,557-ton Portuguese passenger liner en route from Mozambique to Lisbon, strikes Bellows Rock just off Cape Point and sinks.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373497014#April", "title": "1911", "revid": 1373497014, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1911, "year_label": "1911 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "April 18", "text": "April 18 – Lusitania, a Portuguese 5,557 ton passenger liner, strikes Bellows Rock just off Cape Point en route from Mozambique to Lisbon and sinks. Only 8 out of the 774 people on board lose their lives.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345723480", "title": "1911 in South Africa", "revid": 1345723480, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1975, "year_label": "1975 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 16", "text": "September 16 – Cape Verde, Mozambique and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369955775#September", "title": "1975", "revid": 1369955775, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 1976, "year_label": "1976 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 9", "text": "August 9 – The Selous Scouts of the Rhodesian Army conduct a cross-border raid into Nyadzonya, Mozambique in Operation Eland, an action that led to severe political and diplomatic consequences on Rhodesia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372603253#August", "title": "1976", "revid": 1372603253, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1992, "year_label": "1992 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 4", "text": "October 4 – The government of Mozambique signs the Rome General Peace Accords with leaders of RENAMO, ending the 16-year-old Mozambican Civil War.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368521010#October", "title": "1992", "revid": 1368521010, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2000, "year_label": "2000 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "February", "text": "Tropical Cyclone Eline brings heavy rains to Mozambique, South Africa, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Zambia, Malawi and Madagascar.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1311386454", "title": "2000 in South Africa", "revid": 1311386454, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 2000, "year_label": "2000 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "February 9", "text": "February 9 – Torrential rains in Africa led to the worst flooding in Mozambique in 50 years, which lasts until March and kills 800 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371541477#February", "title": "2000", "revid": 1371541477, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 2008, "year_label": "2008 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "June 1", "text": "June 1 – 18-year-old Pamela Jelimo runs a new women's 800 metres African Record. The previous one was held by Maria de Lurdes Mutola of Mozambique.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371399178#April_-_June", "title": "2008 in Kenya", "revid": 1371399178, "section": "Sports › April - June"}}, {"year": 2016, "year_label": "2016 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "September 1", "text": "September 1 – An annular solar eclipse was visible from Gabon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Mozambique and Madagascar.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373421880#September", "title": "2016", "revid": 1373421880, "section": "Events › September"}}, {"year": 2019, "year_label": "2019 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March 15", "text": "March 15 – Cyclone Idai makes landfall on Mozambique, causing at least 1,073 fatalities, as well as mass flooding and power outages in southern Africa.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373255188#March", "title": "2019", "revid": 1373255188, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "January 23", "text": "January 23 – Tropical Storm Ana kills 115 people in Madagascar, Malawi and Mozambique, days after a series of floods killed 11 people in Madagascar.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371998228#January", "title": "2022", "revid": 1371998228, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2022, "year_label": "2022 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "March 24", "text": "24 March – The World Health Organization announces that a polio vaccination campaign will begin in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1315159988#March", "title": "2022 in Malawi", "revid": 1315159988, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 2023, "year_label": "2023 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March 11", "text": "March 11 – Cyclone Freddy hits Mozambique, causing floods, infrastructure damage, and at least five deaths.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1309321163#March", "title": "2023 in Mozambique", "revid": 1309321163, "section": "Events › March"}}]}