{"slug": "oscar-wilde", "label": "Oscar Wilde", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Wilde", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q30875", "qid": "Q30875", "description": "Irish poet, playwright, and aesthete (1854-1900)", "entries": 12, "years": 9, "span": [1854, 1900], "span_label": ["1854 CE", "1900 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 4}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [], "items": [{"year": 1854, "year_label": "1854 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "October 16", "text": "October 16 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (d. 1900)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362496011#October–December", "title": "1854", "revid": 1362496011, "section": "Births › October–December"}}, {"year": 1881, "year_label": "1881 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "June", "text": "June – Oscar Wilde's Poems published in London.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1276286892#Arts_and_literature", "title": "1881 in Ireland", "revid": 1276286892, "section": "Arts and literature"}}, {"year": 1882, "year_label": "1882 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 2", "text": "January 2 – Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in New York at the beginning of a lecture tour of the United States and Canada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360586433#January", "title": "1882", "revid": 1360586433, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1889, "year_label": "1889 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": null, "text": "Oscar Wilde published his dialogue, The Decay of Lying, and his story The Portrait of Mr. W. H..", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363469223#Arts_and_literature", "title": "1889 in Ireland", "revid": 1363469223, "section": "Arts and literature"}}, {"year": 1890, "year_label": "1890 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 20", "text": "June 20 – The Picture of Dorian Gray (by Oscar Wilde) is published by Philadelphia-based Lippincott's Monthly Magazine (dated July).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364071388#June", "title": "1890", "revid": 1364071388, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1895, "year_label": "1895 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "February 18", "text": "18 February – the Marquess of Queensberry (father of Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde's lover), leaves his calling card at the Albemarle Club in London, inscribed: \"For Oscar Wilde, posing somdomite\", i.e. a sodomite, inducing Wilde to charge him with criminal libel.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360422569#Events", "title": "1895 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1360422569, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1895, "year_label": "1895 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "April 6", "text": "April 6 – Oscar Wilde is arrested in London for \"gross indecency\", after losing a criminal libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364324653#April", "title": "1895", "revid": 1364324653, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1895, "year_label": "1895 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 25", "text": "May 25 – R. v. Wilde: Oscar Wilde is convicted in London of \"unlawfully committing acts of gross indecency with certain male persons\" (under the Labouchere Amendment) and given a two years' sentence of hard labour, during which he will write De Profundis.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364324653#May", "title": "1895", "revid": 1364324653, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1895, "year_label": "1895 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "May 25", "text": "25 May – Criminal case of Regina v. Wilde: After a retrial at the Old Bailey, Oscar Wilde is convicted of gross indecency and is taken to Pentonville Prison to begin his two years' sentence of hard labour. On 21 November he is transferred to Reading Gaol.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360422569#Events", "title": "1895 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1360422569, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1896, "year_label": "1896 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "February 11", "text": "February 11 – Oscar Wilde's play Salomé (1891) has its stage premiere (while Wilde is in prison) in its original French in Paris.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364785538#February", "title": "1896", "revid": 1364785538, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1897, "year_label": "1897 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 19", "text": "May 19 – Oscar Wilde is released from prison in England, and goes into voluntary exile on the continent.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362850810#May", "title": "1897", "revid": 1362850810, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1900, "year_label": "1900 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 30", "text": "November 30 – Oscar Wilde, Irish writer (b. 1854)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373317536#October–December", "title": "1900", "revid": 1373317536, "section": "Deaths › October–December"}}]}