{"slug": "senegal", "label": "Senegal", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senegal", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1041", "qid": "Q1041", "description": "country on the coast of West Africa", "entries": 22, "years": 18, "span": [1062, 2018], "span_label": ["1062 CE", "2018 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 6}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 5}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 4}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "mali", "label": "Mali", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "spain", "label": "Spain", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "morocco", "label": "Morocco", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "almoravid-dynasty", "label": "Almoravid dynasty", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "portugal", "label": "Portugal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "new-orleans", "label": "New Orleans", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "uganda", "label": "Uganda", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "zaire", "label": "Zaire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mali-empire", "label": "Mali Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "french-guiana", "label": "French Guiana", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "french-colonial-empire", "label": "French colonial empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "guinea", "label": "Guinea", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1062, "year_label": "1062 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The Almoravids overrun modern-day Morocco, and establish an intercontinental kingdom, stretching from Spain to Senegal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1361243522#Africa", "title": "1062", "revid": 1361243522, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 1374, "year_label": "1374 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Musa II succeeds his father, Mari Djata II, as Mansa of the Mali Empire (modern-day Mali and Senegal).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369753981#Date_unknown", "title": "1374", "revid": 1369753981, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1390, "year_label": "1390 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "N'Diklam Sare succeeds Sare N'Dyaye, as ruler of the Jolof Empire (now part of Senegal).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371631980#Date_unknown", "title": "1390", "revid": 1371631980, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1446, "year_label": "1446 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Portuguese navigator Álvaro Fernandes reaches the mouth of the Casamance River in Senegal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360566332#Date_unknown", "title": "1446", "revid": 1360566332, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1446, "year_label": "1446 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Nuno Tristão is killed by natives on the coast of Senegal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360566332#Date_unknown", "title": "1446", "revid": 1360566332, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1624, "year_label": "1624 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "French colonial empire: Coastal trading settlements established in French Guiana and Senegal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737006#Events", "title": "1624 in France", "revid": 1353737006, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1633, "year_label": "1633 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "June 24", "text": "June 24 – The Compagnie normande (compagnie Rozée) obtains a 1-year monopoly of trade with Cape Verde, Senegal, The Gambia and (from 14 January 1634) Guinea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737072#Events", "title": "1633 in France", "revid": 1353737072, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1670, "year_label": "1670 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The first French settlers arrive on the Petite Côte of modern-day Senegal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368809725#Date_unknown", "title": "1670", "revid": 1368809725, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1670, "year_label": "1670 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "The first French settlers arrive at the Petite Côte of modern-day Senegal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353737403#Events", "title": "1670 in France", "revid": 1353737403, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1726, "year_label": "1726 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 29", "text": "March 29 – The first large shipment of slaves is brought to New Orleans as the slave ship L'Aurore arrives with 290 black Africans captured in Gambia. During the 90-day voyage from Gorée in Senegal, 60 of the slaves have died.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372345509#January–March", "title": "1726", "revid": 1372345509, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1816, "year_label": "1816 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 2", "text": "July 2 – The French frigate Medusa runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363267979#July–September", "title": "1816", "revid": 1363267979, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1816, "year_label": "1816 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "July 2", "text": "2 July – French frigate Méduse (1810) runs aground off the coast of Senegal, with 140 lives lost in the botched rescue that takes weeks, leading to a scandal in the French government.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1331878546#Events", "title": "1816 in France", "revid": 1331878546, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1922, "year_label": "1922 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "L'Action sénégalaise weekly newspaper is founded in Senegal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369983934#Date_unknown", "title": "1922", "revid": 1369983934, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 20", "text": "June 20 – The short-lived Mali Federation, consisting of the Sudanese Republic (modern-day Republic of Mali) and Senegal, gains independence from France.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#June", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1960, "year_label": "1960 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 20", "text": "August 20 – Senegal breaks away from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371870774#August", "title": "1960", "revid": 1371870774, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1963, "year_label": "1963 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "May 4", "text": "May 4 – The Le Monde Theater fire in Dioirbel, Senegal, kills 64 people.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370539540#May", "title": "1963", "revid": 1370539540, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1976, "year_label": "1976 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "August 14", "text": "August 14 – The Senegalese political party PAI-Rénovation is legally recognized, becoming the third legal party in the country.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372603253#August", "title": "1976", "revid": 1372603253, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1982, "year_label": "1982 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 1", "text": "February 1 – Senegal and The Gambia form a loose Senegambia Confederation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373279023#February", "title": "1982", "revid": 1373279023, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 1989, "year_label": "1989 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 13", "text": "January 13 – Former Ugandan dictator Idi Amin is expelled to Senegal from Zaire after using a fake Zairean passport in an attempt to return to Uganda. Amin is eventually expelled from Senegal and subsequently returns to Zaire after the Saudi government refuses to allow him in Saudi Arabia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369557705#January", "title": "1989", "revid": 1369557705, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1993, "year_label": "1993 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "April 27", "text": "April 27 – 1993 Zambia national football team plane crash: All members of the Zambia national football team die in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366430372#April", "title": "1993", "revid": 1366430372, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2006, "year_label": "2006 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 - Hundreds are wounded in fighting between rival factions of the Movement of the Democratic Forces of Casamance led by Salif Sadio, who supports the continuation of the Casamance conflict, and Magne Dieme, who supports reconciliation with the government of Senegal. The fighting has spread to the Gambia and Guinea-Bissau may intervene.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1245931423#June", "title": "2006 in the Gambia", "revid": 1245931423, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 2018, "year_label": "2018 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 1", "text": "1 April - President Barrow accuses supporters of former President Jammeh of supporting rebels in Senegal's Casamance region.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1245931410#April", "title": "2018 in the Gambia", "revid": 1245931410, "section": "Events › April"}}]}