{"slug": "southampton", "label": "Southampton", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79848", "qid": "Q79848", "description": "city and major port in Hampshire, South-East England, United Kingdom", "entries": 16, "years": 15, "span": [634, 1967], "span_label": ["634 CE", "1967 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 6}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "wessex", "label": "Wessex", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "new-york-city", "label": "New York City", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "cunard-line", "label": "Cunard Line", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "england", "label": "England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "united-kingdom", "label": "United Kingdom", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vikings", "label": "Vikings", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "alfred-the-great", "label": "Alfred the Great", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "royal-navy", "label": "Royal Navy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "birinus", "label": "Birinus", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mediterranean-sea", "label": "Mediterranean Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "marseille", "label": "Marseille", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "genoa", "label": "Genoa", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 634, "year_label": "634 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Birinus, Frankish missionary, lands at the port of \"Hamwic\" (now in the St. Mary's area of Southampton), on his mission to reconvert the West Saxons in England. About this time, the St Mary's Church is founded.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1299946990#Religion", "title": "634", "revid": 1299946990, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 896, "year_label": "896 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "Summer – King Alfred the Great orders the building of English warships (almost twice as long as the longships) on the Itchen at Southampton, against the Danish Viking raiders in Wessex.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346094345#Britain", "title": "896", "revid": 1346094345, "section": "Events › By place › Britain"}}, {"year": 1190, "year_label": "1190 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 4", "text": "July 4 – King Richard I (the Lion Heart) and Philip II (Augustus), meet at Vézelay and agree to divide the spoils of the Crusade equally between themselves. They march to the coast and then make their way across the Mediterranean, taking different routes. Richard travels with an expeditionary force (some 17,000 men) via Marseille and Philip travels with a smaller contingent (some 15,000 men) via Genoa. Richard has some 100 ships at his disposal, several of which are from Norman ports, others from Shoreham and Southampton.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368650742#Europe", "title": "1190", "revid": 1368650742, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1299, "year_label": "1299 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Southampton Old Bowling Green is established in Southampton. It is the oldest surviving bowling green.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349939019#British_Isles", "title": "1299", "revid": 1349939019, "section": "Events › By place › British Isles"}}, {"year": 1338, "year_label": "1338 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 5", "text": "October 5 – Hundred Years' War, English Channel naval campaign: Southampton is destroyed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360556849#Events", "title": "1338", "revid": 1360556849, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1471, "year_label": "1471 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 22", "text": "September 22 – After being tracked down by King Edward IV and taken prisoner at Southampton, the rebel Thomas Neville is beheaded at Middleham Castle in his native Yorkshire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370196979#July–September", "title": "1471", "revid": 1370196979, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1841, "year_label": "1841 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "May 1", "text": "1 May - Sir Rufane Shaw Donkin, acting Governor of the Cape Colony who supervised the arrival and settling of the British settlers and who founded Port Elizabeth, dies in Southampton, England", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368951954#Deaths", "title": "1841 in South Africa", "revid": 1368951954, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1909, "year_label": "1909 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "June", "text": "Mahatma Gandhi embarks in Cape Town for Southampton, England.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1269184879", "title": "1909 in South Africa", "revid": 1269184879, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1911, "year_label": "1911 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "September 20", "text": "20 September – the new liner RMS Olympic, sister ship to the Titanic, collides with Royal Navy cruiser HMS Hawke off Southampton; there is no loss of life or serious injury.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363320110#Events", "title": "1911 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1363320110, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1912, "year_label": "1912 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "April 10", "text": "April 10 – White Star liner RMS Titanic departs from Southampton, England, with more than 2,200 passengers and crew on her maiden voyage, bound for New York.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503730#April", "title": "1912", "revid": 1373503730, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1918, "year_label": "1918 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "August 3", "text": "August 3 – WWI: Australian hospital ship HMAT Warilda is torpedoed and sunk in the English Channel on passage from Le Havre to Southampton by German submarine SMU UC-49 with the loss of 123 of the 801 people on board.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373520023#August", "title": "1918", "revid": 1373520023, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 1935, "year_label": "1935 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 1", "text": "July 1 – RMS Mauretania sails from Southampton to Rosyth to be broken up.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370722923#July", "title": "1935", "revid": 1370722923, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 1949, "year_label": "1949 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 4", "text": "4 January – RMS Caronia of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York on her maiden voyage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371414593#Events", "title": "1949 in the United Kingdom", "revid": 1371414593, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1949, "year_label": "1949 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "January 4", "text": "January 4 – RMS Caronia (1947) of the Cunard Line departs Southampton for New York City on her maiden voyage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370917975#January–March", "title": "1949 in the United States", "revid": 1370917975, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1952, "year_label": "1952 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "July 3", "text": "July 3 - The SS United States Has Her maiden voyage en route from New York To Southampton And wins the Blue Riband", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373187098#July–August", "title": "1952", "revid": 1373187098, "section": "Events › July–August"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "September 27", "text": "September 27 – The RMS Queen Mary arrives in Southampton at the end of her last transatlantic crossing.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370160888#September", "title": "1967", "revid": 1370160888, "section": "Events › September"}}]}