{"slug": "temple-mount", "label": "Temple Mount", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_Mount", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q193163", "qid": "Q193163", "description": "religious hilltop in the Old City of Jerusalem", "entries": 12, "years": 12, "span": [-161, 2000], "span_label": ["162 BCE", "2000 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 6}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "jerusalem", "label": "Jerusalem", "shared": 5}, {"slug": "israel", "label": "Israel", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "jews", "label": "Jews", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "muhammad", "label": "Muhammad", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mecca", "label": "Mecca", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "frederick-ii-holy-roman-emperor", "label": "Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "holy-land", "label": "Holy Land", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jaffa", "label": "Jaffa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "galilee", "label": "Galilee", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "bethlehem", "label": "Bethlehem", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "al-kamil", "label": "Al-Kamil", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "palestinians", "label": "Palestinians", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -161, "year_label": "162 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Seleucid forces still control the Acra, a strong fortress within Jerusalem that faces the Temple Mount. Judas Maccabeus lays siege to the fortress and in response, the Seleucid general and regent to the young Seleucid king Antiochus V, Lysias, approaches Jerusalem and besieges Beth-zechariah, 25 kilometres from the city. Judas lifts his own siege on the Acra, and leads his army south to Beth-zechariah. In the ensuing Battle of Beth-zechariah, the Seleucids achieve their first major victory over the Maccabees, and Judas is forced to withdraw to Jerusalem.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370480795#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "162 BC", "revid": 1370480795, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -62, "year_label": "63 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Massacre of over 12,000 Jews on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem by Roman troops, in support of John Hyrcanus II against Aristobulus II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1209877827#Roman_Republic", "title": "63 BC", "revid": 1209877827, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": 70, "year_label": "70 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "24th of Panemos (about July 20) – Romans set fire to a cloister after the capture of the Fortress of Antonia, north of the Temple Mount. The Romans are drawn into street fighting with the Zealots.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359120161#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 70", "revid": 1359120161, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 621, "year_label": "621 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Islamic tradition says Muhammad visited heaven aboard the winged mount Buraq, in the Isra wal-Miraj, (the Night Journey), from Mecca to Jerusalem, then to heaven from Jerusalem's Temple Mount, then back to Mecca.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755711#Religion", "title": "621", "revid": 1364755711, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 687, "year_label": "687 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Construction of the Dome of the Rock, located on the Temple Mount, is started in Jerusalem (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340806293#Religion", "title": "687", "revid": 1340806293, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1120, "year_label": "1120 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Baldwin II grants the Knights Templar under Hugues de Payens and Godfrey de Saint-Omer a headquarters in a wing of the royal palace on the Temple Mount in the captured Al-Aqsa Mosque in the Old City of Jerusalem.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1298169999#Levant", "title": "1120", "revid": 1298169999, "section": "Events › By place › Levant"}}, {"year": 1229, "year_label": "1229 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 18", "text": "February 18 – Treaty of Jaffa: Emperor Frederick II signs a 10-year truce together with Sultan Al-Kamil and his representatives; he manages to regain many parts of the Holy Land through political negotiation, rather than by resorting to military force or directly confronting the Muslim army. Frederick's achievements, including the control of Jerusalem (without the Temple Mount) and Bethlehem, with a corridor running through Lydda to the sea of Jaffa, as well as Nazareth and western Galilee, including Montfort Castle and Toron, and the remaining Muslim districts around Sidon. All Muslims are to be allowed the right of entry in Jerusalem and freedom of worship.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367488290#Sixth_Crusade", "title": "1229", "revid": 1367488290, "section": "Events › By place › Sixth Crusade"}}, {"year": 1967, "year_label": "1967 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "June 17", "text": "17 June – The Israeli government transfers day-to-day control of the Temple Mount site to the Islamic Waqf.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1318390395#Events", "title": "1967 in Israel", "revid": 1318390395, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1986, "year_label": "1986 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 8", "text": "8 January: Minor rioting breaks out in East Jerusalem due to a visit to the Temple Mount by members of the Knesset's Interior Committee to investigate complaints of illegal construction.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345055679#January", "title": "1986 in Palestine", "revid": 1345055679, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1987, "year_label": "1987 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 15", "text": "15 April: The Temple Mount Faithful organise a march on the Temple Mount and the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, leading to a standoff between the group and Palestinians protestors. The same day, a settler in Kiryat Arba shoots and injures a Palesetinian student from Hebron University after an argument broke out between the two and the settler mistook a Quran the student was holding for a grenade.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366990995#April", "title": "1987 in Palestine", "revid": 1366990995, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "October 8", "text": "October 8 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#October", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 2000, "year_label": "2000 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 28", "text": "September 28 – Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visits the Temple Mount in East Jerusalem, sparking an uprising that becomes the Second Intifada.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371541477#September", "title": "2000", "revid": 1371541477, "section": "Events › September"}}]}