{"slug": "woodrow-wilson", "label": "Woodrow Wilson", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q34296", "qid": "Q34296", "description": "28th President of the United States (1913–1921)", "entries": 21, "years": 10, "span": [1856, 1924], "span_label": ["1856 CE", "1924 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 6}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 5}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 3}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "president-of-the-united-states", "label": "President of the United States", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "nobel-peace-prize", "label": "Nobel Peace Prize", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-states-congress", "label": "United States Congress", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "new-jersey", "label": "New Jersey", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "theodore-roosevelt", "label": "Theodore Roosevelt", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "california", "label": "California", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "democratic-party-united-states", "label": "Democratic Party (United States)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "republican-party-united-states", "label": "Republican Party (United States)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "wilhelm-ii", "label": "Wilhelm II", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "panama-canal", "label": "Panama Canal", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "federal-reserve", "label": "Federal Reserve", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pancho-villa", "label": "Pancho Villa", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 1856, "year_label": "1856 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "December 28", "text": "December 28 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1924)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371140008#October–December", "title": "1856", "revid": 1371140008, "section": "Births › October–December"}}, {"year": 1912, "year_label": "1912 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 5", "text": "November 5 – 1912 United States presidential election: New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson beats former president Theodore Roosevelt and incumbent president William Howard Taft.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373503730#November", "title": "1912", "revid": 1373503730, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1912, "year_label": "1912 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "November 5", "text": "November 5 – U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger and Governor of New Jersey Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft. Taft's base is undercut by Progressive Party candidate (and former Republican) Theodore Roosevelt, who finishes second, ahead of Taft.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362271149#November", "title": "1912 in the United States", "revid": 1362271149, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1913, "year_label": "1913 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "October 10", "text": "October 10 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson triggers the explosion of the Gamboa Dike, ending construction on the Panama Canal.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373505613#October", "title": "1913", "revid": 1373505613, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1913, "year_label": "1913 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": "December 23", "text": "December 23 – The Federal Reserve System is created as the central banking system of the United States, by Woodrow Wilson's signature of the Federal Reserve Act.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373505613#December", "title": "1913", "revid": 1373505613, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1914, "year_label": "1914 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 1", "text": "June 1 – Woodrow Wilson's envoy, Edward Mandell House, meets Kaiser Wilhelm II.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518346#June", "title": "1914", "revid": 1373518346, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1914, "year_label": "1914 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "December 17", "text": "December 17 – United States President Woodrow Wilson signs the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act. This begins the ongoing international war on drugs.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518346#December", "title": "1914", "revid": 1373518346, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1914, "year_label": "1914 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "December 17", "text": "December 17 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs the Harrison Narcotics Tax Act (initially introduced by Francis Burton Harrison).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366567424#October–December", "title": "1914 in the United States", "revid": 1366567424, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1915, "year_label": "1915 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "December 18", "text": "December 18 – United States president Woodrow Wilson marries Edith B. Galt, in Washington, D.C.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373518749#December", "title": "1915", "revid": 1373518749, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1916, "year_label": "1916 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "March 15", "text": "March 15 – United States President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.–Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa; the 13th Cavalry regiment enters Mexican territory.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519106#March", "title": "1916", "revid": 1373519106, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1916, "year_label": "1916 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "June 15", "text": "June 15 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519106#June", "title": "1916", "revid": 1373519106, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 1916, "year_label": "1916 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "November 7", "text": "November 7 – 1916 United States presidential election: Democratic President Woodrow Wilson narrowly defeats Republican Charles Evans Hughes, when California is called a week after Election Day.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519106#November", "title": "1916", "revid": 1373519106, "section": "Events › November"}}, {"year": 1917, "year_label": "1917 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "December 26", "text": "December 26 – United States President Woodrow Wilson uses the Federal Possession and Control Act to place most U.S. railroads under the United States Railroad Administration, hoping to transport troops and materials for the war effort more efficiently.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373519608#December", "title": "1917", "revid": 1373519608, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1918, "year_label": "1918 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 8", "text": "January 8 – American president Woodrow Wilson presents the Fourteen Points as a basis for peace negotiations to end the war.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373520023#January", "title": "1918", "revid": 1373520023, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1918, "year_label": "1918 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 4", "text": "December 4 – President Woodrow Wilson departs by ship to the Paris Peace Conference, becoming the first United States President to travel to Europe while holding office.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373520023#December", "title": "1918", "revid": 1373520023, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1919, "year_label": "1919 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": "April 15", "text": "April 15 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson issues a memorandum proposing a line, the so-called \"Wilson Line\", dividing the Istrian peninsula between Italy and Yugoslavia. Trieste and Pula, with the railway connecting them, lay on the Italian side; Fiume and Ljubljana, with the railway connecting them, on the Yugoslav. Učka (Monte Maggiore) was to be Italian, but the Wilson Line ran further west of Fiume than that of the Treaty of London. Italy would have none of the rights in northern Dalmatia granted it by that treaty, but it would receive the islands of Vis (Lissa) and Lošinj (Lussin). After the resignation of Orlando and Sonnino in June, the new Foreign Minister Tommaso Tittoni alters the course of negotiations by abandoning the Treaty of London and strengthening the Franco-Italian alliance, but he did not accept President Wilson's proposed \"line\". The French diplomat André Tardieu worked as an intermediary between Tittoni and the Americans, and he first suggested the creation of a buffer state out of a strip of land around Fiume, the future Free State of Fiume.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1321604886#April", "title": "1919 in Italy", "revid": 1321604886, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 1919, "year_label": "1919 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "May 14", "text": "May 14 – The University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, establishes probably the world's first chair in International Politics, endowed by David Davies and his sisters in honour of Woodrow Wilson, with Alfred Eckhard Zimmern as first professor.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373508849#May", "title": "1919", "revid": 1373508849, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1919, "year_label": "1919 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "October 2", "text": "October 2 – President of the United States Woodrow Wilson suffers a serious stroke, rendering him an invalid for the remainder of his life.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373508849#October", "title": "1919", "revid": 1373508849, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1919, "year_label": "1919 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 – Prohibition in the United States: The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act, over President Woodrow Wilson's veto. Prohibition goes into effect on January 17, 1920, under the provisions of the Eighteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373508849#October", "title": "1919", "revid": 1373508849, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1919, "year_label": "1919 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "October 28", "text": "October 28 – Prohibition begins: The United States Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson's veto.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365051937#October", "title": "1919 in the United States", "revid": 1365051937, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1924, "year_label": "1924 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "February 3", "text": "February 3 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President of the United States, Nobel Peace Prize recipient (b. 1856)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372136634#February", "title": "1924", "revid": 1372136634, "section": "Deaths › February"}}]}