{"slug": "yemen", "label": "Yemen", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemen", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q805", "qid": "Q805", "description": "country in West Asia", "entries": 46, "years": 38, "span": [275, 2023], "span_label": ["275 CE", "2023 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 12}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 8}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 7}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 3}, {"title": "Births", "count": 3}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 3}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 3}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 2}, {"title": "Science & Discovery", "count": 2}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": ["Jemen"], "related": [{"slug": "red-sea", "label": "Red Sea", "shared": 4}, {"slug": "arabian-peninsula", "label": "Arabian Peninsula", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-aksum", "label": "Kingdom of Aksum", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "saudi-arabia", "label": "Saudi Arabia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "himyar", "label": "Himyar", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "aden", "label": "Aden", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "sasanian-empire", "label": "Sasanian Empire", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-arab-emirates", "label": "United Arab Emirates", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "united-nations", "label": "United Nations", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "shia-islam", "label": "Shia Islam", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "imam", "label": "Imam", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "zaydism", "label": "Zaydism", "shared": 2}], "items": [{"year": 275, "year_label": "275 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Approximate date – Himyar king Shammar Yahri'sh conquers Hadhramaut, Najran and Tihamah, unifying the territory later known as Yemen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1308801318#Asia", "title": "275", "revid": 1308801318, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 522, "year_label": "522 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Dhu Nuwas seizes the throne of the Himyarite Kingdom in Yemen. He attacks the Aksumite garrison at Zafar, capturing the city and burning the churches.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340792002#Arabia", "title": "522", "revid": 1340792002, "section": "Events › By place › Arabia"}}, {"year": 523, "year_label": "523 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Arethas, leader of the Christian community in Yemen", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340792003#Deaths", "title": "523", "revid": 1340792003, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 525, "year_label": "525 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Kaleb, king of Aksum, collects a fleet and crosses from Africa to conquer Yemen. He establishes better trade ports on the Red Sea.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340792024#Africa", "title": "525", "revid": 1340792024, "section": "Events › By place › Africa"}}, {"year": 525, "year_label": "525 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Yūsuf Dhū Nuwas, king of the Himyarite Kingdom (Yemen).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340792024#Deaths", "title": "525", "revid": 1340792024, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 570, "year_label": "570 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Abraha, Christian ruler of coastal Yemen, who was acting as a general for the Christian kingdom in Abyssinia, begins a military expedition in Arabia against the predominantly pagan Quraysh of Mecca, known as the Year of the Elephant.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340800837#Arabia", "title": "570", "revid": 1340800837, "section": "Events › By place › Arabia"}}, {"year": 574, "year_label": "574 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Persian Empire overthrows the Axumite- and Byzantine-affiliated regimes in Yemen (Arabian Peninsula).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349204925#Asia", "title": "574", "revid": 1349204925, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 599, "year_label": "599 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "King Khosrau II sends a Persian expedition to South Arabia and conquers Yemen. He establishes a military base to control the sea trade with the East (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364752063#Persia", "title": "599", "revid": 1364752063, "section": "Events › By place › Persia"}}, {"year": 633, "year_label": "633 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Ridda Wars: Abu Bakr, caliph (khalifa) of the Rashidun Caliphate, launches a military campaign against the Arab tribe of Kinda, which inhabits the region of Najran (Yemen).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351044118#Arabia", "title": "633", "revid": 1351044118, "section": "Events › By place › Arabia"}}, {"year": 966, "year_label": "966 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Ali al-Sulayhi, sultan of Yemen, Tihamah and Mecca (d. 1066)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341513206#Births", "title": "966", "revid": 1341513206, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 987, "year_label": "987 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Al-Mahdi al-Husayn, Zaidi imam of Yemen (d. 1013)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364468366#Births", "title": "987", "revid": 1364468366, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1013, "year_label": "1013 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Al-Mahdi al-Husayn, Zaidi imam of Yemen (b. 987)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1342212600#Deaths", "title": "1013", "revid": 1342212600, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1048, "year_label": "1048 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Arwa al-Sulayhi, queen and co-ruler of Yemen (d. 1138)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350129783#Births", "title": "1048", "revid": 1350129783, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 1053, "year_label": "1053 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Abu'l-Fath an-Nasir ad-Dailami, imam of Yemen, killed", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1350130055#Deaths", "title": "1053", "revid": 1350130055, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1138, "year_label": "1138 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Arwa al-Sulayhi, queen and co-ruler of Yemen (b. 1048)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366421724#Deaths", "title": "1138", "revid": 1366421724, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1174, "year_label": "1174 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "February", "text": "February – Saladin's brother Turan-Shah sails with an army and supporting fleet to conquer the Hejaz and Yemen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362171775#Egypt", "title": "1174", "revid": 1362171775, "section": "Events › By place › Egypt"}}, {"year": 1311, "year_label": "1311 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "December 26", "text": "December 26 – Al-Mahdi Muhammad bin al-Mutahhar, the Shi'ite Muslim Imam of the Zaidiyyah state in Yemen, leads Zaidi troops to victory in a battle in the Sheref district against the Sunni Muslim Rasulid sultanate that dominates most of Yemen. A 10-year ceasefire agreement is brokered between Zaidiyyah and the Rasulid Sultan al-Mu'ayyad Da'udsultan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332018282#October_–_December", "title": "1311", "revid": 1332018282, "section": "Events › October – December"}}, {"year": 1363, "year_label": "1363 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Al-Afdal al-Abbas succeeds Al-Mujahid Ali as Rasulid Sultan of Yemen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292555096#Date_unknown", "title": "1363", "revid": 1292555096, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1391, "year_label": "1391 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "November 2", "text": "November 2 – Al-Nasir Muhammad Salah al-Din, Imam of the Zaydi sect of Shia Islam in Yemen, dies at San'a from injuries sustained from being thrown off of his mule. Nasir's death is not announced for two months while his son Al-Mansur Ali bin Salah ad-Din becomes the new Imam but three other claimants attempt to claim the office as well.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365430899#October–December", "title": "1391", "revid": 1365430899, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1418, "year_label": "1418 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "December 30", "text": "December 30 – The Ming Chinese explorers, commanded by Admiral Zheng He, arrive in Yemen to open trade with the Arab kingdom, and the admiral is brought to the court of the Emir Al Malik al Nasir. The Chinese stay until January 27.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1357024356#October–December", "title": "1418", "revid": 1357024356, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1436, "year_label": "1436 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "February 14", "text": "February 14 – In Yemen, the Imam Al-Mansur Ali bin Salah ad-Din of the Zaidi state becomes of one of the victims of a plague sweeping the kingdom. His son, an-Nasir Muhammad, becomes the new Imam but dies four weeks later.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1351320639#January–March", "title": "1436", "revid": 1351320639, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1490, "year_label": "1490 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Merchants carry coffee from Yemen to Mecca (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365746432#Date_unknown", "title": "1490", "revid": 1365746432, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1516, "year_label": "1516 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": "September 17", "text": "September 17 – Based in Kamaran, an island in the Red Sea, the Mamluk Egyptian Admiral Selman Reis leads of fleet 19 ships in an unsuccessful attempt to take Yemen and Aden.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368315851#July–September", "title": "1516", "revid": 1368315851, "section": "Events › July–September"}}, {"year": 1523, "year_label": "1523 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "February 25", "text": "February 25 – Battle of al-Shihr on the Arabian Peninsula (in what is now Yemen): Troops from Portugal fight against the Kathiri Sultanate, ruled by the Emir Mutran bin Mansur. After a battle of one day, the Portuguese sack the capital, Al-Shihr, and establish a port on the Indian Ocean.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369561167#January–March", "title": "1523", "revid": 1369561167, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1547, "year_label": "1547 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "November 15", "text": "November 15 – A fleet of 60 Ottoman Navy ships, commanded by Piri Reis, arrives at the port of Aden (now in Yemen) and captures the city in slightly more than three months, by February 26, 1548.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369359234#October–December", "title": "1547", "revid": 1369359234, "section": "Events › October–December"}}, {"year": 1616, "year_label": "1616 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Dutch traders smuggle the coffee plant out of Mocha, a port in Yemen on the Red Sea, and cultivate it at the Amsterdam Botanical Gardens. The Dutch later introduce it to Java.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366307823#Date_unknown", "title": "1616", "revid": 1366307823, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1635, "year_label": "1635 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Ottomans are expelled from Yemen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360049087#Date_unknown", "title": "1635", "revid": 1360049087, "section": "Events › Date unknown"}}, {"year": 1933, "year_label": "1933 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November 13", "text": "13 November – The founding of the moshav Elyashiv by Jewish immigrants from Yemen, which was the first settlement to be established by Yemenite Jews.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365256277#Events", "title": "1933 in Mandatory Palestine", "revid": 1365256277, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1965, "year_label": "1965 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "December 25", "text": "December 25 – The Yemeni Nasserist Unionist People's Organisation is founded in Ta'izz.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1368843670#November–December", "title": "1965", "revid": 1368843670, "section": "Events › November–December"}}, {"year": 1982, "year_label": "1982 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "December 13", "text": "December 13 – The 6.2 Mw North Yemen earthquake shakes southwestern Yemen with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VIII (Severe), killing 2,800.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373279023#December", "title": "1982", "revid": 1373279023, "section": "Events › December"}}, {"year": 1990, "year_label": "1990 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "May 22", "text": "May 22 – Cold War: The leaders of the Yemen Arab Republic and the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen announce the unification of their countries as the Republic of Yemen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366571855#May", "title": "1990", "revid": 1366571855, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1994, "year_label": "1994 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "July 7", "text": "July 7 – 1994 civil war in Yemen: Aden is occupied by troops from North Yemen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369917016#July", "title": "1994", "revid": 1369917016, "section": "Events › July"}}, {"year": 2002, "year_label": "2002 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "November", "text": "A tape of Osama bin Laden was broadcast on by the Arabic-language al-Jazeera satellite television channel based in Qatar. On the tape, he warned U.S. allies that they would be targets of new attacks if they continued to back the United States. He also hailed attacks in Bali, Kuwait, Yemen and Jordan and the Moscow theatre siege a month earlier. The cassette was handed to an Al Jazeera television correspondent in Islamabad by an unidentified man who disappeared immediately.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372652183#November", "title": "2002 in Afghanistan", "revid": 1372652183, "section": "November"}}, {"year": 2012, "year_label": "2012 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "February 27", "text": "February 27 – Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh formally transfers power to Vice President Abdrabbuh Mansur Hadi, after a year of mass protests, ending his 33-year-long reign.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373434549#February", "title": "2012", "revid": 1373434549, "section": "Events › February"}}, {"year": 2015, "year_label": "2015 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 7", "text": "January 7 – Two gunmen belonging to Al-Qaeda's Yemen branch kill 12 people and injure 11 more at the Paris headquarters of satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo, prompting an anti-terrorism demonstration attended by over a million people and more than 40 world leaders.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373300271#January", "title": "2015", "revid": 1373300271, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2015, "year_label": "2015 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 22", "text": "January 22 – After Houthi forces seize the presidential palace, Yemeni President Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi resigns after months of unrest.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373300271#January", "title": "2015", "revid": 1373300271, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 2015, "year_label": "2015 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 23", "text": "August 23 – A UAE military intelligence operation in the country of Yemen frees one British hostage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373300271#August", "title": "2015", "revid": 1373300271, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 2017, "year_label": "2017 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": "March 10", "text": "March 10 – The UN warns that the world is facing the largest humanitarian crisis since World War II, with up to 20 million people at risk of starvation and famine in Yemen, Somalia, South Sudan and Nigeria.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371948773#March", "title": "2017", "revid": 1371948773, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 2017, "year_label": "2017 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "June 5", "text": "5 June – Qatar plunges into diplomatic crisis as Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and the internationally recognised government of Yemen sever ties with it, claiming that national security, media incitement and Qatari support for Iran are the cause.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1266152521#June", "title": "2017 in Qatar", "revid": 1266152521, "section": "Events › June"}}, {"year": 2020, "year_label": "2020 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "April 1", "text": "April 1 – Yemen's internationally recognised government releases more than 470 of its prisoners amid concerns of the spread of the virus in Yemen's overcrowded jails. The United Nations Human Rights Council has called for the release of all political prisoners.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371633312#April", "title": "2020", "revid": 1371633312, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2020, "year_label": "2020 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "April 8", "text": "April 8 – COVID-19 pandemic: The Saudi–led coalition declares a unilateral ceasefire in its operations against Houthi forces in Yemen in accordance with United Nations-led efforts.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371633312#April", "title": "2020", "revid": 1371633312, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2020, "year_label": "2020 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "October 4", "text": "4 October – Eight migrants are dead, while 12 more are missing, after three unidentified smugglers hijacked their boat off the coast of Djibouti, according to eyewitnesses and the International Organization for Migration. The agency reports that the migrants had attempted to reach Saudi Arabia via Yemen, but were forced to return to the Horn of Africa due to COVID-19 pandemic-related travel restrictions.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1324965791#Events", "title": "2020 in Djibouti", "revid": 1324965791, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 2021, "year_label": "2021 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": "March 4", "text": "4 March – Twenty migrants drown after 80 people are thrown overboard on a boat en route from Djibouti to Yemen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1292821575#Events", "title": "2021 in Djibouti", "revid": 1292821575, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 2023, "year_label": "2023 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 19", "text": "April 19 – At least 90 people are killed and another 322 injured in a crowd crush during a Ramadan charity event in Sanaa, Yemen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372811827#April", "title": "2023", "revid": 1372811827, "section": "Events › April"}}, {"year": 2023, "year_label": "2023 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": "August 21", "text": "August 21 – Saudi Arabia is accused of mass killing hundreds of African migrants attempting to cross its border with Yemen.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372811827#August", "title": "2023", "revid": 1372811827, "section": "Events › August"}}, {"year": 2023, "year_label": "2023 CE", "section": "Science & Discovery", "date": "November 23", "text": "November 23 – CENTCOM reports that the USS Thomas Hudner has shot down \"multiple\" Israel-bound attack drones launched from Houthi-controlled Yemen over the Red Sea. No injuries or damage are reported.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1360356196#November", "title": "2023 in Lebanon", "revid": 1360356196, "section": "Events › November"}}]}