facts_by_date 1.0.0

data/data/2/6.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"337",
+            "text":"St Julius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1189",
+            "text":"Riots in Lynn, Norfolk (England) spread to Norwich"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1508",
+            "text":"Maximilian I proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor,though 1st Emperor in centuries not to be crowned by the Pope"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1577",
+            "text":"King Henri de Bourbon of Navarra becomes leader of Huguenots"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1626",
+            "text":"Huguenot rebels & French sign Peace of La Rochelle"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1651",
+            "text":"-7] Cardinal Mazarin flees Paris"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1685",
+            "text":"Duke of York becomes King James II of England and VII of Scotland upon the death of his brother Charles II."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1693",
+            "text":"Royal charter granted College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, Va"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1716",
+            "text":"Britain & Netherlands renew alliance"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1778",
+            "text":"Britain declares war on France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1778",
+            "text":"France recognizes USA, signs Treaty of Alliance in Paris; 1st US treaty"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1788",
+            "text":"Massachusetts becomes 6th state to ratify constitution"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1815",
+            "text":"NJ issues 1st US railroad charter (John Stevens)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1819",
+            "text":"Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles founds freeport harbor Singapore"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"6",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1820",
+            "text":"1st organized emigration of blacks back to Africa (NY to Sierra Leone)"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/7.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"457",
+            "text":"Leo I becomes emperor of the Byzantine Empire."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1074",
+            "text":"Battle of Montesarchio in which the prince of Benevento, Pandulf IV, is killed battling the encroaching Normans."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1238",
+            "text":"The Mongols burn the Russian city of Vladimir."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1301",
+            "text":"Edward of Caernarion (later Edward II) becomes first (English) prince of Wales"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1522",
+            "text":"Treaty of Brussels: Habsburgers split into Spanish and Austrian Branches"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1550",
+            "text":"Giovanni Maria del Monte elected Pope Julius III"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1569",
+            "text":"King Philip II forms inquistion in South America"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1613",
+            "text":"Michail Romanov (aged 16) becomes Tsar of Russia"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1639",
+            "text":"Academie Francaise begins Dictionary of French Language"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1653",
+            "text":"Nicolas Fouquet appointed superintendant of Finance of France"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1668",
+            "text":"Dutch Prince William III dances in premiere of \"Ballet of Peace\""
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1792",
+            "text":"Austria & Prussia sign anti-French covenant"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1792",
+            "text":"D Cimarosa's opera \"Il Matrimonio Segreto\" premieres in Vienna"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1795",
+            "text":"11th Amendment to US Constitution ratified, affirms power of states"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1795",
+            "text":"Dutch Prince William V accepts British occupation of Dutch Indies"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1812",
+            "text":"8.2 earthquake shakes New Madrid, Missouri"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1812",
+            "text":"Poet Lord Byron (6th Baron Byron) makes his maiden speech in House of Lords"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1818",
+            "text":"1st successful US educational magazine \"Academician\" begins (NYC)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"7",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1827",
+            "text":"Ballet (Deserter) introduced to US at Bowery Theater (NYC)"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/8.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"421",
+            "text":"Flavius Constantine becomes Co-Emperor as Emperor Constantius III of the Western Roman Empire with Honorius"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1526",
+            "text":"Heavy storm strikes Dutch coast, many die"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1575",
+            "text":"University Leiden founded, and given the motto \"Praesidium Libertatis\""
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1600",
+            "text":"Vatican convicts scholar Giordano Bruno to death"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1601",
+            "text":"Earl Robert Devereux of Essex armies draws into London"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1622",
+            "text":"King James I disbands the English parliament"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1672",
+            "text":"Isaac Newton reads 1st optics paper before Royal Society in London"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1690",
+            "text":"French & Indian troops set Schenectady settlement NY on fire"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1690",
+            "text":"Lord Halifax resigns as Lord Privy Seal"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1693",
+            "text":"William & Mary college is chartered in the Dominion and Colony of Virginia (2nd in North America)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1726",
+            "text":"The Supreme Privy Council is established in Russia."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1735",
+            "text":"First opera in North American colonies \"Flora\" opens in Charleston, SC"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1743",
+            "text":"Comet C/1743 C1 approaches within 0.0390 AUs of Earth"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1744",
+            "text":"French/Spanish fleet leaves Toulon"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"8",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1750",
+            "text":"Minor earthquake in London"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/2/9.json

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+[
+   {
+      "facts":[
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"474",
+            "text":"Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire together with his son Leo II."
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1267",
+            "text":"Synod of Breslau orders Jews of Silesia to wear special caps"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1499",
+            "text":"France & Venice sign treaty against Milan"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1537",
+            "text":"Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1540",
+            "text":"The first recorded race meet in England (Roodee Fields, Chester)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1554",
+            "text":"Battle at London: Sir Thomas Wyatt defeated and his rebellion against Queen Mary crushed"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1555",
+            "text":"Bishop of Gloucester John Hooper is burned at the stake for heresy"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1574",
+            "text":"Louis of Nassau ends siege of Maastricht"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1621",
+            "text":"Alexander Ludovisi is elected Pope Gregory XV (-1623)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1667",
+            "text":"Treaty of Andrussovo: Russia/Poland signs peace treaty"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1674",
+            "text":"English reconquer NY from Netherlands"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1682",
+            "text":"Thomas Otway's \"Venice Preserved\" premieres in London"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1742",
+            "text":"Sir Robert Walpole, often referred to as the first British Prime Minister, enobled as 1st Earl of Orford"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1744",
+            "text":"Battle at Toulon (French/Spanish vs English fleet of Adm Matthews)"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1775",
+            "text":"British Parliament declares Massachusetts colony is in rebellion"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1788",
+            "text":"Austria declares war on Russia"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1799",
+            "text":"USS Constellation captures French frigate Insurgents off Nevis, W I"
+         },
+         {
+            "day":"9",
+            "month":"2",
+            "year":"1801",
+            "text":"France & Austria sign Peace of Luneville"
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]

data/data/3/1.json

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+[  
+   {  
+      "facts":[  
+         {  
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"752 BC",
+            "text":"Romulus, first king of Rome, celebrates the first Roman triumph after his victory over the Caeninenses, following the Rape of the Sabine Women."
+         },
+         {  
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"86 BC",
+            "text":"Lucius Cornelius Sulla, at the head of a Roman Republic army, enters Athens, removing the tyrant Aristion who was supported by troops of Mithridates VI of Pontus."
+         },
+         {  
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"293",
+            "text":"Roman emperor Maximianus introduces tetrarchy"
+         },
+         {  
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"317",
+            "text":"Crispus and Constantine II, sons of Roman Emperor Constantine I, and Licinius Iunior, son of Emperor Licinius, are made Caesares"
+         },
+         {  
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"492",
+            "text":"St Felix III ends his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {  
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"492",
+            "text":"St Gelasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {  
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"705",
+            "text":"John VII begins his reign as Catholic Pope"
+         },
+         {  
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"743",
+            "text":"Slave export by Christians to heathen areas prohibited"
+         },
+         {  
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"918",
+            "text":"Balderik becomes bishop of Utrecht"
+         },
+         {  
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1260",
+            "text":"Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis, conquerors Damascus"
+         },
+         {  
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1382",
+            "text":"Maillotin uprising against taxes in France"
+         },
+         {  
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1420",
+            "text":"Pope Martinus I calls for crusade against the Hussite protestants"
+         },
+         {  
+            "day":"1",
+            "month":"3",
+            "year":"1457",
+            "text":"The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination."
+         }
+      ]
+   }
+]