{
  "_note": "Pilot list. Dates are the conventional ones from general knowledge and have NOT been checked against sources row by row. Every entry needs a source before this leaves pilot. year uses -1 for 1 BCE; precision is year or approx.",
  "events": [
    {"year": -264, "title": "First Punic War begins", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": -202, "title": "Han dynasty founded", "tag": "china"},
    {"year": -146, "title": "Carthage destroyed; Macedonia and Africa become provinces", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": -58, "title": "Caesar begins the conquest of Gaul", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": -44, "title": "Caesar assassinated", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": -30, "title": "Egypt annexed after Actium", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": -27, "title": "Augustus: the Republic becomes the Empire", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": 9, "title": "Three legions lost at Teutoburg Forest; Rome halts at the Rhine", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": 43, "title": "Claudius conquers Britain", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": 106, "title": "Trajan annexes Dacia", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": 117, "title": "Roman Empire at its greatest extent", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": 122, "title": "Hadrian's Wall begun", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": 212, "title": "Citizenship extended to nearly all free inhabitants", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": 220, "title": "Han dynasty ends", "tag": "china"},
    {"year": 271, "title": "Dacia abandoned", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": 293, "title": "Tetrarchy: four rulers share the Empire", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": 313, "title": "Edict of Milan", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": 330, "title": "Constantinople dedicated", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": 395, "title": "Empire permanently divided East and West", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": 410, "title": "Rome sacked by the Visigoths", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": 476, "title": "Last Western emperor deposed", "tag": "rome"},
    {"year": 632, "title": "Death of Muhammad; Arab expansion begins", "tag": "islam"},
    {"year": 800, "title": "Charlemagne crowned emperor", "tag": "europe"},
    {"year": 962, "title": "Otto I crowned: the Holy Roman Empire's conventional start", "tag": "europe"},
    {"year": 1071, "title": "Seljuks defeat Byzantium at Manzikert", "tag": "byzantium"},
    {"year": 1096, "title": "First Crusade launched", "tag": "crusades"},
    {"year": 1099, "title": "Crusaders take Jerusalem", "tag": "crusades"},
    {"year": 1187, "title": "Saladin retakes Jerusalem", "tag": "crusades"},
    {"year": 1204, "title": "Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople", "tag": "crusades"},
    {"year": 1206, "title": "Genghis Khan proclaimed ruler of the Mongols", "tag": "mongols"},
    {"year": 1258, "title": "Mongols sack Baghdad", "tag": "mongols"},
    {"year": 1453, "title": "Constantinople falls to the Ottomans", "tag": "byzantium"}
  ]
}