Historical Events Timeline

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Historical Events Web API

This Web API provides historical events extracted from Wikipedia articles like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010.

Basic URL is www.vizgr.org/historical-events/search.php?

The following parameters can be used:

PARAMETERFORMAT or EXAMPLESTANDARD
begin_dateYYYYMMDD
end_dateYYYYMMDD
langen/de/it/es/pt/ca/id/ro/tren
queryfree keyword like EGYPT
to be found in the event description
formatjson/xmlxml
htmlWikipedia html links in the description; true/falsefalse
linksshow links from the description separately; true/falsefalse
limit100
orderasc/descasc
categoryonly for German and some other languages, see lower for a list of categories
granularityall, year, monthyear
relatedfinds related events; true/falsefalse


Try the following queries:

http://www.vizgr.org/historical-events/search.php?begin_date=19450000&end_date=19501231
http://www.vizgr.org/historical-events/search.php?query=Egypt
http://www.vizgr.org/historical-events/search.php?category=Kultur
http://www.vizgr.org/historical-events/search.php?query=arab%20spring&related=true

Number of events

All together 192463 events.

German/year: 36883 events from -300/00/00 BC to 2013/12/31
English/year: 37859 events from -300/00/00 BC to 2012/12/31
Italian/year: 13813 events from -300/00/00 BC to 2013/11/03
Spanish/year: 20330 events from -299/00/00 BC to 2013/11/17
Portuguese/year: 7879 events from -292/00/00 BC to 2013/00/00
Catalan/year: 7699 events from -300/00/00 BC to 2013/09/11
Indonesian/year: 2430 events from -300/00/00 BC to 2013/05/10
Romanian/year: 13936 events from -300/00/00 BC to 2013/07/01
Turkish/year: 3572 events from 1/00/00 BC to 2013/05/10
German/month: 9912 events from 2000/00/00 BC to 2012/10/28
English/month: 38150 events from 2000/00/00 BC to 2012/09/23

Download N3

wikieventRDF_en_year.n3
wikieventRDF_en_month.n3