  The DBpedia project extracts structured information from Wikipedia and makes
it available on the web. Information is gathered mainly with the help of
infoboxes that contain structured information of the Wikipedia article. A lot
of information is only contained in the article body and is not yet included in
DBpedia. In this paper we focus on the extraction of historical events from
Wikipedia articles that are available for about 2,500 years for different
languages. We have extracted about 121,000 events with more than 325,000 links
to DBpedia entities and provide access to this data via a Web API, SPARQL
endpoint, Linked Data Interface and in a timeline application.
