Goryeo | 15th year of King Hyeonjong, 100 Arabian merchants visited
Goryeo with their local products as presents, asking for trade. This is the first
historical account of Arabian merchants visiting the Korean Peninsula.
AD 1223
Goryeo | 10th year of King Gojong, Japanese pirates invaded Goryeo, advancing into the city of Geumju (present-day Gimhae)
AD 1270
Goryeo | 11th year of King Wonjong, Sambyeolcho led a resistance
movement against Mongol (~AD 1273). After the King’s surrender to
Yuan Dynasty, it led about a thousand battleships, launching campaign
against Mongol on its way to Jindo and Jaejudo
AD 1274
Goryeo | 15th year of King Won, Kim Banggyung from Goryeo and Hong
Dagu from Yuan Dynasty built 900 battleships within five month with
Goryeo’s shipbuilding technology.
They tried to carry out the first expedition to Japan only to fail.
AD 1281
Goryeo | 7th year of King Chungnyeol, Kim Banggyung and Hong Dagu tried again to carry out expedition to Japan to no avail
AD 1374
Goryeo | 23th year of King Gongmin, Choe Yeong suppressed the rebellion of Mokho by Mongols in Jeju with 314 battleships
AD 1380
Goryeo | 6th year of King Wu, Choi Mu-seon completely defeated
about 500 Japanese battleship with gunpowder weapons at Jinpo (present-day the coastal waters of Gunsan)
AD 1383
Goryeo | 9th year of King U, Jeong Ji defeated Japanese battleships, which invaded Namhaehyeon at Gwaneumpo
AD 1389
Goryeo | 1st year of King Chang, Bak Wi conquered Tsushima (present-day Daemado) with 100 battleships
World History
AD 800 ~ AD 1100
Vikings expedition began Discovered England (AD 830) and Iceland (AD 860), Conquered Paris of France (AD 885), and carried out expedition to Russia (AD 900) and North America (AD 1000)
AD 911
Norway | Rollo, the leader of Vikings, founded Normandy Dukedom at the downstream of Seine river, France
AD 960
China | Founding of Song Dynasty (North Song Dynasty collapsed in AD1127)
AD 982
Norway | Eric of Vikings discovers Greenland
AD 1096
The Crusades began (expeditionary warfare was waged eight times until AD 1270 to reclaim Jerusalem.
AD 1115
China | Founding of Jin Dynasty (~AD 1234)
AD 1127
Japan | Establishment of Kamakura shogunate
AD 1206
Mongol | Jinghis Khan unified Mongol
AD 1279
China | Yuan Dynasty unified China
AD 1299
Italy | Marco Polo’s The Travels of Marco Polo was published
AD 1336
Japan | Establishment of Muromachi shogunate (~AD 1573)
AD 1368
China | Founding of Ming Dynasty (~AD 1644)
AD 1371
China | Hong Wu, the first emperor of Ming Dynasty implemented policies to restrict trade (Haegum policy)
