Sima Guang completes Zizhi Tongjian
1084
After nineteen years of work, the Chinese scholar-official presented Emperor Shenzong with a comprehensive chronological history of China from 403 BC to 959 AD, in two hundred ninety-four chapters. The Zizhi Tongjian remains one of the greatest feats of historiography ever undertaken by a single scholar in any culture. Its title, Comprehensive Mirror to Aid in Government, declared its purpose: to teach rulers from the past's mistakes.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.
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