Sejong the Great Crowned in Joseon Korea
1418
The twenty-one-year-old fourth son, passed over only because his brothers renounced their claims, took the Korean throne. He would invent an alphabet, build rain gauges, commission star maps, and standardize music. Korean historians still date their golden age to the morning he put on the dragon robe. His creation of Hangul, designed so a wise man could learn it in a morning, remains one of history's greatest acts of linguistic engineering.
In context
Also in 1418 (2 other events on record)
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- Paris Massacre of Armagnacs · Europe · War
Before and after in East Asia
Before and after in Politics
- Before: 1415: Ming Currency Collapse
- After: May 21, 1420: Treaty of Troyes
Era
Late Middle Ages (1301–1500), one of 874 events from that era on Saeculum.
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