Region: Korean Peninsula · Coordinates: 35.850, 129.217 · 57 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| 69 BC | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | On the first day of the third month the chiefs of the six villages gathered at the bank of the Alcheon and discussed seeking a ruler. tradition |
| 57 BC | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | Pak Hyeokgeose ascended the throne at thirteen, took the title Geoseogan, and named the country Seorabeol. tradition |
| 57 BC | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | Hyeokgeose became king at thirteen, took Alyeong as his queen, and named the country Seorabeol. tradition |
| 37 BC | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | He built a capital fortress and named it Geumseong. tradition |
| 37 BC | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | Silla built Geumseong (entry from the royal chronology table). tradition |
| 32 BC | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | He built palaces within Geumseong. tradition |
| AD 37 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | The people of Iseo came and attacked Silla's Geumseong. tradition |
| AD 57 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | In the sixth month Talhae ascended the throne and took Seok as his family name. tradition |
| AD 101 | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | A fortress was built and named Wolseong, and the king moved there to live. tradition |
| AD 364 | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | When the Wae came in great numbers, straw figures were set up below Tohamsan and, with a hidden force, they were struck down in a great victory. tradition |
| AD 392 | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | Because Goguryeo was strong, Silseong was sent to Goguryeo as a hostage. |
| AD 393 | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | The Wae besieged Geumseong for five days; the king shut the gates and held out, then pursued from Doksan and defeated them. tradition |
| AD 444 | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | The Wae besieged Geumseong for ten days; the king pursued but was defeated east of Doksan, and more than half of the officers and soldiers died. |
| AD 459 | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | The Wae attacked the eastern frontier with more than a hundred warships and besieged Wolseong; the king defended the fortress, then sallied out and defeated them. |
| AD 479 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | Troops of Wa invaded; Myeonghwal fortress was built for the first time and people fled into it (the siege of Yangju fortress was lifted). |
| AD 488 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | King Bicheo, on a progress to Cheoncheonjeong, was guided by a crow and a rat to a letter from an old man at the pond; following the letter's instruction to shoot the zither box, he killed the inner monk; this is the origin of the Ogiil (Day of the Crow) on the first full moon. |
| AD 553 | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | When a yellow dragon appeared as the king was about to build a new palace east of Wolseong, he changed it into a temple and named it Hwangnyongsa. |
| AD 632 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | Using the sound of frogs, they killed five hundred Baekje soldiers hidden in Yeogeun valley in the western suburbs, and also destroyed General Useo and the twelve hundred who followed. |
| AD 647 | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | Bidam and Yeomjong rebelled, objecting to the queen's rule, but could not win. |
| AD 661 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | Prince Cha Deukgong, younger brother of King Munmu, left the capital dressed as a layman with a pipa, to look into the conditions of the common people. |
| AD 663 | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | The Tang made Silla the Gyerim Great Protectorate and named King Munmu Grand Commander of Gyerim. |
| AD 681 | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | Sopan Kim Heumdol and others were executed for plotting rebellion. |
| AD 681 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | King Sinmun ascended on the seventh day of the seventh month and built Gameunsa on the East Sea shore for his father. |
| AD 722 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | In the tenth month a gate was built at Mohwa-gun as a barrier against Japan; the wall circuit was 6,792 bo and forty-two thousand men were mobilized. |
| AD 742 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | On the third day of the third month King Gyeongdeok, climbing the Gwijeong gate tower, summoned the monk Chungdam on the road, received tea from him, and asked him to compose the Anminga (Song of Pacifying the People). |
| AD 767 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | On the third day of the seventh month the gakgan Daegong rebelled; the ninety-six gakgan of the capital and the five provinces fought one another, and great turmoil continued for three months. |
| AD 768 | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | Ilgilchan Daegong and his younger brother Daeryeom plotted rebellion; they gathered followers and surrounded the royal palace for thirty-three days until they were suppressed. |
| AD 779 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | In the fourth month a whirlwind rose at the tomb of Kim Yusin, entered the tomb of King Michu and complained; King Hyegong apologized and gave thirty gyeol of meritorious estate. |
| AD 780 | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | Ichan Kim Jijeong rebelled and invaded the palace; Kim Yangsang and Kyeongsin raised troops and killed him. The king and his consorts were harmed by the rebel soldiers. |
| AD 785 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | When King Seondeok died, Ichan Kim Juwon could not cross because the Alcheon river had swelled; meanwhile Gyeongsin, who was not in the line of succession, entered the palace first and ascended the throne. |
| AD 795 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | A Tang envoy came to the capital, stayed a month and returned. |
| AD 826 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | When King Heungdeok ascended, envoys soon brought a pair of parrots from the Tang; when the female died, the male saw its reflection in a mirror and died. |
| AD 861 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | King Gyeongmun (Eungnyeom) ascended by the will of King Heonan; the story that his ears became donkey's ears. |
| AD 887 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | Lady Bu-ho and Wi-hong, the royal nurse, abused power and bandits swarmed; Wang Geo-in, who threw dharani coded verses on the road, was jailed and freed when lightning struck. tradition |
| AD 912 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | At the outer gate of Bongseongsa, magpies built nests in twenty-one bays, an omen that continued. |
| AD 920 | Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) | Silla sends envoys asking for rescue; the king sends troops to save it, and Gyeonhwon withdraws; from then on the two fall out. |
| AD 924 | Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) | Silla's king Seungyeong dies, his younger brother Wiung succeeds, and comes to report the mourning. |
| AD 924 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | On the nineteenth day of the second month a Hundred Seats Sutra lecture was held at Hwangnyongsa and three hundred Seon monks were given offerings. |
| AD 927 | Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) | Gyeonhwon releases his troops to loot heavily, enters the royal palace, and drives the Silla king into the crowd, forcing him to take his own life. |
| AD 927 | Goryeosa Jeolyo (Essentials of Goryeo History) | Gyeon Hwon suddenly attacks Silla's royal capital, plunders it and occupies the palace; the Silla king, feasting at Poseokjeong, flees to a southern detached palace |
| AD 927 | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | Before the relief troops arrived, Gyeon Hwon burst into the royal capital, plundered it and captured the king. |
| AD 927 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | In the eleventh month Gyeon Hwon invaded the royal capital, caught King Gyeongae feasting at Posokjeong and killed him, and set up Kim Bu. |
| AD 928 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | In the third month Taejo arrived in the capital with fifty horsemen; the king met him in the outskirts and held a banquet at Imhaejeon. |
| AD 931 | Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) | Taejo leads about fifty cavalry to the capital region of Silla to pay his respects. |
| AD 931 | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | Taejo came to the Gyeonggi region of Silla with about fifty horsemen to see the king; the king and the court officials met him outside the capital. |
| AD 935 | Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) | The Silla king submits a memorial asking to be received in the manner of a vassal (Silla surrenders). |
| AD 935 | Samguk Sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) | King Gyeongsun, saying that the land around had fallen to others and the state was weak, deliberated with his ministers and decided to surrender the land to Taejo; his son opposed and went off to Mount Gaegol. |
| AD 935 | Samguk Yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) | In the tenth month King Gyeongsun discussed with his ministers surrendering the whole country to Taejo, and the crown prince left for Mount Gaegol. |
| AD 1073 | Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) | Pirates from the Eastern Barbarians raid Pajam-bugok under Dongkyeong; the Dowonseo of Wonheung-jin fights them at Chodo with warships and cuts off twelve heads. |
| AD 1173 | Goryeosa Jeolyo (Essentials of Goryeo History) | 1173: the people of Gyeongju kill Sun-seok, In-jun and their faction and admit Yi Ui-min and others into the city. They confine Uijong in the guesthouse and, on the first day of the tenth month (Gyeongsin), take him out to the pond north of Gonwonsa and offer him wine |
| AD 1190 | Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) | Bandits rise in Dongkyeong; Vice-Commissioner Ju Yu-jeo, planning to attack them, is injured. |
| AD 1199 | Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) | Bandits in Dongkyeong rise again and join the bandits of Myeongju, plundering the districts. |
| AD 1200 | Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) | In Gyeongju, a kinsman of Yi Ui-min quarrels with Ju-ri and loses in combat. |
| AD 1202 | Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) | Choe Chung-heon proposes, citing the unjust conduct of the people of Gyeongju and their attacks on neighboring towns, to gather ministers and generals and discuss a punitive campaign. |
| AD 1202 | Goryeosa Jeolyo (Essentials of Goryeo History) | 1202: Ji Ja-sim, Gyeongsang inspector, reports that Gyeongju asks to surrender; Choe Chung-heon, angered, sends Kim Cheok-hu and others as central, left and right army commanders to suppress it. The rebels gather bandits from Mt. Unmun and Uljin and style themselves Jeonggukbyeongma |
| AD 1204 | Goryeosa Jeolyo (Essentials of Goryeo History) | 1204: because the people of Donggyeong were said to have plotted rebellion by speaking of Silla's restoration, the governor of Donggyeong is demoted to Jigyeongjusa and Andong is raised to a Daedohobu |
| AD 1238 | Goryeosa (History of Goryeo) | The Mongols reach Dongkyeong and burn the pagoda of Hwangnyong Temple. |