Timeline: A Comparative Perspective

Korea Timeline Since 1945 (CNN)

ca. 2000-1600 B.C. Xia dynasty ca. 10,000-300 B.C. Jomon
ca. 1600-1028 Shang dynasty
?1122-770 Western Zhou
770 - c. 256 Eastern Zhou
770-403 Spring & Autumn Annals
c. 403-221 Warring States period
c. 221-206 Qin dynasty 300 B.C. - ca. A.D. 250 Yayoi
206 B.C. - c. A.D. 8 Western Han A.D. 250 - ca. 600 Kofun
A.D. 25 - 220 Eastern Han ? 57 B.C. - A.D. 935 Shilla Kingdom
c. 220 - c. 280 Three Kingdoms
c. 222 - 589 Six Dynasties 552 - 645 Asuka period
265-420 Jin dynasty
420-589 Southern & Northern dynasties 646 - 794 Nara period
c. 581-618 Sui dynasty 794 - 1185 Heian period
618 - c. 907 Tang dynasty
1185 - 1333 Kamakura period 918 - 1392 Koryu Kingdom
960-1126 Northern Song dynasty 1333 - 1558 Ashikaga (aka Muromachi period)
c. 1127 - 1279 Southern Song 1558 - 1600 Warring States period
c. 1280 - 1368 Yuan (Mongol) dynasty 1600 - 1868 Tokugawa (aka Edo period)
1368 - c. 1644 Ming dynasty 1392 - 1910 Choson Kingdom
c. 1644 - 1912 Qing dynasty
1839 - 1842 Opium War; Hong Kong ceded to Britain 1868 - 1911 Meiji period
1912 - 1949 Republican China 1912 - 1926 Taisho (Yoshihito) 1910 - 1945 Colonization of Korea by Japan
1949 People's Republic of China proclaimed 1926 -1989 Showa (Hirohito) 1946 North Korea's Communist Party (Korean Workers' Party - KWP) inaugurated
1966 - 1976 Cultural Revolution August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped at Hiroshima 1948 Democratic People's Republic of Korea proclaimed. Soviet troops withdraw.
August 14, 1945, Japan surrendered to the Allied Forces 1950 South declares independence, sparking North Korean invasion.
1953 Armistice ends Korean War, which has cost two million lives
1989 - Heisei (Akihito) 1988 Seoul Olympics
1991 North and South Korea join the United Nations
     
     
     
     
2008 Beijing Olympics    
     
     
     
     

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