Yi Sun-sin

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   1592 – 1598Nanjung Ilgi (War Diary of Yi Sun-sin)author

   The diary Yi Sun-sin kept in camp through the seven years of the Imjin War; Memory of the World since 2013.

2. 1592 – 1598Imjin Warcommander

   A seven-year war that began with Japan's invasion of Joseon in 1592 and lasted until 1598. Ming China sent troops, turning it into an East Asian international war.

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   1592Battle of Okpocommander

   The Joseon navy under Yi Sun-sin won its first major victory over the Japanese fleet at Okpo on Geoje Island.

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   1592Battle of Sacheoncommander

   Yi Sun-sin’s fleet destroyed 13 Japanese ships at Sacheon. The turtle ship fought for the first time, and Yi was shot in the shoulder.

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   1592Battle of Hansandocommander

   Yi Sun-sin lured the Japanese fleet out of the Gyeonnaeryang strait and crushed it off Hansando with his crane-wing formation, closing the western sea route to Japanese supply.

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   1592Battle of Busanpocommander

   Yi Sun-sin attacked the Japanese base at Busan and destroyed some 100 ships at anchor. Jeong Un, commander of Nokdo, was killed.

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   1597Battle of Myeongnyangcommander

   Restored to command, Yi Sun-sin used the fierce currents of the Uldolmok strait to beat back some 130 Japanese ships with his remaining 13.

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   1598Battle of Noryangcommander

   The allied Joseon and Ming fleets intercepted the withdrawing Japanese navy at Noryang and won a major victory. Yi Sun-sin was killed in the battle.

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• Won Gyun1540 – 1597

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  From the Japanese invasion to the Battle of Noryang — the righteous armies, Yi Sun-sin at sea, and Ming intervention

• Ming, Qing and Edo Japan1500 – 1800

  The age when the Ming, shaken by northern raiders, southern pirates and the silver economy, fell to Li Zicheng’s rebels, and the Manchu Qing reached its greatest extent and prosperity under Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong — as Japan was unified out of the Warring States into the Edo shogunate’s bakuhan order and closed country, and Joseon, after two great wars, met its neighbours through embassies to Edo and the Northern Learning

• Islamic Empires and the Atlantic World1500 – 1800

  Three centuries in which the Ottomans of Suleiman I, the Mughals of Akbar and the Safavids of Abbas I flourished and then faltered, while across the Atlantic the slave trade and colonies transformed the Americas, leading to American independence

• Reformation and Absolutism1517 – 1796

  From Luther’s Ninety-five Theses to Catherine the Great — the wars of religion of a divided Christendom ended at Westphalia, and absolute monarchs armed with divine right, standing armies, bureaucracies and mercantilism, followed by the enlightened despots of eastern Europe, contended for the balance of power among sovereign states

• Printing and Documentary HeritageAD 751 – 2011

  From the Dharani Sutra to the May 18 archives — woodblock and metal-type printing, and the records inscribed on the Memory of the World