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Landmark East Asia religious

Haeinsa Temple

802 CE – still standing

One of Korea's Three Jewel Temples, home to the Tripitaka Koreana — over 80,000 13th-century woodblocks of the Buddhist canon

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Who held this ground

Borders from dated snapshots, up to a century apart; precision varies.

Reconstruction

  1. Before it was built (3000 BCE–800 CE)
  2. Silla (900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  3. Korea (1000 CE–1100 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  4. Goryeo (1200 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  5. Great Khanate (1279 CE–1300 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  6. Ming Empire (1400 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  7. Korea (1492 CE–1900 CE) Border precision: Approximate
  8. Empire of Japan (1914 CE–1938 CE) Border precision: Defined
  9. Korea (USA) (1945 CE) Border precision: Defined
  10. South Korea (1960 CE–2026 CE) Border precision: Defined
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  • Approximate

Elsewhere in East Asia at the time

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China

Founded 1945 CE · attested to 2026 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Gyeongju Historic Areas

57 BCE – 935 CE

Trade route · East Asia

Silk Road

200 BCE – 1450 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Sengoku Period (Japanese Warring States)

1467 CE – 1615 CE

Polity · East Asia

Manchu Empire

Attested 1650 CE – 1914 CE

Landmark · East Asia

Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary

400 CE – 1400 CE

Trade route · East Asia

Maritime Silk Road

200 BCE – 1500 CE

Conflict · East Asia

Qing Conquest of Ming Dynasty

1618 CE – 1683 CE

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 802 CE and 2026 CE.

802 CE Wars of the Khmer Empire 893 CE Preah Vihear Temple 907 CE Khitan Liao Wars 960 CE Kaifeng 979 CE Song–Liao Wars

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

Machu Picchu Landmark · Americas 1450 CE – still standing Tibet Polity · South Asia 1000 CE – 1960 CE Mesoamerican Trade Network Trade route · Americas 1200 BCE – 1521 CE World War I Conflict · Europe 1914 CE – 1918 CE Charlemagne Figure · Frankish Empire 742 CE – 814 CE Taj Mahal Landmark · South Asia 1632 CE – still standing
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