Ireland vs Korea (Historic Timeline)

This is a timeline complied to compare the historic similarities or differences of Ireland and Korea. For more information, look at Urban Neighbourhood, where the real post is.

Korea	Ireland
8000 BC First pottery discovered. Strongly hints to agriculture, probably in the form of Kimchi pots	6500 BC First hunter gatherers arrive in Ireland. Hunters fail to hunt up a pub.
	4000 BC First agriculture in Ireland, surprisingly NOT potatoes
2333 BC Founding of Go-Joseon, Korea’s first Kingdom	3500 BC Passage graves built in Boyne Valley, any Irishman will tell you, twice, that they are older than Stonehenge
1000 BC Bronze age begins	2000 BC Bronze age begins
	500 BC Iron Age begins, Celts arrive, bringing with them lots of squiggly designs
300 BC Bronze cell phones considered too heavy, Iron Age begins	500 BC Greek writer calls Ireland “Holy Island” first time Ireland is considered worthy of mention
200 BC 5 city states begin to emerge in the south of Korea, warfare common	200 BC Ireland divided into upwards of 120 tiny ‘kingdoms’ or Tuath, with 5 regional kings holding power
57-18 BC 3 Kingdoms of Korea, Baekjae, Goguryeo and Shilla founded	100 BC Gaels arrive
250 AD First attacks of the Wae (Japanese) recorded. Warfare between 3 kingdoms continues	200 AD Unification of the country under the high king at Tara
372 AD Buddhism arrives in Goguryeo	431 AD First bishop from Rome arrives..dies
392 AD Goguryeo begins to push into Manchuria	432 AD St. Patrick arrives, snakes leave to form EU high commission in Brussels
527 Buddhism official religion of all three nations	550 AD Irish monks begin to bring Christianity to ruins of Roman Empire and Europe
598 Goguryeo fighting Sui China on the east and Baekjae and Shilla to the south
688 With help from Tang China, Shilla conquers all of the penninsula
892 Shilla hegemony begins to fail, next fifty years see civil war	800 AD First Viking raid
936 Goryeo dynasty unifies peninsula	914 Vikings begin colonizing Ireland, building what will become most of Irelands major cities
993 First of three major wars between Goryeo and their northern neighbours, the Khitan	1002 Brian Boru becomes High King of Ireland after defeating the Vikings in battle
1145 The Samgak Sagi is written, the first definitive Korean history	1014 Brian Boru defeats Vikings at Clontarf, dies
	1167 Normans invade, beginning of English influence
1231 Mongols begin invasions of Korea	1175 Last high king of Ireland dies
1234 First book printed on movable metal type	1272 Normans now control most of the island
1392 Goryeo general takes power, moves capital to modern day Seoul, founds Joseon dynasty	1361 All high ranking positions denied to pure blooded Irish
1446 Sejeong, the Great, a philosopher king, leads the invention of the Hangeul alphabet and many other scientific breakthroughs	1496 English pull back to ‘The Pale” the area around Dublin
1592 The horrendous Imjin war begins with Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s musket wielding armies invade and destroy Joseon	1510-50 Henry the 8th becomes King, splits with Catholic Rome, chaos reigns in Ireland
1598 After 7 years of war Admiral Yi Sun Shin’s Navy (with Korean and Chinese armies) frees Korea from the Japanese	1598 O’Neill’s rebellion against the English wins major victories
1627-36 Manchus invade much weakened Joseon	1603 Defeat, surrender and enforcement of English laws in Ireland
1653 First Dutch ship becomes wrecked on Jeju Island	1649 Cromwell lands in Ireland, population drops by 2/3rds
	1688-1691 James II deposed in England, battles William of Orange, ultimately, the Catholics of Ireland suffer most
1777 Catholicism is introduced	1798 Revolution and eventual defeat against the English
1811: Hong Gyeong-nae Rebellion in the north against Joseon dynasty	1845 Blight in the Potato Harvest, the Great Famine Begins
1866 First clash with the west, French land troops but are defeated	1849 Famine, population decreases by 2 million through death and emigration
1876 Japanese become involved in internal politics, Treaty of Gwangha forces ports to be opened	1870’s Gladstone, English Prime minister attempts and fails to solve the “Irish Question”
1894 Donghak Rebellion ignites first Sino-Japanese war, giving power to the Japanese in Korea	1879 Irish national league founded
1905 Japan declares Korea a protectorate, Japanese defeat Russians in Russo-Japanese war, proving Japan to be a rival to the Great Powers	1886 First Home Rule bill, but it is a failure
1910 Korea formally annexed as part of the Empire of Japan	1912 Third Home rule bill passed
1910-16 Rising resentment against Japanese grows, terror attacks across country	1914 Question of home rule scrapped at outset of The First World War
1916 “Righteous” rebels defeated by Japanese	1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, defeated by English
1919 Declaration of Korean Independence signed, peaceful March 3rd movement crushed	1919-1921 War for Independence waged by IRA against the British
1920 Battles between Japanese and Korean forces move into Manchuria, Koreans win some victories	1921 Peace. Signing of the Anglo-Irish treaty, IRA forced to accept loss of the 6 northern counties
1929 Gwangju student movement becomes new national anti-Japanese movement	1922-23 Civil war between the new Free State and the die-hard IRA
1930s Various Korean nationals bomb venues with Japanese dignitaries, some attacks succeed in killing important leaders	1937 Devalera, former die-hard IRA leader becomes Taoiseach, Ireland declares to rule all 32 counties
1945 Japanese surrender to the U.S. First Americans and Russians arrive to disarm Japanese troops	1939-45 Though a member of the British Commonwealth, Ireland chooses to remain neutral in the war
1948 2 different Korean Republics are declared, in Pyeongyang and Seoul	1949 The Republic of Ireland is declared, Ireland leaves the Commonwealth
1945-50 Running battles between Communists and Republic troops across southern Korea, massacres on both sides, largest, the Jeju massacre where 30 000 demonstrators and civilians are killed by Republic troops	1950-1962 IRA campaigns in the North
1950 North Korean troops attack South, Americans intervene with Incheon landing, changing the future of the war
1951 Chinese invade, war crosses and re-crosses Seoul again and again
1953 DMZ divides country, peace never officially signed, a difficult peace begins
1961 General Park Jung Hee takes control of the country, begins massive building projects and industrial reforms. Korea’s economy starts to boom.	1960’s Lemass attempts to build the economy with massive reforms, investments in education, and housing projects
1979-80 Park assassinated, new dictator steps in, massive protests and rising in Gwangju, army attacks students. Economy continues to boom	1969 ‘The Troubles’ start in Derry with massacre of Catholic family
1988 Olympics, pressure from outside media helps force first democratic elections. Booming economy.	1972 Ireland joins the EEC as the poorest nation
1990’s Korean economy increases rapidly, car ownership becomes the norm. Nation known as an “Asian Tiger”	1990’s Ireland’s economy booms with support from the EU, called the “Celtic Tiger”
1997 Economic collapse as the interwoven ‘chaebol’ or family owned consortiums tumble during the Asian economic crisis
2002 Share World Cup with Japan, pay off debt to the IMF
2008 For the first time national income passes $20 000 US, Korea is declared a developed nation by FTSE Global Equity Index Series.	2008 Ireland is second richest country in the EU (per person income)