Timeline of Seoul

The following is a timeline of the history of the city of Seoul, South Korea.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

Prior to 14th century

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Prehistoric period
Palaeolithic 700,000 BC-8000 BC
Neolithic 8000 BC–1500 BC
* Jeulmun
Bronze Age 1500 BC–300 BC
* Mumun
* Liaoning dagger
Ancient period
Gojoseon 2333 BC–108 BC
* Dangun
* Gija
* Wiman
Jin 4th–2nd century BC
Yemaek
Proto–Three Kingdoms period
Three Kingdoms period
Goguryeo 37 BC–668 AD
Baekje 18 BC–660 AD
Silla 57 BC–935 AD
Gaya confederacy 42–562
Tamna (Tributary of Baekje) 498–660
Usan 512–930
Northern and Southern period
United Silla (Unified Silla) 668–892
Balhae 698–926
Little Goguryeo 699–820
Tamna (Tributary of Silla) 662–925
Later Three Kingdoms period
Later Baekje 892–936
Taebong (Later Goguryeo) 901–918
Unified Silla (Later Silla) 892–935
Later Sabeol 919–927
Dongdan Kingdom 926–936
Later Balhae 927–935
Jeongan 938–986
Dynastic period
Goryeo 918–1392
Tamna (Vassal of Goryeo) 938–1105
Heungyo 1029–1030
Joseon 1392–1897
Korean Empire 1897–1910
Colonial period
Japanese occupation 1910–1945
Provisional Government 1919–1948
Modern period
Military governments 1945–1948
North-South division 1945–present
* North 1948–present
* South 1948–present
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  • 18 BCE – Baekje, Wirye-seong, settled. Seoul started functioning as the royal capital of Baekje until 475.
  • 475 – Seoul changed hands from Baekje to Goguryeo.
  • 551 – Seoul changed hands from Goguryeo to Baekje.
  • 553 – Seoul changed hands from Baekje to Silla.
  • 901 – Seoul under control of Taebong as Silla became divided into three kingdoms.
  • 918 – Seoul became a part of newly founded Goryeo as the prior regime Taebong was overthrown.
  • 1104 – Sukjong of Goryeo builds a palace in Seoul and declared it the second capital 'Namgyeong' meaning 'Southern Capital'.

14th-18th century

18th-19th century

20th century

1900s-1950s

1960s-1990s

21st century

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c d Bishop, Isabella Lucy Bird; Howarth, Osbert John Radcliffe (1911). "Korea" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 15 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 908–913.
  2. ^ "WorldCat". USA: Online Computer Library Center. Retrieved 12 February 2013.[clarification needed]
  3. ^ a b Hunter 1977.
  4. ^ a b Henry 2005.
  5. ^ Britannica 1910.
  6. ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 or more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1955. New York: Statistical Office of the United Nations.
  7. ^ a b c Yeong-Hyun Kim 2004.
  8. ^ "Population of capital city and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". Demographic Yearbook 1975. New York: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office. 1976. pp. 253–279.
  9. ^ "San Francisco Sister Cities". USA: City & County of San Francisco. Retrieved 30 December 2015.
  10. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1985 Demographic Yearbook. New York: United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office. 1987. pp. 247–289.
  11. ^ "A history of cities in 50 buildings", The Guardian, UK, 2015
  12. ^ "Population of capital cities and cities of 100,000 and more inhabitants". 1995 Demographic Yearbook. New York: United Nations Department for Economic and Social Information and Policy Analysis, Statistics Division. 1997. pp. 262–321.
  13. ^ Hong 2013.
  14. ^ Jesook Song 2006.
  15. ^ "Get to Know Us". Seoul Metropolitan Government. Archived from the original on 13 April 2013. Retrieved 12 February 2013.
  16. ^ Seoul Population. (2018-12-01). Retrieved 2019-04-01, from http://worldpopulationreview.com/world-cities/seoul/
  17. ^ Sang-Hun, Choe (29 October 2022). "The Itaewon tragedy is the worst peacetime disaster in South Korea since the Sewol ferry sank in 2014, killing more than 300 people". The New York Times. Retrieved 1 November 2022.

Bibliography

  • Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1910). "Seoul" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 24 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 667–668.
  • T. Philip Terry (1928). "Seoul (Keijo)". Terry's guide to the Japanese empire: including Korea and Formosa. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. hdl:2027/mdp.39015062262517 – via HathiTrust.
  • Janet Hunter (1977). "Japanese Government Policy, Business Opinion and the Seoul—Pusan Railway, 1894—1906". Modern Asian Studies. 11 (4): 573–599. doi:10.1017/s0026749x00000573. S2CID 106432258.
  • Yeong-Hyun Kim (2004), "Seoul", in Josef Gugler (ed.), World Cities Beyond the West, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521830034
  • Todd A. Henry (2005). "Sanitizing Empire: Japanese Articulations of Korean Otherness and the Construction of Early Colonial Seoul, 1905-1919". Journal of Asian Studies. 64.
  • Jesook Song (2006). "Historicization of Homeless Spaces: The Seoul Train Station Square and the House of Freedom". Anthropological Quarterly. 79. George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research.
  • Sharon Hong (2013), "Seoul", Transforming Asian Cities, UK: Routledge
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