The Gwanggaeto Stele
A six-metre chronicle of a Goguryeo king's conquests
In 414 King Jangsu raised a stone stele more than six metres high over the tomb of his father, Gwanggaeto the Great. Some 1,800 characters recount the campaigns that made Goguryeo the leading power of Korea and Manchuria. Rediscovered in the 1880s, its passage about the Wa of Japan is still argued over by Korean, Japanese and Chinese historians.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Europe
- 395 Division of the Roman Empire — 19 years earlier
- 410 Sack of Rome by the Visigoths — 4 years earlier
Middle East
- c. 405 Mesrop Mashtots creates the Armenian alphabet — 9 years earlier
Americas
- c. 431 Ilopango eruption — 17 years later
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- Augustine of Hippo (aged 60)
- Attila (aged 8)
- Hypatia (aged 54)