East Asia in the early modern world (1500 – 1800). Oceans became highways, gunpowder empires rose, and the scientific revolution began. These articles cover the three centuries in which the world's regions first became one system.
The Seonjo sillok records 63 Japanese ships burned at Hansan Island; the Korean History Chronology counts 59 lost and 14 escaping. Both are given here.
· 1592Tokugawa Ieyasu broke Ishida Mitsunari's western army in a few foggy hours on October 21, 1600, redistributed a third of Japan and became shogun in 1603.
· 1600What the Ming History says Ricci offered the Wanli court in 1601, the six-panel world map of 1602, the Chinese Euclid of 1607, the grave granted in 1610.
· 1601Thunberg put Dejima at about 600 feet by 120. Nagasaki merchants built it in 1634–1636 and let it to the Dutch East India Company from 1641 to 1859.
· 1641Hamel's 1668 Journael counts 36 survivors of the Sperwer's 64; the Jeju magistrate's 1653 report in the Sillok counts 38. Thirteen years; eight escaped.
· 1653Two Jesuits, Tomás Pereira and Jean-François Gerbillon, put the 1689 Qing-Russian talks at Nerchinsk into Latin, the language both sides depended on.
· 1689Mount Fuji erupted from a new southeast vent on December 16, 1707, for 16 days. Ash buried Subashiri and fell on Edo; a levy and floods followed.
· 1707
