Nihon Shoki compiled
720 · Work
Imperially commissioned chronicle in classical Chinese; complement to the Kojiki, more historical in tone.
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- Edo period (1603)
- Commodore Perry opens Japan (1853)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Battle of Sekigahara (1600)
- VJ Day / surrender of Japan (1945)
- Kamakura shogunate established (1192)
- Oda Nobunaga (1534)
Around 720
- Hijra (622)
- Arab conquest of the Maghreb (647)
- Khmer Empire (Angkor) (802)
- Reign of Charlemagne (768)
- Death of Muhammad (632)
- Islamic Golden Age (750)
- Battle of Yarmouk (636)
- Abbasid Caliphate founded (750)
- Srivijaya Empire (650)
- Fall of the Sasanian Empire (651)