Silla was one of the Three Kingdoms of Korea, traditionally founded by Park Hyeokgeose in the southeast of the peninsula, with its capital at Gyeongju. At first the smallest of the three, it allied with Tang China and defeated Baekje and Goguryeo, unifying most of the peninsula in the 670s as Unified Silla. Its society was rigidly divided by the bone-rank system. The kingdom was a center of Buddhist culture, with the temple of Bulguksa, the Seokguram grotto, the Cheomseongdae observatory and magnificent gold crowns, and it traded with China and Japan. It declined in the 9th century as local lords rebelled, and the last king surrendered to Wang Geon, the founder of Goryeo.
Before and after
- 58 BCEPublication of Commentarii de Bello Gallico
- 58 BCEBattle of Vosges
- 58 BCEBattle of the Arar
- from 58 BCE to 51 BCEGallic War
- from 57 BCE to 935 CESilla
- 55 BCEOrigins of Theatre of Pompey
- from 54 BCE to 628 CERoman–Persian Wars
- c. 50 BCEEruption of Apoyeque
- 49 BCECaesar defeats Pompey at Pharsalus
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