* I've moved the discussion below from the Their America timeline area where it first appeared.
Jeehyun Lim
Re: TIMELINE - WHICH EVENTS SHOULD BE THERE?
on: September 26, 2013, 10:18 QUOTE REMOVE EDIT
Here's my suggestion for a simple timeline of Korean contact with the U.S. from the 17th century up to 1943:
The Dutchman Hendrick Hamel is stranded on Jeju Island off the southern coast of Korea in 1653 on his way to Japan. He later published his experience as a journal, The Journal of the Unfortunate Voyage of the Sperwer, when he escaped and returned to the Netherlands.
Yi Sung-Hun becomes the first baptized Korean Catholic. Baptized in Beijing by French Catholic priests, Yi returns to Korea in 1784 and spreads Catholicism.
The General Sherman, an American merchant schooner seeking trade, is attacked near Pyongyang in 1866.
The U.S. occupies Kanghwado in reprisal for the attack on General Sherman. This is known as Shinmiyangyo in Korea and the 1871 U.S. Korean Campaign in the U.S.
Treaty of Peace, Amity, Commerce and Navigation (known as Jemulpo Treaty in Korea) is signed between Korea and the U.S. in 1882.
Horace Newton Allen, the first American Protestant resident missionary in Korea, arrives in Korea in 1884.
The Bible is translated into Korean for the first time by John Ross, a presbyterian missionary based in Manchuria, in 1887.
The first group of Korean immigrants (56 men, 21 women, 25 children) arrive in Honolulu in 1903 to work on sugar plantations.
Japan takes over Korea's foreign affairs in 1905. All foreign missions in Korea are closed and all Korean diplomats in foreign countries recalled.
By the time Japan annexes Korea in 1910, there are approximately 800 schools established by U.S. missionaries.
Approximately 1000 Korean mail-order brides came to Hawaii and the U.S. mainland between 1910 when U.S. immigration first allowed mail-order brides and 1924 when Asian exclusion laws were enacted.
Pearl Harbor prompts U.S. Military Order No. 45, which grants Koreans in the U.S. non-enemy alien status. Between 1910 and 1943, Koreans in the U.S. were treated as Japanese citizens.
I'll post another suggestion on the post-1943 timeline later.
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Nick Ferns
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Nick Ferns
Re: TIMELINE - WHICH EVENTS SHOULD BE THERE?
on: September 26, 2013, 20:22 QUOTE REMOVE EDIT
Thanks for that suggestion, I'll add some of those Korean moments to the timeline!
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