Joseon king's flight to Uiju
Under the fifth month, the Ming History records that Joseon king Yi Yeon fled to Uiju to seek aid.
What this does and does not establish
Same pinned Ming History edition; the month is the annal's attribution, not independently corroborated by a Joseon account in this packet. The preceding invasion and capital-capture clauses are excluded from the selected event.
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- Region
- East Asia
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- 萬曆二十年五月
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Read ming020.wikitext, heading 406 and complete line 414, explicitly headed month 5. Both bounding calendar_headers and original files sinica-1591-12-31.html and sinica-1592-12-31.html were examined: Gregorian 1591-12-31 = Wanli 19/11/16; Gregorian 1592-12-31 = Wanli 20/11/28. Fifth month lies wholly in Julian AD 1592; the ten-day Gregorian-to-Julian adjustment leaves the year unchanged. No exact day is supplied. Original quotation begins at line 414, character 6885.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Ming shi (History of Ming), basic annals
Zhang Tingyu et al., Qing court historians
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
朝鮮王李昖奔義州求救。AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
The king of Joseon, Yi Yeon, fled to Uiju to seek rescue.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: 明史/卷20 https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=2594636 Public-domain historical original. Wikisource contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Attribute the fixed transcription and share adapted excerpts alike. Project working translation.
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-07. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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