Gwanggaeto

By angella im
  • 374

    Gwanggaeto's birth

    Gwanggaeto's birth
    Gwanggaeto was born in 374CE
  • 400

    clans

    clans
    In 400, Later Yan, founded by the Murong clan of the Xianbei in present-day Liaoning province, attacked Goguryeo. Gwanggaeto responded swiftly, recovering most of the territory seized by the Xianbei and driving most of them from Goguryeo.
  • 413

    Death

    Death
    King Gwanggaeto died of unknown disease in 413, at the age of thirty-nine. Although Gwanggaeto ruled for only twenty-two years and died fairly young, his conquests are said to mark the high tide of Korean history
  • 420

    attack

    attack
    Then in 402, he decided to launch an attack on Later Yan itself, determined to protect his Kingdom from further threat.

  • king

    king
    At the age 17 he bedme king he called himself Supreme king

  • army

    army
    Gwanggaeto led his army against the neighboring kingdom of Baekje

  • take over

    take over
    in 395 he tried to take over Baekje

  • command

    command
    In 392, with Gwanggaeto in personal command, Goguryeo attacked Baekje with 50,000 cavalry, taking 10 walled cities along the two countries' mutual border. This offensive infuriated King Asin of Baekje and he subsequently planned a counter-offensive against Gwanggaeto, a plan he was forced to abandon when his invasion force was defeated by Goguryeo in 393.