Song Zhun of
Song dynastyChina completes the work of the earlier geographer Lu Duosun, an enormous
atlas of China that is written and illustrated in 1,556 chapters, showing maps of each region, city, town, and village (the atlas took 39 years to complete).
In the
Chola dynasty of southern India, the first votes are celebrated by adding a ballot in an urn.
Emperor Ichijō wants to retire – the influential statesman
Fujiwara no Michinaga supports Crown Prince
Okisada (now his son-in-law), who will be the successor, but the emperor prefers his eldest son by the late Empress
Teishi, Prince Atsuyasu, who has been raised by
Empress Shōshi, who also supports her stepson, leading to conflict at court.
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