1044

• 천리장성이 완공KO

• 1042저화(楮貨)의 유통을 위해 한시적으로 상승오포(常五升布)의 사용을 금지시킴조선왕조실록 CD-ROM 간행위원회,
• 1046육위군(六衛軍)의 1령(領) 마다 300명을 선발하여 선봉군으로 선발함.
• 1046고려 문종 즉위
• 1046전정연립(田丁連立)은 적자(嫡子), 적손, 같은 어머니 자손, 첩의 자손, 딸의 자손 순서로 하게 함.

• The Wujing Zongyao was completed.
• Rebellions break out in Sichuan
• Song-Xia War (1040–1044): Western Xia and Song dynasty cease hostilities
• The chemical formula for gunpowder appears in the military manual Wujing Zongyao, also known as the Complete Essentials for the Military Classics.
• "Thunderclap bombs" are mentioned in the Wujing Zongyao.
• A "triple-bed-crossbow" firing fire arrows is mentioned in the Wujing Zongyao.
• Earliest recorded use of the compass for navigation
• Ou Xifan of the Ou clan rebels to the northwest of Yizhou in Guangnan West Circuit. Ou Xifan declares the Great Tang and wages war on the Song. He is caught a year later and executed by vivisection.
• 宋夏戰爭平息，雙方簽訂慶曆和議，宋朝承認西夏的割據地位。ZH

• 1042Song dynasty appoints Degai of the Mu'ege Kingdom as regional inspector
• 1042Song-Xia War (1040–1044): Western Xia conducts a full-scale invasion of the Song dynasty but is repelled
• 1042宋夏戰爭開始。
• 1042Song-Xia War (1040–1044): Khitans force the Song dynasty to increase annual tribute to 200,000 taels of silver and 300,000 bolts of silk
• 1043Ouyang Xiu and the vice chancellor Fan Zhongyan drafted the Qingli Reforms in Song.
• 1043遼興宗以國內西南部的党項叛附西夏為由，於隔年冬率大軍伐夏。西夏求和不成，採取堅壁清野方式擊潰遼軍。
• 1043Emperor Renzong of Song enacts the Confucian Qingli Reforms and schools are established at prefectures with sufficient number of students
• 1043The School of Four Gates opens - it provides students with a 500-day education, stipends, meals, a place in the dormitory, and exemption from the prefectural examinations
• 1043The Yao people of Guiyang rebel
• 1045The Lingxiao Pagoda was completed.
• 1046Proportion of jinshi degree holders in the Song dynasty bureaucracy reach a third of all total bureaucratic positions

• No events recorded for this year

• 1045Emperor Go-Reizei, accession

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