According to Samguk Sagi, in 637, Kim Yu-sin, a Korean general of Silla rallied his troops to defeat rebels by lofting a kite with a straw man which looked like a burning ball flying to the sky.

According to an 11th-century Korean chronicle the Samguk Yusa, the wife of King Suro of the ancient Korean kingdom of Geumgwan Gaya was a princess who travelled by boat from a faraway land called Ayuta to Korea in 48 CE.

According to the mythic history in the Samguk Yusa, the Gojoseon ( Old Joseon ) was founded in northern Korea and Manchuria in 2333 BCE.

According to the Korean historical document Samguk Sagi ( 삼국사기, 三國史記 ), Goguryeo sent a diplomatic representative to the Han Dynasty in 32 AD, and the Emperor Guangwu of Han granted the official rank of Goguryeo.

* According to the Samguk Sagi ( Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms ), Baekje and Silla sent their princes as hostages to the Yamato court in exchange for military support to continue their already-begun military campaigns ; King Asin of Baekje sent his son Jeonji in 397 and King Silseong of Silla sent his son Misaheun in 402.

According to the history records in Japan ( Nihon Shoki ) and Korea ( Samguk Sagi ), Korean prince was sent to Japan as a hostages.

According to the Samguk Sagi and Samguk Yusa, two bands of females called Wonhwa ( 원화, 源花, " original flowers ") preceded the Hwarang.

According to the Hwarang Segi, as cited in the Samguk Sagi and Haedong Gosuengjeon, “... able ministers and loyal subjects are chosen from them, and good generals and brave soldiers are born therefrom .”

According to the Samguk Sagi, King Asin of Baekje sent his son Jeonji to Japan in 397 and King Silseong of Silla sent his son Misaheun to Japan in 402 in order to solicit military aid.

According to the Samguk Sagi ( Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms ), written in 1145, King Asin sent his son Jeonji as a hostage in 397.

According to Samguk Sagi, in 504, the tribute emissary Yesilbu mentions that the gold of Buyeo can no longer be obtainable for tribute as Buyeo has been driven out by the Malgal and the Somna and absorbed into Baekje.

According to the Samguk Sagi and other accounts, the kingdom of Dongbuyeo ( 86 BCE – 22 CE ) branched out to the east of Bukbuyeo, near the land of Okjeo.

According to the Samguk Sagi, Hyeokgeose and his queen traveled the realm in 41 BC, helping the people improve their harvests.

According to Samguk Yusa, Cheomseongdae was constructed under the reign of Queen Seondeok ( 632-647 ) near the capital of the kingdom.

According to " Geographies " in Samguk Sagi, Daegaya existed for about 520 years from the first king, Ijinashi ( 이진아시왕 ), to the last, Doseolji ( 도설지왕 ).

According to the Samguk Yusa, Geumgwan Kaya was made of 9 villages united by King Suro of Gaya.

According to the Samguk Sagi, he was the ancestor of all Baekje kings.

According to Samguk Sagi, he ordered the cultivation of land to the south, and banned the fermentation of alcohol in 38 because of a poor harvest.

According to the history compilation Samguk Sagi, he was the son of the previous king Giru.

According to the Samguk Sagi ( Chronicles of the Three Kingdoms ), written in 1145, the geomungo was invented by prime minister Wang San-ak by using the form of the ancient Chinese instrument guqin ( also called chilhyeongeum, literally " seven-string zither ").

According to book 46, biography section of Samguk Sagi, he wrote several books.

According to the Samguk Sagi, Kim Dae-Mun explained that the title " Chachaung " meant a shaman in Old Korean.

According to Samguk Sagi ( the oldest surviving Korean history book, written in the 12th century ), Onjo, the son of Goguryeo's founder Jumong, founded the nation of Sipje ( 십제, 十濟 ; later became Baekje ) on Wiryeseong in 18 BCE, while his elder brother Biryu established himself in Michuhol ( 미추홀, 彌鄒忽 ) further to the west.

According to a legend in the Samguk Yusa, Mu was a Baekje peasant who married Princess Seonhwa of Silla ( making her Uija's mother ), but this is not considered orthodox history.

According to the Samguk Yusa, this ban was established in the twelfth lunar month of 599.

According to the Samguk Sagi, Saban was found too young to rule and quickly succeeded ( the Samguk Yusa says deposed ) by King Goi, the younger brother of the 5th king Chogo.

According to the founding legend of Geumgwan Gaya recorded in the 13th century texts of the chronicle Garakguk-gi ( hangul: 가락국기, hanja: 駕洛國記 ) of Samguk Yusa, King Suro was one of six princes born from eggs that descended from the sky in a golden bowl wrapped in red cloth.

According to the Samguk Yusa, a 13th century Korean record of history and fable that deals with the period in question, the fortress ( known as Mobeol prefectural fortress ) required the labor of nearly 40, 000 men, a massive mustering of manpower that is testimony of the increasing power of the centralized monarchy.

According to the Samguk Yusa, he was descended from King Jinheung of Silla, but clearly his branch of the family had lost its royal connection some time before.

According to the Samguk Yusa, Heo's parents had a dream of King Suro.

According to Arab tradition, the ensuing war pushed Ghana over the edge, ending the kingdom's position as a commercial and military power by 1100, as it collapsed into tribal groups and chieftaincies, some of which later assimilated into the Almoravids while others founded the Mali Empire.

According to a single unsupported piece of recent research, refugees from the collapsed Assyrian Empire claim to have reached the region of Lake Chad and founded the kingdoms of Kanem and Kebbi.

According to sources such as the History of Bede, after the invasion of Britannia, the Angles split up and founded the kingdoms of the Nord Angelnen ( Northumbria ), Ost Angelnen ( East Anglia ), and the Mittlere Angelnen ( Mercia ).

According to Elaine Hoffman, Gropius had approached the Dutch architect Mart Stam to run the newly founded architecture program, and when Stam declined the position, Gropius turned to Stam's friend and colleague in the ABC group, Hannes Meyer.

According to tradition, Bernard founded the monastery on 25 June 1115, naming it Claire Vallée, which evolved into Clairvaux.

According to the legend Orestes founded Nemi together with Iphigenia.

According to Irenaeus, a 2nd century Church Father, the church at Rome was founded directly by the apostles Peter and Paul.

According to Acts of the Apostles, Paul founded the church in Corinth ( Acts 18: 1 – 17 ), then spent approximately three years in Ephesus ( Acts 19: 8, 19: 10, 20: 31 ).

According to occultist Israel Regardie, the Golden Dawn had spread to the United States of America before 1900 and a Thoth-Hermes temple had been founded in Chicago.

According to the Sejarah Melayu (" Malay Annals "), the Khmer prince Raja Ganji Sarjuna founded the kingdom of Gangga Negara ( modern-day Beruas, Perak ) in the 700s.

According to Matthew Paris, the 13th century chronicler of St Albans Abbey, Abbot Ulsinus ( Wulsin ) founded three churches in 948, reputedly to tend to the physical and spiritual needs of the growing number of pilgrims to Alban's shrine: St Peter's, St Stephen's and St Michael's.

According to the legendary Historia Regum Britanniae, of Geoffrey of Monmouth, London was founded by Brutus of Troy after he defeated the incumbent giants Gog and Magog and was known as, ( Latin for New Troy ), which, according to a pseudo-etymology, was corrupted to Trinovantum.

According to the legend, King Abenner or Avenier in India persecuted the Christian Church in his realm, founded by the Apostle Thomas.

According to the introduction of The Book of Five Rings, Musashi states that his first successful duel was at the age of thirteen, against a samurai named Arima Kihei who fought using the Kashima Shintō-ryū style, founded by Tsukahara Bokuden ( b. 1489, d. 1571 ).

According to one of the various myths about him, he founded Ife and dispatched his sons and daughters to establish similar kingdoms in other parts of what is today known as Yorubaland.

According to legend Romulus established the Senate after he founded Rome by personally selecting the most noble men ( wealthy men with legitimate wives and children ) to serve as a council for the city.

According to tradition, San Marino was founded in 301 AD when a Christian stonemason named Marinus the Dalmatian, later venerated as Saint Marinus, emigrated in 257 AD from the Dalmatian island of Rab, then a Roman colony, when the emperor Diocletian issued a decree calling for the reconstruction of the city walls of Rimini which had been destroyed by Liburnian pirates.

According to Herodotus ( 4. 149-165 ), following a drought of seven years, Thera sent out colonists who founded a number of cities in northern Africa, including Cyrene.

According to Muslims, sharia law is founded on the words of Allah as revealed in the Quran, and traditions gathered from the life of the Prophet Muhammad.

According to later traditions, he had some adventures and founded Canusium and Argyrippa in Southern Italy.

According to the Jamadevivamsa, the city of Hariphunchai ( modern Lamphun ) was founded by the hermits ; Jamadevi, a Lavo princess, was invited to rule the city in around 700 AD.

According to the legendarium recorded in the 12th-century Gesta Treverorum, the city was founded by an eponymous otherwise unrecorded Trebeta, an Assyrian prince, placing the city's founding legend centuries before and independently of ancient Rome: a medieval inscription on the facade of the Red House in Trier market,

According to legend, the city of Rome was founded in 753 BC on the banks of the Tiber about from the sea at Ostia.

According to this account, Cisaria was founded by Swabian tribes as a defence against Roman incursions.

According to it, the clan was founded during the 1st century BC by Pah-Peh-Rheo, an Egyptian, who had become a Roman citizen as Petronius Paperonius.