However, King Gojong used term of " His Majesty the Great Monarch " ( Hangul: 대군주폐하, Hanja: 大君主陛下 ) not officlal imperial title.

In 1897, King Gojong proclaimed the founding of the Korean Empire ( 1897 – 1910 ), and became emperor of Korea.

In 1863, King Gojong took the throne of Joseon Dynasty when he was a child.

* 1851 – Empress Myeongseong, first official wife of Korean King Gojong ( d. 1895 )

In 1897, Joseon was renamed the Korean Empire, and King Gojong became Emperor Gojong.

At the same time, King Gojong and the crown prince approached the Mongols to restore power from Kim Jun.

On August 4, 1896, King Gojong issued Royal Order 36, repealing the district system and restoring the province system.

To once again implore divine assistance with combating the Mongol threat, King Gojong thereafter ordered the revision and re-creation of the Tripitaka ; the carving took 16 years, from 1236 to 1251, with support from the Choe House and involving monks from both the Seon and Gyo schools.

The Gabo Reform describes a series of sweeping reforms introduced in Joseon Dynasty Korea beginning in 1894 and ending in 1896, during the reign of King Gojong, in response to the Donghak Peasant Revolution.

After King Gojong and the crown prince fled for refuge to the Russian legation in 1896, this opposition resulted in the murders of Kim Hongjip and other cabinet members, and the reformations came to an end.

In 1895 ( the 32nd year of the reign of King Gojong ), the five-century-old provincial system was abolished.

The new system of districts did not last long, however, as one year later, on August 4, 1896 ( the 33rd year of King Gojong ), the former eight provinces were restored, with five of them ( Chungcheong, Gyeongsang, Jeolla, Hamgyŏng, and P ' yŏngan ), being divided into north and south halves, to form a total of 13 provinces.

The French campaign against Korea of 1866, United States expedition to Korea in 1871 and the Incident of Japanese gunboat Unyo put pressure on many of Joseon's officials, including King Gojong.

King Gojong began to rely on newer, rifle-equipped armies, who were paid.

On 11 February 1896, King Gojong and his crown prince fled from the Gyeongbokgung palace to the Russian legation in Seoul, from which they governed for about one year, an event known as Korea royal refuge at the Russian legation.

In 1897, King Gojong, yielding to rising pressure from overseas and the demands of the Independence Association-led public opinion, returned to Gyeongungung ( modern-day Deoksugung ).

This effectively ended Korea's historic subordination to the Qing Chinese empire which Korea had acknowledged since the fall of the Ming Dynasty, and turned King Gojong into the Gwangmu Emperor, the first imperial head of state and hereditary sovereign of the Empire of Korea.

* His Majesty King Gojong of Korea ( 1863 – 1897 )

# Gaeguk ( 開國, 개국: used for the reign of King Gojong 1894-1895 )

# Geonyang ( 建陽, 건양: used for the reign of King Gojong 1896-1897 )

Queen Min ( later became Empress Myeongseong ), the consort of King Gojong, also recognized this change and formally established closer diplomatic relations with Russia to counter Japanese influence.

With the assassination of his wife Empress Myeongseong, King Gojong and Crown Prince ( later became Emperor Sunjong ) fled to the Russian legation in 1896.

In 1897, King Gojong, yielding to rising pressure from both overseas and the demands of the Independence Association-led public opinion, returned to Gyeongungung ( modern-day Deoksugung ).

King Gojong became the Gwangmu Emperor, the first imperial head of state and hereditary sovereign of the Empire of Korea.

In January 1688, Innocent also received the diplomatic mission which had been dispatched to France and the Vatican by Narai, the King of Siam under Fr.

* 1251 – Andrew of Longumeau, dispatched two years earlier by King Louis IX of France as an ambassador to the Mongols, returns to his king with reports from the Mongols and Tartary ; his mission is considered a failure.

* Andrew de Longjumeau, dispatched two years earlier by King Louis IX of France as an ambassador to the Mongols, meets the king in Palestine, with reports from the Mongols and Tartary ; his mission is considered a failure.

In response, King Louis XV dispatched six regiments to New France under the command of Baron Dieskau in 1755.

* February 16 – Andrew of Longjumeau is dispatched by King Louis IX of France as an ambassador to meet with the Khan of the Mongols.

Emissaries were immediately dispatched to inform King Philip IV of France of the intentions of the English.

The Earl of Warwick, who had been dispatched by Margaret to England to restore King Henry to the throne, succeeded in this task but was defeated and killed in battle ( battle of Barnet, April 1471 ) a few months later.

Ahmad bin Yahya, King of North Yemen, dispatched Crown Prince Imam Badr to Damascus with proposals to include their country in the new republic.

* The Persian general, Struthas is dispatched by King Artaxerxes II to take command of the satrapy of Sardis, replacing Tiribazus, and to pursue an anti-Spartan policy.

That done, the King dispatched Percy's head to York, where it was impaled on one of the city's gates ; his four quarters were sent to London, Newcastle upon Tyne, Bristol, and Chester before they were finally delivered to his widow.

In 191 BC, he was appointed military tribune ( some affirm legate ), under the Consul Manius Acilius Glabrio, who was dispatched to Greece to oppose the invasion of Antiochus III the Great, King of the Seleucid Empire.

In response, the King assembled an army of 20, 000 under the command of General Carlo Filangieri and dispatched it to Sicily to subdue the Liberals and restore his authority.

The stallion is believed to have been captured by Captain Robert Byerley at the Battle of Buda ( 1686 ), served as Byerley's war horse when he was dispatched to Ireland in 1689 during King William's War and saw further military service in the Battle of the Boyne.

Having learned of the King's actions in Nottingham, Parliament dispatched its own army northward under the Earl of Essex, to confront the King Charles.

He explored the coast, realizing that the large land mass was probably a continent, and dispatched a ship to notify King Manuel I of the new territory.

King Stephen Dabiša dispatched Duke Vlatko Vuković and Prince Pavle Radenović to Konavle already in 1391, and they kicked out the Sankovićs and split their lands.

The Ottoman Turks started to invade Bosnia again and in 1392, King Stephen Dabiša dispatched Duke Hrvoje Vukčić, who decisively defeated the Turks.

Vanier ( seated, right ), with William Lyon Mackenzie King ( seated, centre ), and other members of the Canadian delegation dispatched to the United Kingdom to discuss war planning, 1941

In an attempt to regain some authority, the Frankfurt Assembly dispatched a delegation to offer King Frederick William IV the crown of German emperor in April 1849.

King Xiaocheng of Zhao () accepted and dispatched Lian Po and an army to secure the strategic territory from the encroaching Qin.

When the Witch threatens the King of Ingary's young daughter, he is dispatched to the Waste by the King.

King Magneto's mutant supremacy saw this as an act against mutantkind, and Sentinels were dispatched to destroy Muir Island and capture Moira.

The King George Sound settlement was a hastily dispatched British military outpost, intended to forestall any plans by France for settlements in Western Australia.