Sejong the Great creates Hangul, the Korean alphabet
Known as Hangul in South Korea or Chosŏn’gŭl in North Korea, it is still the official writing system of Korea, both South Korea and North Korea.
Communication & language
Bi Sheng of China's Song Dynasty invents movable type
The world’s first movable type printing press technology for printing paper books was made of porcelain materials and was invented around C.E. 1040 in China during the Northern Song Dynasty by the inventor Bi Sheng.
Paper is invented in modern-day China
The oldest known archaeological fragments of the immediate precursor to modern paper date to the 2nd century B.C.E. in China.
Humans of Han Dynasty in modern-day China transform calligraphy into art
Calligraphy is considered as one of the four best friends of ancient Chinese literati, along with playing stringed musical instrument, the board game “go,” and painting.
The Phoenician alphabet, the oldest verified, is invented
It became one of the most widely used writing systems, spread by Phoenician merchants across the Mediterranean world, where it evolved and was assimilated by many other cultures.
Humans in ancient Iraq invent musical notation
The earliest form of musical notation can be found in a cuneiform tablet that was created at Nippur, in Sumer (today’s Iraq), in about 1400 B.C.E.
The Jiahu symbols of the Peiligang culture in China are created
A 2003 report in Antiquity interpreted them “not as writing itself, but as features of a lengthy period of sign-use which led eventually to a fully-fledged system of writing.
Humans invent pictograms, using symbols to represent objects, activities, and more
Early written symbols were based on pictographs (pictures which resemble what they signify) and ideogams (symbols which represent ideas).
Humans invent language
Today, there are various hypotheses about how, why, when, and where language might have emerged.[2]Despite this, there is scarcely more agreement today than a hundred years ago.