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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: 1454 births, 1454 deaths, 1454 establishments, 1454 in Europe, 1454 in international relations, 1454 in law, Conflicts in 1454, Amerigo Vespucci, Domenico Maria Novara da Ferrara, John II of Castile, John Kemp, Ermolao Barbaro, Choe Bu, Francesco Barbaro, Hakodate, Hokkaid, Jan Standonck, Poliziano, Pinturicchio, Battle of Clachnaharry, Catherine Cornaro, Francis Lovell, 1st Viscount Lovell, List of state leaders in 1454, Joanna of Aragon, Queen of Naples, Bogislaw X, Duke of Pomerania, Lady Margaret Butler, Robert Wingfield, Battle of Chojnice, Feast of the Pheasant, Treaty of Lodi, Rudolf of aga, Jakub of Gostynin, Alfonso Tellez-Giron, 1st Count of Urena, William Turnbull, Carlo Domenico del Carretto, Italic League, Komparu Zempo, Chodrak Gyatso, 7th Karmapa Lama, Henry Clifford, 10th Baron de Clifford, Rene, Duke of Alencon, Battle of Kru evac, Filippo Decio, Philippe de Culant, George Grey, 2nd Earl of Kent, William Babington, George II, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau, Binat Bibi Mosque, Margareta of Opole, Dobri Dobri evi, Agbarjin, Chiara Zorzi, Statutes of Nieszawa, John Kennedy, 2nd Lord Kennedy, Emr n, Uesugi Akisada, Robert de Baudricourt, Boles aw IV of Warsaw, Benedikt Rejt, Muhammed X, Sultan of Granada, Muhammed XI, Sultan of Granada, Konoe Tadatsugu. Excerpt: Choe Bu (1454-1504) was a Korean official during the early Joseon Dynasty (1392-1910). He is best known for the account of his shipwrecked travels in China from February to July 1488, during the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). He was eventually banished from the Joseon court in 1498 and executed in 1504 during two political purges. However, in 1506 he was exonerated and given posthumous honors by the Joseon court. Choe's diary accounts of his travels in China became widely printed in the 16th century in both Korea and Japan. Modern historians also util...