Editing Timeline of Chinese history (section)

== 8th century ==
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| 704 || || The [[Giant Wild Goose Pagoda]] was rebuilt.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 705 || 22 February || [[Wu Zetian]] was forced to abdicate the throne in favor of her son [[Emperor Zhongzong of Tang]].
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| 23 February || [[Emperor Zhongzong of Tang|Zhongzong]] became [[emperor of China|emperor]] of [[Tang dynasty|Tang]].
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| 709 || || The [[Small Wild Goose Pagoda]] was completed.
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| rowspan="5" valign="top" | 710 || || [[Liu Zhiji]] compiled the ''[[Shitong]]''.
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| || [[Shangguan Wan'er]] died.
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| 3 July || [[Emperor Zhongzong of Tang|Zhongzong]] died after being poisoned, probably by his wife [[Empress Wei (Tang dynasty)|Empress Wei]].
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| 8 July || [[Emperor Zhongzong of Tang|Zhongzong's]] son [[Emperor Shang of Tang]] became [[emperor of China|emperor]] of [[Tang dynasty|Tang]], with [[Empress Wei (Tang dynasty)|Wei]] acting as regent.
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| 25 July || A ''coup'' led by [[Emperor Gaozong of Tang|Gaozong's]] daughter [[Princess Taiping]] and grandson [[Emperor Xuanzong of Tang]] killed [[Empress Wei (Tang dynasty)|Wei]] and deposed [[Emperor Shang of Tang|Shang]] in favor of his uncle, Gaozong's son [[Emperor Ruizong of Tang]].
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 712 || 8 September || [[Emperor Ruizong of Tang|Ruizong]] abdicated the throne to [[Emperor Xuanzong of Tang|Xuanzong]].
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| || The [[Pear Garden]] was established.
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| 713 || || The ''[[Kaiyuan Za Bao]]'' was first published.
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| 715 || || First encounter between the Tang dynasty and the [[Umayyad Caliphate|Umayyad Arabs]]. Tang dynasty defeats the Arab occupation force in [[Fergana Valley]], reinstalls [[Ikhshid]] on the throne.
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| 717 || || Arabs attack [[Transoxiana]] hoping to capture the Tang dynasty's [[Four Garrisons of Anxi]] district, but are routed in the [[Battle of Aksu (717)|Battle of Aksu]].
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| 725 || || [[Yi Xing]] invented a water-powered armillary sphere.
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| 729 || || [[Gautama Siddha]] completed the compilation of the ''[[Treatise on Astrology of the Kaiyuan Era]]''.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 740 || || [[Wu Daozi]] died.
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| || [[Meng Haoran]] died.
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| 744 || || [[Du Fu]] and [[Li Bai]] first met.
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| 751 || July || ''[[Battle of Talas]]'': After the defection of their [[Karluks|Karluk]] mercenaries, a [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] force was defeated by a vastly superior [[Abbasid Caliphate|Abbasid]]-[[Tibetan Empire|Tibetan]] allied army on the [[Talas River]], probably near modern [[Talas, Kyrgyzstan|Talas]].
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 755 || 16 December || ''[[An Lushan Rebellion]]'': The [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] ''[[jiedushi]]'' [[An Lushan]] declared himself [[emperor of China|emperor]] of [[Yan (An–Shi)|Yan]].
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| || [[Zhang Xuan]] died.
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" | 756 || Spring || ''[[Battle of Yongqiu]]'': [[Yan (An–Shi)|Yan]] forces retreated from their siege of a [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] fortress in Yongqiu, in modern [[Kaifeng]].
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| 12 August || The [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] army declared [[Emperor Xuanzong of Tang|Xuanzong's]] son [[Emperor Suzong of Tang]] [[emperor of China|emperor]] at [[Lingwu]].
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| 10 September || [[Emperor Xuanzong of Tang|Xuanzong]] recognized [[Emperor Suzong of Tang|Suzong]] as emperor.
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| 757 || || ''[[Battle of Suiyang]]'': [[Yan (An–Shi)|Yan]] forces finally conquered Suiyang, in modern [[Suiyang District]], after a siege that cost the lives of some sixty thousand Yan soldiers and thirty thousand [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] civilians were lost to starvation and cannibalism.
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| 758 || || [[Arabs|Arab]] and [[Persian people|Persian]] [[piracy|pirates]] looted and burned the [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] seaport of [[Guangzhou]].
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| 759 || || [[Wang Wei (Tang dynasty)|Wang Wei]] died.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 760 || || [[Lu Yu]] composed ''[[The Classic of Tea]]''.
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| || ''[[Yangzhou massacre (760)]]'': Arab and Persian merchants are killed by Chinese rebels.
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| rowspan="3" valign="top" | 762 || 16 May || [[Emperor Suzong of Tang|Suzong]] died of a heart attack.
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| 18 May || [[Emperor Suzong of Tang|Suzong's]] son [[Emperor Daizong of Tang]] became [[emperor of China|emperor]] of the [[Tang dynasty]].
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| || [[Du Huan]] wrote the ''[[Jingxingji]]''.
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| 763 || || ''An Lushan Rebellion'': The [[Yan (An–Shi)|Yan]] emperor [[Shi Chaoyi]] committed suicide in flight from [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] forces.
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| rowspan="2" valign="top" | 779 || 23 May || [[Emperor Daizong of Tang|Daizong]] died.
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| 12 June || [[Emperor Daizong of Tang|Daizong's]] son [[Emperor Dezong of Tang]] became [[emperor of China|emperor]] of the [[Tang dynasty]].
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| 781 || || The [[Nestorian Stele]] was composed.
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| 783 || || [[Han Gan]] died.
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| 785 || || The [[Tang dynasty|Tang]] official [[Jia Dan]] began work on a map of Tang and its former colonies.
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| 794 || || Prince Li Gao ordered the construction of the first Chinese paddle-wheel ships.
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