Chinese Dynasties

TANG / T'ANG DYNASTY
AD 617 - 689

617 - 626

Li Yuan (Gaozu / Kao Tsu)

626 - 649

Taizong (T'ai Tsung / Li Shih-min)

630 - 700

Legendary life of Ti Jen-chieh (Di Renjie) Judge Dee. Nestorian missionaries arrive in Ch'ang-an in 635. Conquest of Tarim Basin in 645.

645 - 647

An attempt to occupy Korean Koguryo fails.

649 - 683

Gaozong / Kao Tsung

659 - 665

Transoxania (above and east of Persia) occupied.

668 - 676

Korea occupied. Koguryo falls.

683 - 689

Chung Tsung Son of Kao Tsung.





CHOU / ZHOU DYNASTY
AD 689 - 705

689 - 705

Empress Wu Zhao





WEI DYNASTY
AD 705 - 710

705 - 710

(Unknown)





TANG DYNASTY RESTORATION
AD 710 - 906

710

Chung Tsun Restored.

710 - 712

Jui Tsung

712 - 756

Hsuan Tsung / Xuanzong

751

Battle of Talas. Arabs defeat Chinese under Kao Hsien-chih, but advance no further into Central Asia.





GREATER YEN DYNASTY
AD 756 - 761

756 - 757

General An Lushan Usurper rebel.

757

(son)





TANG DYNASTY CONTINUED

756 - 762

Su Tsung

763

Loss of Tarim Basin to Tibetans.

762 - 780

Daizong / T'ai Tsung

780 - 805

Tê Tsung

805 - 806

Shun Tsung

806 - 821

Hsien Tsung

821 - 825

Mu Tsung

825 - 827

Ching Tsung

827 - 841

Wen Tsung

841 - 847

Wu Tsung

847 - 860

Hsüan Tsung

860 - 874

Yi Tsung

874 - 889

Hsi Tsung

889 - 904

Chao Tsung

904 - 906

Chao-hsüan Ti

907 - 1227

Tartar tribes encroach on China's borders, and found several of their own dynasties, ruling areas of China itself. This leads to much instability within Chinese China, and a period of civil war.

LIAO (KHITAN) TARTAR DYNASTY
AD 907-1125

1125

Displaced by the Kin/Chin .
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