648

648 — Korea: Silla establishes alliance with Tang / China: The Book of Jin was compiled

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KoreaThree Kingdoms of Korea 57 BC–660	ChinaTang dynasty 618–907	JapanAsuka period 538–710	United States
Silla establishes alliance with Tang. 신라와 당나라가 나당동맹을 체결KO 647신라 진덕여왕 즉위	The Book of Jin was compiled. Tang campaign against Kucha: Tang general Ashina She'er conquers Kucha (Qiuci) Emperor Taizong of Tang launches one more campaign against Goguryeo unsuccessfully Songtsen Gampo of the Tibetan Empire attacks Arjuna, usurper of Harsha of Mithila, for accosting the Tang ambassador Wang Xuance Tang campaigns against Karasahr: Tang forces captured the king of Karasahr. Khitans submit to Tang as vassals 646Bianji compiled the Great Tang Records on the Western Regions. 646Emperor Taizong's campaign against Xueyantuo 647The Protectorate General to Pacify the North was established. 647Li Shiji leads another campaign against Goguryeo, but does not succeed 649The campaign against Goguryeo is called off 649July — Emperor Taizong of Tang succumbs to illness, possibly from the pills he took from his alchemists, and dies, his son Li Zhi succeeds him and becomes Emperor Gaozong of Tang 649January — Tang campaign against Kucha: Kucha surrendered to Tang forces. 649July — Taizong died. 649The four arts were first written of as skills required of a Chinese scholar-official. 649July — Taizong's son Emperor Gaozong of Tang became emperor of the Tang dynasty. 650Earliest known extant piece of printed text appears in Chang'an: a fragment of a Buddhist dhāraṇī scroll written in Sanskrit, known as the Great spell of unsullied pure light (Wugou jingguang da tuoluoni jing 無垢淨光大陀羅尼經)	No events recorded for this year 646January — The Hakuhō period starts with the Taika Reform. 646改新の詔	covered from 1607

KoreaThree Kingdoms of Korea 57 BC–660

ChinaTang dynasty 618–907

JapanAsuka period 538–710

United States

Silla establishes alliance with Tang.
신라와 당나라가 나당동맹을 체결KO

647신라 진덕여왕 즉위

The Book of Jin was compiled.
Tang campaign against Kucha: Tang general Ashina She'er conquers Kucha (Qiuci)
Emperor Taizong of Tang launches one more campaign against Goguryeo unsuccessfully
Songtsen Gampo of the Tibetan Empire attacks Arjuna, usurper of Harsha of Mithila, for accosting the Tang ambassador Wang Xuance
Tang campaigns against Karasahr: Tang forces captured the king of Karasahr.
Khitans submit to Tang as vassals

646Bianji compiled the Great Tang Records on the Western Regions.
646Emperor Taizong's campaign against Xueyantuo
647The Protectorate General to Pacify the North was established.
647Li Shiji leads another campaign against Goguryeo, but does not succeed
649The campaign against Goguryeo is called off
649July — Emperor Taizong of Tang succumbs to illness, possibly from the pills he took from his alchemists, and dies, his son Li Zhi succeeds him and becomes Emperor Gaozong of Tang
649January — Tang campaign against Kucha: Kucha surrendered to Tang forces.
649July — Taizong died.
649The four arts were first written of as skills required of a Chinese scholar-official.
649July — Taizong's son Emperor Gaozong of Tang became emperor of the Tang dynasty.
650Earliest known extant piece of printed text appears in Chang'an: a fragment of a Buddhist dhāraṇī scroll written in Sanskrit, known as the Great spell of unsullied pure light (Wugou jingguang da tuoluoni jing 無垢淨光大陀羅尼經)

No events recorded for this year

646January — The Hakuhō period starts with the Taika Reform.
646改新の詔

covered from 1607