649
649 — China: The campaign against Goguryeo is called off
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| KoreaThree Kingdoms of Korea 57 BC–660 | ChinaTang dynasty 618–907 | JapanAsuka period 538–710 | United States |
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- 647신라 진덕여왕 즉위
- 648Silla establishes alliance with Tang.
- 648신라와 당나라가 나당동맹을 체결
| - The campaign against Goguryeo is called off
- July — 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
- January — Tang campaign against Kucha: Kucha surrendered to Tang forces.
- July — Taizong died.
- The four arts were first written of as skills required of a Chinese scholar-official.
- July — Taizong's son Emperor Gaozong of Tang became emperor of the Tang dynasty.
- 647The Protectorate General to Pacify the North was established.
- 647Li Shiji leads another campaign against Goguryeo, but does not succeed
- 648The Book of Jin was compiled.
- 648Tang campaign against Kucha: Tang general Ashina She'er conquers Kucha (Qiuci)
- 648Emperor Taizong of Tang launches one more campaign against Goguryeo unsuccessfully
- 648Songtsen Gampo of the Tibetan Empire attacks Arjuna, usurper of Harsha of Mithila, for accosting the Tang ambassador Wang Xuance
- 648Tang campaigns against Karasahr: Tang forces captured the king of Karasahr.
- 648Khitans submit to Tang as vassals
- 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)
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| covered from 1607 |