660

660 — Korea: Battle of Hwangsanbeol / China: Emperor Gaozong of Tang begins suffering from severe headaches as well as loss of vision and yields decision-making power to Wu Zetian / Japan: Japanese, under command of Abe no Hirafu, massacre the Mishihase people in Hokkaido. The Japanese do not return to Hokkaido until over 700 years later

9 events. The text is the source chronology verbatim; the terms are in Sources & licenses. The grey lines above and below are the surrounding 2 years.

KoreaChinaTang dynasty 618–907JapanAsuka period 538–710United States
  • Battle of Hwangsanbeol
  • 백제가 멸망KO
  • Baekje falls to the Silla-Tang forces.
  • 661신라 문무왕 즉위
  • 662고구려와 당나라 사이에서 사수대첩이 일어남
  • 662As a result of the fall of Baekje, Tamna enters into a tributary relationship with Silla.
  • Emperor Gaozong of Tang begins suffering from severe headaches as well as loss of vision and yields decision-making power to Wu Zetian
  • Su Dingfang defeats Baekje
  • Tibetan Empire and their Turkic allies attack Shule
  • Tang attacks the Khitans and captures their leader Abugu, sending him back to Luoyang
  • 658Luoyang becomes the Eastern Capital
  • 658Conquest of the Western Turks
  • 659The History of the Southern Dynasties and the History of the Northern Dynasties were completed.
  • 659Evidence of a dental amalgam appears in the medical text Newly Revised Herbal Foundation (《新修本草》, Xīnxiū Běncǎo) written by Su Gong (苏恭), manufactured from tin and silver.
  • 661Peroz III of the Sasanian Empire requests military aid from Tang against the Arab invasion of Persia
  • 661Su Dingfang lays siege to Pyongyang
  • 662Tang troops lift siege of Pyongyang due to lack of food supplies
  • 662Liu Rengui inflicts a fatal blow on Baekje
  • 662The Daming Palace is rebuilt
  • Japanese, under command of Abe no Hirafu, massacre the Mishihase people in Hokkaido. The Japanese do not return to Hokkaido until over 700 years later.
  • 百済が唐・新羅に滅ぼされ、百済人が日本に渡来。JA
  • 662Japanese enter the Baekje–Tang War.

covered from 1607