703
What happened in Korea, China, Japan and the United States in 703, on one shared year axis.
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| KoreaNorthern and Southern States period 698–918 | ChinaTang dynasty 618–907 | JapanAsuka period 538–710 | United States |
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- 701Tridu Songtsen of the Tibetan Empire allies with Turks and attacks Liang, Song, and Tao prefectures
- 702Tibetan Empire attacks Mao Prefecture
- 702Qapaghan Qaghan of the Second Turkic Khaganate conducts raids against the Tang dynasty
- 702Military examinations are introduced to recruit new officers as a response to the breakdown of the fubing system.
- 704The Giant Wild Goose Pagoda was rebuilt.
- 705The earliest known printed text created specifically for reading, the Lotus Sutra, is dated to this year
- 705February — Wu Zetian was forced to abdicate the throne in favor of her son Emperor Zhongzong of Tang.
- 705February — Zhongzong became emperor of Tang.
- 705February — Zhang Jianzhi kills the Zhang brothers in a coup and restores the Tang with Emperor Zhongzong of Tang as emperor (Shenlong Coup [zh]); Wu Zetian dies from illness not long after
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| covered from 1607 |