749

749 — China: Longyou defense command under Geshu Han attacks Tibetan Empire and retakes the Stone City but suffers heavy casualties / Japan: End of first smallpox epidemic

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KoreaNorthern and Southern States period 698–918ChinaTang dynasty 618–907JapanNara period 710–794United States
  • No events recorded for this year
  • 751Silla, at its cultural peak, constructs Seokguram and Bulguksa.
  • 751신라 불국사와 석굴암 건립
  • Longyou defense command under Geshu Han attacks Tibetan Empire and retakes the Stone City but suffers heavy casualties
  • The fubing system is all but abolished
  • 747Gao Xianzhi marches across the Pamirs with 10,000 men and conquers Little Balur (Gilgit), a client state of the Tibetan Empire
  • 748Tang constructs a fortress on an island on the Qinghai Lake, pacifying the northern Qinghai region
  • 748Tang recaptures Suyab and destroys it
  • 750Chinese cultural dominance in Liaoning disappears and is replaced by Khitan culture
  • 750Tang defeats the Turgesh-Chach and executes the king of Chach
  • 751Battle of Talas
  • 751Xianyu Zhongtong attacks Nanzhao with an army of 80,000 but is utterly defeated, losing three quarters of his original force
  • End of first smallpox epidemic.
  • 751The Kaifūsō poetry anthology is completed.

covered from 1607