757
757 — China: An Qingxu flees across the Yellow River to southern Hebei / Japan: The Yōrō Code completes the evolution of Ritsuryō law system
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| KoreaNorthern and Southern States period 698–918 | ChinaTang dynasty 618–907 | JapanNara period 710–794 | United States |
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- No events recorded for this year
| - An Qingxu flees across the Yellow River to southern Hebei
- Tang counterattack under Guo Ziyi and Uyghur allies evict the Yan from Chang'an and Luoyang
- Tibetan Empire conquers Shan Prefecture
- An Lushan is killed by his son An Qingxu
- Battle of Suiyang: Yan forces finally conquered Suiyang, in modern Suiyang District, after a siege that cost the lives of some sixty thousand Yan soldiers and thirty thousand Tang civilians were lost to starvation and cannibalism.
- 755Zhang Xuan died.
- 755An Lushan Rebellion: An Lushan rebels and declares himself emperor of Yan
- 755December — An Lushan Rebellion: The Tang jiedushi An Lushan declared himself emperor of Yan.
- 756安史叛軍入長安，唐玄宗出奔蜀地。至馬嵬驛，軍士嘩變，楊國忠、楊貴妃被殺。
- 756The Taoist Mao Kua reports in his Pinglongren (Recognition of the Recumbent Dragon) that by heating saltpeter, the yin of the air can be obtained, which combines with sulphur, carbon, and metals other than gold.
- 756Spring — Battle of Yongqiu: Yan forces retreated from their siege of a Tang fortress in Yongqiu, in modern Kaifeng.
- 756August — The Tang army declared Xuanzong's son Emperor Suzong of Tang emperor at Lingwu.
- 756September — Xuanzong recognized Suzong as emperor.
- 758Princess Ningguo, second daughter of Emperor Suzong of Tang, marries Bayanchur Khan of the Uyghur Khaganate
- 758Arab and Persian pirates looted and burned the Tang seaport of Guangzhou.
- 759Shi Siming occupies Luoyang
- 759Jianzhen founds the Tōshōdai-ji in Nara, Japan
- 759An Qingxu is killed by rebel Shi Siming
- 759Wang Wei died.
| - The Yōrō Code completes the evolution of Ritsuryō law system.
- Fujiwara no Nakamaro defeats an attempt by Tachibana no Naramaro to seize power.
- 橘奈良麻呂の乱JA
- 758Emperor Junnin, accession
- 759頃 『万葉集』の成立。
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