804
804 — China: Kukai visits China
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| KoreaNorthern and Southern States period 698–918 | ChinaTang dynasty 618–907 | JapanHeian period 794–1185 | United States |
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- No events recorded for this year
| - Kukai visits China
- Merchants start using paper notes known as flying cash as a credit medium
- 803Champa seizes southern Annan
- 803Tang pushes the western border forward to Pingliang
- 803The Leshan Giant Buddha is completed
- 805Wang Shuwen makes a failed attempt to take back military power from the eunuchs
- 805February — Emperor Dezong of Tang dies; his son Li Song succeeds him and becomes Emperor Shunzong of Tang, who abdicates in favor of his son Li Chun, who becomes Emperor Xianzong of Tang
- 805February — Dezong's son Emperor Shunzong of Tang became emperor of the Tang dynasty.
- 805February — Dezong died.
- 805August — Shunzong abdicated in favor of his son Emperor Xianzong of Tang.
- 806Kukai returns to Japan
- 806Emperor Xianzong of Tang pacifies military commanders in Jiannan and the lower Yangzi region
- 806Xianzong launched the first of a series of military campaigns against the provinces.
- 806唐憲宗即位，是為元和中興。
| - No events recorded for this year
- 802After the defeat of the Emishi Isawa confederation and execution of Aterui in the final stages of Thirty-Eight Years War [ja], the Japanese control the entire Honshu island.
- 805徳政相論が行われる。
- 806Emperor Heizei, accession
- 806The Japanese kana scripts (invention popularly attributed to Kūkai) have evolved as distinct from Chinese characters.
| covered from 1607 |