903

903 — China: Zhu Wen takes Emperor Zhaozong of Tang to Chang'an, where Zhu and Cui Yin carry out wholesale slaughter of the eunuchs

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  • No events recorded for this year
  • 901태봉의 시조 궁예가 송악에서 건국
  • 904후고구려가 마진으로 개명
  • Zhu Wen takes Emperor Zhaozong of Tang to Chang'an, where Zhu and Cui Yin carry out wholesale slaughter of the eunuchs
  • Wang Jian is created Prince of Shu
  • 901Emperor Zhaozong of Tang is restored and later forced by eunuchs to leave Chang'an for Fengxiang (in Shaanxi)
  • 902Zhu Wen names Yang Xingmi Prince of Wu and lays siege to Fengxiang
  • 902Lu Guangchou and Tan Quanbo expand and capture Shao prefecture in Hunan (placed under Lu Yanchang) and Chao prefecture in Guangdong (placed under Lu Guangmu)
  • 902大迭烈府夷离堇(军事首领)领兵40万伐河东代北,下九郡。
  • 904朱全忠殺宰相崔胤,逼迫唐昭宗遷都洛陽。
  • 904Zhu Wen kills Cui Yin and forces Emperor Zhaozong of Tang to leave Chang'an for Luoyang, where Zhaozong is killed
  • 904September — Zhu Wen appointed Zhaozong's young son Emperor Ai of Tang emperor of the Tang dynasty.
  • 904First possible usage of gunpowder weapons (possibly fire arrows) by Wu (Ten Kingdoms) during the siege of Yuzhang
  • 904September — Zhaozong was killed on the orders of the warlord Zhu Wen, then in control of the Tang capital Chang'an.
  • No events recorded for this year
  • 901Nihon Sandai Jitsuroku (6th and last of historical chronicles Rikkokushi) was completed.
  • 901昌泰の変(菅原道真、大宰権帥に左遷される。)
  • 905『古今和歌集』の成立。

covered from 1607