{"slug": "emperor-taizong-of-tang", "label": "Emperor Taizong of Tang", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Taizong_of_Tang", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9701", "qid": "Q9701", "description": "Chinese emperor of the Tang Dynasty (598-649) (r. 626-649)", "entries": 22, "years": 19, "span": [598, 682], "span_label": ["598 CE", "682 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 9}, {"title": "Births", "count": 2}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 2}, {"title": "Exploration & Expansion", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Economy & Finance", "count": 1}, {"title": "Crime & Justice", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 1}, {"title": "Climate & Environment", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "tang-dynasty", "label": "Tang dynasty", "shared": 13}, {"slug": "emperor-gaozu-of-tang", "label": "Emperor Gaozu of Tang", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "chang-an", "label": "Chang'an", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "sui-dynasty", "label": "Sui dynasty", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "gokturks", "label": "Göktürks", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "central-asia", "label": "Central Asia", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "western-turkic-khaganate", "label": "Western Turkic Khaganate", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "tarim-basin", "label": "Tarim Basin", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "emperor-gaozong-of-tang", "label": "Emperor Gaozong of Tang", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "goguryeo", "label": "Goguryeo", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "diplomatic-mission", "label": "Diplomatic mission", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 598, "year_label": "598 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "January 28", "text": "January 28 – Taizong, emperor of the Tang dynasty (d. 649)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364751875#Births", "title": "598", "revid": 1364751875, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 599, "year_label": "599 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "January 23", "text": "January 23 – Tai Zong, emperor of the Tang dynasty (d. 649)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364752063#Births", "title": "599", "revid": 1364752063, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 621, "year_label": "621 CE", "section": "Economy & Finance", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Gaozu delegates control of his military and civil administration in the east to his second son, Li Shimin. He concentrates on reforming coinage (→ Kaiyuan Tongbao) and taxation.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364755711#Asia", "title": "621", "revid": 1364755711, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 624, "year_label": "624 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 12", "text": "August 12 – The Army of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate, led by Illig Qaghan, clashes with the army of Tang dynasty China, led by Taizong, Prince of Qin and son of Emperor Gaozu, with fighting taking place west of Binzhou in what is now the Shandong province.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1343884392#July–December", "title": "624", "revid": 1343884392, "section": "Events › By date › July–December"}}, {"year": 626, "year_label": "626 CE", "section": "Crime & Justice", "date": "July 2", "text": "July 2 – Li Shimin travels to the Tang capital Chang'an to bid farewell to his younger brother Li Yuanji, who has been given command of a Chinese expedition against the Eastern Turkic Khaganate. Hearing of a plot to murder him, he and a few supporters seize the northern entrance to the emperor's palace. Li Shimin ambushes and eliminates his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng, in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352126742#Asia", "title": "626", "revid": 1352126742, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 626, "year_label": "626 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "September 4", "text": "September 4 – Emperor Gao Zu abdicates in favor of his son Li Shimin after an 8-year reign. He passes the throne to him (as Emperor Tai Zong).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1352126742#Asia", "title": "626", "revid": 1352126742, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 629, "year_label": "629 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Winter – Emperor Taizong of the Tang dynasty launches a campaign against the Eastern Turkic Khaganate (Central Asia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340803532#Asia", "title": "629", "revid": 1340803532, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 631, "year_label": "631 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Tai Zong sends envoys to the Xueyantuo, vassals of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate, bearing gold and silk in order to obtain the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners, who were captured during the transition from the Sui to the Tang dynasty from the northern frontier. The embassy succeeds in freeing 80,000 men and women, who are safely returned to China.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364749921#Asia", "title": "631", "revid": 1364749921, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 636, "year_label": "636 CE", "section": "Technology & Infrastructure", "date": null, "text": "The Xumi Pagoda of Zhengding (China) is built, during the reign of Emperor Taizong of Tang.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267068315#Asia", "title": "636", "revid": 1267068315, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 639, "year_label": "639 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Xueyantuo assaults the Chinese-conquered vassal of Eastern Tujue. Although simultaneously fighting in Korea against Goguryeo, Emperor Tai Zong commissions his famous general Li Shiji to fend off attacks in the campaign against Xueyantuo.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364754023#Asia", "title": "639", "revid": 1364754023, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 640, "year_label": "640 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Taizong of Tang begins the military campaigns against the Western Regions states in the Tarim Basin. General Hou Junji captures the kingdom of Gaochang, to solidify Tang rule in Central Asia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364750340#Asia", "title": "640", "revid": 1364750340, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 641, "year_label": "641 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Taizong of the Tang dynasty (China) instigates a civil war in the Western Turkic Khaganate, by supporting Isbara Yabghu Qaghan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364764166#Asia", "title": "641", "revid": 1364764166, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 642, "year_label": "642 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Taizong of the Tang dynasty issues a decree throughout China, that increases the punishment for men who deliberately inflict injuries upon themselves (most commonly breaking their own legs) in order to avoid military conscription. This decree is an effort to eradicate this practice that has grown as a trend since the time of the rebellion against the Sui dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367634849#Asia", "title": "642", "revid": 1367634849, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 643, "year_label": "643 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": null, "text": "Chinese prefectural government officials travel to the capital of Chang'an, to give the annual report of the affairs in their districts. Emperor Taizong discovers that many have no proper quarters to rest in, and are renting rooms with merchants. Therefore, Taizong orders the government agencies in charge of municipal construction to build every visiting official his own private mansion in the capital.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804491#Asia", "title": "643", "revid": 1340804491, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 644, "year_label": "644 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Taizong of the Tang dynasty sends a Chinese expeditionary force, to invade and annex the Tarim Basin kingdom of Karasahr in Xinjiang, a vassal of the Western Turkic Khaganate. The oasis state is conquered, and Western Turks sent to assist Karasahr are defeated by the Tang forces.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367635050#Asia", "title": "644", "revid": 1367635050, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 645, "year_label": "645 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Xuanzang, Chinese Buddhist monk, returns to China after a 16-year pilgrimage to India. He is greeted with much honor by Emperor Taizong.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347973672#Religion", "title": "645", "revid": 1347973672, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 645, "year_label": "645 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "May 1", "text": "May 1 – First conflict of the Goguryeo–Tang War: A Chinese expeditionary army under Emperor Taizong of Tang crosses the Liao River into Goguryeo (one of the Three kingdoms of Korea).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347973672#China", "title": "645", "revid": 1347973672, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 646, "year_label": "646 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Emperor Taizong of the Tang dynasty destroys the Xueyantuo state, during the campaign against the Xueyantuo (Central Asia).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804476#China", "title": "646", "revid": 1340804476, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 647, "year_label": "647 CE", "section": "Exploration & Expansion", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Taizong of the Tang dynasty sends a Chinese mission to study Indian techniques of sugar manufacturing, at Bihar in the Ganges Valley.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1340804471#Asia", "title": "647", "revid": 1340804471, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 649, "year_label": "649 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 10", "text": "July 10 – Taizong, Chinese Tang dynasty emperor (b. 598)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365938693#Deaths", "title": "649", "revid": 1365938693, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 649, "year_label": "649 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 10", "text": "July 10 – Emperor Taizong dies after a 23-year reign, in which he has restored the civil administration in China. He is succeeded by his son Gaozong, age 20, who becomes ruler of the Tang dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1365938693#China", "title": "649", "revid": 1365938693, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 682, "year_label": "682 CE", "section": "Climate & Environment", "date": null, "text": "Due to a culmination of major droughts, floods, locust plagues and epidemics, a widespread famine breaks out in the dual Chinese capital cities of Chang'an (primary capital) and Luoyang (secondary capital). The scarcity of food drives the price of grain to unprecedented heights, ending a once prosperous era under emperors Taizong and Gaozong on a sad note.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347973674#Asia", "title": "682", "revid": 1347973674, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}]}