{"slug": "emperor-zhaozong-of-tang", "label": "Emperor Zhaozong of Tang", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emperor_Zhaozong_of_Tang", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q9891", "qid": "Q9891", "description": "final emperor of the Tang dynasty of China (r. 888-904)", "entries": 10, "years": 9, "span": [867, 906], "span_label": ["867 CE", "906 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 5}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 1}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "tang-dynasty", "label": "Tang dynasty", "shared": 7}, {"slug": "china", "label": "China", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "chang-an", "label": "Chang'an", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 867, "year_label": "867 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Zhao Zong, emperor of the Tang Dynasty (d. 904)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366655299#Births", "title": "867", "revid": 1366655299, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 888, "year_label": "888 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "April 20", "text": "April 20 – Emperor Xi Zong (Li Xuan) dies of illness at Chang'an, after a 14-year reign. He is succeeded by his 21-year-old brother Zhao Zong, as ruler of the Tang Dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1347624107#China", "title": "AD 888", "revid": 1347624107, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 890, "year_label": "890 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "In March or April 890, the ambitious warlord Zhu Quanzhong (later called Zhu Wen) faced a mutiny at Suzhou and was unable to retake the city. He pressured Emperor Zhaozong of Tang China to launch a campaign against his primary rival, Li Keyong. By winter 890, Zhu strategically shifted his focus northward, giving up his claim to the Huainan Circuit after failing to take it.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373061013#Asia", "title": "890", "revid": 1373061013, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 896, "year_label": "896 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Zhao Zong appoints Li Keyong, a Shatuo military governor (jiedushi), as Prince of Jin. He becomes the first ruler of Jin (see 907) following the collapse of the Tang dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1346094345#China", "title": "896", "revid": 1346094345, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 900, "year_label": "900 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "December 1", "text": "December 1 – Emperor Zhao Zong is deposed and forced by a group of Tang eunuchs led by Liu Jishu to abdicate the throne to his son, Crown Prince Li Yu (until 901).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364042634#Asia", "title": "900", "revid": 1364042634, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 901, "year_label": "901 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 24", "text": "January 24 – Emperor Zhao Zong of the Tang Dynasty (after he is briefly deposed by general Liu Jishu) is restored to the Chinese throne. Liu, with four eunuch family members are killed.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1345013381#Asia", "title": "901", "revid": 1345013381, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 902, "year_label": "902 CE", "section": "Health & Medicine", "date": null, "text": "Spring – Emperor Zhao Zong appoints Yang Xingmi as the overall commander of the Eastern circuits in China. He receives the title of Prince Wuzhong of Wu.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130244#Asia", "title": "902", "revid": 1341130244, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}, {"year": 904, "year_label": "904 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "September 22", "text": "September 22 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong kills Emperor Zhao Zong, along with his family and many ministers, after seizing control of the imperial government. Zhu places Zhao Zong's 13-year-old son Ai (Li Zhou) on the imperial throne as a puppet ruler of the Tang dynasty.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130856#China", "title": "904", "revid": 1341130856, "section": "Events › By place › China"}}, {"year": 904, "year_label": "904 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "September 22", "text": "September 22 – Zhao Zong, emperor of the Tang dynasty (b. 867)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1341130856#Deaths", "title": "904", "revid": 1341130856, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 906, "year_label": "906 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "January 22", "text": "January 22 – The warlord Zhu Quanzhong secretly puts Empress Dowager He, the wife of the late Emperor Zhaozong and mother of the reigning Emperor Ai, to death (by strangulation) and has her defamed and posthumously demoted to commoner rank.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364979263#Asia", "title": "906", "revid": 1364979263, "section": "Events › By place › Asia"}}]}