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| 801 |
| | | Chia Tan produces an ambitious map for the emperor, some 30 by 33 feet in size, showing the entire T'ang empire | |
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| 845 |
| | | On the orders of the T'ang emperor, 4000 monasteries are destroyed in China and 250,000 monks and nuns forced into secular life | |
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| 868 |
| | | The world's first known printed book, a Diamond Sutra, is commissioned by a Buddhist monk in honour of his parents | |
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| 868 |
| | | The Diamand Sutra has as a frontispiece a printed woodcut depicting an enthroned Buddha | |
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| c. 900 |
| | | Playing cards are in use in T'ang dynasty China. | |
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| 903 |
| | | The leader of a peasant uprising captures and kills the Chinese emperor, bringing to an end the T'ang dynasty | |
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| c. 910 |
| | | Paper money is developed in China, becoming later one of the aspects of Chinese life which most impresses Marco Polo | |
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| c. 950 |
| | | A Chinese engineer, Chiao Wei-yo, is credited with devising the principle of the two-level pound lock for canals | |
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| 960 |
| | | A warlord, Zhao Kuangyin, establishes a new Chinese dynasty - the Song | |
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| 986 |
| | | The Khitan, a tribe from eastern Mongolia, fortify Beijing and make it their capital city | |
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