Who ruled
- Second Göktürk Khaganate Kapgan Khan 691–716 · Inel Khan 699–716 · Bilge Khan 716–734
And beyond the steppe
- China Tang Xuanzong 712–756
- Iran Umayyad Sulayman 715–717
- Korea Silla Seongdeok 702–737
- Byzantium Theodosios III 715–717
Eastern steppe
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Environment · Central Mongolia turns drier, by the lake record, and stays so to 1300; the droughts of the Medieval Climate Anomaly (700–1300)
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Kapgan beats the Bayirku on the Tola, rides home carelessly and is beheaded in a willow wood by a Bayirku straggler; his head is carried to Chang'an
Kapgan Khan · Bayirku · Toquz Oghuz · Second Göktürk Khaganate · The coup of 716
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Five battles against the Nine Oguz in one year, at Togu, Lake Antargu, the head of the Čuš and Ezginti Kadız; afterwards the Oguz leave for China and are brought back
Toquz Oghuz · Kül Tegin · Bilge Khan · Bayirku · Second Göktürk Khaganate · Kül Tegin inscription
The inscription counts the battles without giving a year; they belong to the first years of Bilge Khan's reign.
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Kül Tegin kills the Lesser Khan, Kapgan's brothers and his court, and sets his elder brother on the throne as Bilge Khan; Tonyukuk alone is spared and recalled as chief counsellor
Kül Tegin · Bilge Khan · Inel Khan · Tonyukuk · Second Göktürk Khaganate · The coup of 716
