Who ruled
- Second Göktürk Khaganate Ozmish Khan 741–744
And beyond the steppe
- China Tang Xuanzong 712–756
- Iran Umayyad Hisham 724–743
- Korea Silla Hyoseong 737–742 · Gyeongdeok 742–765
- Byzantium Isaurian Constantine V 741–775
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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The Basmïl rise against Ozmish and defeat him; the whole country falls into chaos, and in the eighth month the remnant of the Ashina house, princesses and widows and a grandson of Kapgan, is received at Chang'an