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Years · 8th century

744

Year of the monkey biçin yıl

5 entries in Eastern steppe and Western steppe.

Map of Asia in 744: the Uyghur Khaganate on the Orkhon, the Basmïl and Karluks in the Altai, the Türgesh breaking up, Tang China and Tibet — 744: The Basmïl kill Ozmish Khan, and the Uyghurs and Karluks kill the Basmïl khan. Kutlug Bilge Kül becomes the first khan of the Uyghurs. Modern map; the zone of the Basmïl and Karluks is drawn, not recorded.

Who ruled

Second Göktürk Khaganate Ozmish Khan 741–744
Uyghur Khaganate Kutlug Bilge Kül Khan 744–747

And beyond the steppe

China Tang Xuanzong 712–756
Iran Umayyad Marwan II 744–750
Korea Silla Gyeongdeok 742–765
Byzantium Isaurian Constantine V 741–775

Eastern steppe

Environment · Central Mongolia turns drier, by the lake record, and stays so to 1300; the droughts of the Medieval Climate Anomaly (700–1300)

Climate and the steppe empires · Orkhon valley
The Basmïl kill Ozmish Khan and send his head to Chang'an; his brother Baimei is set up

Ozmish Khan · Second Göktürk Khaganate · Basmïl
The Uyghurs and Karluk kill the Basmïl khan and raise the Uyghur Guli Peiluo as Kutluk Bilge Kül Khan

Basmïl · Uyghur Khaganate · Karluk · Second Göktürk Khaganate
The Uyghurs take the Orkhon from the last Göktürk khan; the Uyghur Khaganate begins

Uyghur Khaganate · Second Göktürk Khaganate · Tiele

Western steppe

Kül Čur of the Türgesh, who had recognised Tang overlordship in 740, perishes; the Ten Arrows begin to fade

Türgesh · On Oq