Who ruled
- Uyghur Khaganate Bögü Khan 759–779
And beyond the steppe
- China Tang Suzong 756–762 · Daizong 762–779
- Iran Abbasid al-Mansur 754–775
- Korea Silla 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)
China
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Culture · The Uyghur khan is converted to Manichaeism at Luoyang, by the Karabalghasun inscription
Manichaeism · Uyghur Khaganate · Sogdians
762 to 763; the inscription's khan is disputed
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Before the tent of the Uyghur khan Bögü at Shanzhou the officers of the Tang prince of Yong refuse the dance of homage for him; two of them die of their beating
The Uyghur Demand for the Prince's Dance (762) · Bögü Khan · Uyghur Khaganate · Tang
Arabia and the caliphate
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Culture · Baghdad is founded as the seat of the caliphate
