Who ruled
- Uyghur Khaganate Bögü Khan 759–779
And beyond the steppe
- China Tang 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
Tibet
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A Tibetan army enters Chang'an and holds it for a fortnight; the Tang have no armies left in the west
