Who ruled
- Uyghur Khaganate Bögü Khan 759–779 · Tun Bagha Tarkan 779–789
And beyond the steppe
- China Tang Daizong 762–779 · Dezong 779–805
- Iran Abbasid al-Mahdi 775–785
- Korea Silla Hyegong 765–780
- Byzantium Isaurian Leo IV 775–780
Eastern steppe
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Dun Mohe kills the khan Mouyu, his kin and the Sogdians who urged an invasion of China, two thousand in all, and takes the throne
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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)
