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The Old Book of Tang

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January 28:

• Party at Huaqing Palace.

February 5:

• Emperor Xuanzong grants lavish favours on An Lushan, giving him the final, sweeping powers he needs for his rebellion.

March 29:

• An Lushan returns to Fanyang.

December 18:

• An Lushan rebels at Fanyang with the slogan "Slay Guozhong!". He first attacks Boling Commandery and kills the mayor of Taiyuan Yang Guanghui.

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January 7:

• An Lushan crosses the Yellow River at Lingchang Commandery (靈昌郡).

January 12:

• Chenliu falls to An Lushan. Zhang Jieran is killed.

January 15:

• Xingyang falls to An Lushan. Grand Protector Cui Wubi (崔無詖) is killed.

January 17:

• Feng Changqing engages An Lushan at the Battle of Si River but is defeated.

January 18:

• Fall of Luoyang. An Lushan kills vice regent Li Cheng (李憕). At this point, Gao Xianzhi retreats with his forces to Tong Pass.
• Sometime between this date and January 22, Grand Protector Yan Gaoqing of Changshan kills Lushan's generals Li Qincou, He Qiannian, and Gao Miao with the help of the chief secretaries Yuan Lüqian (袁履謙) and Jia Shen (賈深).

January 27:

• Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing are executed at Tong Pass. Geshu Han is appointed Marshal of the Crown Prince's Vanguard Cavalry (太子先鋒兵馬元帥) and dispatched to take over the defence of Tong Pass.

January 28:

• Alternative date for Yan Gaoqing killing Li Qincou, He Qiannian, and Gao Miao according to his biographical entry. It is recorded that Yuan Lüqian (袁履謙), Feng Qian (馮虔), Li Qimo (李棲默), and Zhai Wande (翟萬德) invited Li Qincou for a feast and assassinated him after they got him drunk. They then lured Gao Miao to Pucheng (蒲城), and Cui Anshi (崔安石) kills him in an ambush the next morning. They repeat the same tactic with He Qiannian, who falls into another ambush conducted by Feng Qian and Zhai Wande. Note that this was Month 12, Day 22 in the Chinese calendar, which may have given rise to the mistake in Dynasty that this event occurred on December 22, at the winter solstice.

February 5:

• An Lushan proclaims himself Emperor of the Yan.

February 12:

• The rebel general Cai Xide (蔡希德), a subordinate of Shi Siming, captures Changshan and sacks the city. He captures Yan Gaoqing and the senior secretary Yuan Lüqian.

March 7:

• Tang generals Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi advance on Shi Siming's forces and deal him a great defeat.

July 9:

• Tang general Geshu Han suffers a major defeat in battle against Yan general Cui Qianyou (崔乾祐) near Tong Pass.
• Yan general Shi Siming suffers a major defeat in battle against Tang generals Li Guangbi and Guo Ziyi near Changshan.

July 10:

• Geshu Han returns to Tong Pass. It falls to Yan forces alongside several nearby commanderies.

July 13:

• Mass panic in Chang'an. People flee the capital in droves.

July 14:

• At dawn, Emperor Xuanzong leaves Chang'an with a royal entourage of many imperial kin and the highest officials, among them Yang Guozhong and Gao Lishi.
• Around 5:00 am to 7:00 am, they arrive hungry at Wangxian Palace to find it abandoned. Eventually, peasants along the way help feed them.

July 15:

• The entourage arrives at Mawei Station. General Chen Xuanli of the Army of Dragon Warriors instigates a coup d'état against Yang Guozhong blaming him for their catastrophes, citing as well the enemy's slogan "Slay Guozhong!" Guozhong is killed by the army, and under pressure, Emperor Xuanzong orders Gao Lishi to hang his favourite concubine Yang Guifei as well.

July 16:

• The common people urge the Emperor Xuanzong to leave behind Crown Prince Li Heng to lead a counter-attack against An Lushan.

August 12:

• At Lingwu, the imperial army proclaims Li Heng the new Tang emperor (later posthumously named Suzong).

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January 30:

• An Lushan is assassinated by his son An Qingxu.

The New Book of Tang

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November 12:

• An Lushan meets Emperor Xuanzong at Huaqing Palace.

Between December 8 and December 24:

• An Lushan rebels in Fanyang.

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January 8:

• An Lushan captures Lingchang Commandery.

January 12:

• An Lushan captures Chenliu. He executes Zhang Jieran.

January 14:

• An Lushan captures Xingyang.

January 18:

• Fall of Luoyang

January 20:

• Grand Protector Yan Gaoqing kills He Qiannian and a number of other Yeluohe officers.

January 24:

• Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing are wrongfully executed while defending Tong Pass. Geshu Han takes command.

February 12:

• Fall of Changshan. Yao Gaoqing is captured.

February 15:

• An Qingxu defeats Geshu Han in an engagement at Tong Pass.

July 10:

• Geshu Han is betrayed by an officer, and Tong Pass falls to An Lushan.

July 15:

• Emperor Xuanzong, while fleeing Chang'an, arrives at Wangxian Palace.

July 16:

• Mawei Station mutiny

July 18:

• Fall of Chang'an

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February 5:

• Emperor Xuanzong promotes An Lushan as Left Deputy to the Secretary of State Affairs (尚書左僕射).

February 20:

• Emperor Xuanzong grants An Lushan's wish to be made Commissary Herdsman of the Imperial Stables (廄群牧使), giving him remote control over the Tang's best horses.

March 21:

• Emperor Xuanzong grants An Lushan's wish to promote more than 500 of his officers to the rank general and bestow more than 2000 with the title of guard captain (中郎將).

March 29:

• An Lushan returns to Fanyang.

December 16:

• An Lushan rebels at Fanyang. This dates corresponds to Month 11, Day 9 in the Chinese calendar, which may have given rise to the error in Dynasty and other sources that An Lushan's rebellion began on November 9. Note that The Old Book of Tang dates this event to December 18 instead.

December 17:

• Taiyuan's vice regent Yang Guanghui marches east to stop An Lushan.

December 22:

• Emperor Xuanzong receives confirmation that An Lushan has rebelled.

December 26:

• An Lushan attacks Boling Commandery. Yang Guanghui is captured by He Qiannian.
• Between December 26 and January 8, An Lushan threatens Changshan. Yan Gaoqing is powerless to oppose him and feigns submission. An Lushan gifts him an imperial cloak. Gaoqing later consults his chief secretary Yuan Lüqian (袁履謙), who encourages him to secretly form a counter-rebellion force.

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January 8:

• An Lushan crosses the Yellow River.

January 11:

• An Lushan receives news that his eldest son An Qingzong has been executed in Chang'an. In anger and grief, he executes Zhang Jieran, who had been overseeing the defence at Chenliu. He subsequently orders that the prisoners-of-war in Chenliu be massacred.

January 14:

• Xingyang falls to An Lushan.

January 18:

• Fall of Luoyang.

January 27:

• Yan Gaoqing invites Lushan's general Li Qincou to a feast at dusk. Yuan Lüqian, Feng Qian (馮虔), and co. successfully get Qincou and his men drunk and assassinate them.

January 28:

• Yan Gaoqing lures Gao Miao to the Changshan capital, and Feng Qian captures him. While approaching from the south, He Qiannian is ambushed by Cui Anshi (崔安石) and Zhai Wande (翟萬德) and captures him as well.

February 5:

• An Lushan proclaims himself Emperor of the Great Yan.

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November 9:

• An Lushan rebels at Fanyang and creates the Yeluohe.

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October:

• Emperor Xuanzong invites An Lushan to Huaqing Palace.

November 9:

• An Lushan proclaims his rebellion from Fanyang and founds the Yeluohe.

November 15:

• News of An Lushan's Rebellion reaches Chang'an.

November 19:

• An Lushan ravages Hebei with his army. He destroys Julu, captures Taiyuan and its vice regent Yang Guanghui, whom he executes before the gates of Changshan to intimidate its grand protector Yan Gaoqing. To keep surveillance over Changshan, he has Gao Miao and Li Qincou occupy Tumen Pass.
• Yan Gaoqing sends his son Yan Jiming and his caretaker Chen Wu on a mission to rally the support of Hebei's grand protectors for a counter-rebellion

November 21:

• Emperor Xuanzong creates the 50,000-strong Army of Heavenly Warriors and appoints Gao Xianzhi as commander to fight the An Lushan Rebellion.

December 2:

• An Lushan crosses the Yellow River.
• Li E and Yan Jiming goes to Julu and lights its beacon, inspiring the first wave of hope across Hebei.

December 5:

• Chenliu falls to An Lushan.

December 8:

• Xingyang falls to An Lushan.

December 12:

• Luoyang falls to An Lushan.

December 13:

• The Army of Heavenly Warriors is routed at Shanzhou and retreats in a panic to Tong Pass. Yeluohe forces are momentarily beaten back at Tong Pass. Gao Xianzhi refuses army supervisor Bian Lingcheng's demands for an immediate counter-attack.

December 21:

• Having received news that He Qiannian is on his way to reinforce Tumen Pass, Yan Gaoqing briefs Li E, Yan Jiming, and He Hong'er on the plan that very night to assassinate Gao Miao, Li Qincou, and He Qiannian to take Tumen Pass. They send a message to Gao Xianzhi informing him of their plan to link loyalists in Hebei with Tang forces at Tong Pass. Xianzhi dispatches Wang Chengye to lead the troops that will rendezvous with Li E at Taiyuan, unaware that Chengye is in league with the Golden Turtles.

December 22:

• Li E assassinates Gao Miao and Li Qincou at Tumen Pass, and the Changshan militia ambushes and kills He Qiannian.

December 28:

• Bian Lingcheng returns to Tong Pass and executes Gao Xianzhi and Feng Changqing as part of a Golden Turtles scheme to ensure only that no one but them will have the prestige of defeating An Lushan.
• By this point, Wang Chengye had captured Li E in Taiyuan and had imprisoned him inside the Mengshan Giant Buddha.

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January:

• An Lushan declares himself Emperor of the Yan in Luoyang.
• Shi Siming attacks Changshan.

January 8:

• Without reinforcements from Tong Pass, Changshan's defences collapse. Both Yan Gaoqing and Yan Jiming are captured.