An Lushan marches on Luoyang
755 · Event
Claiming secret orders to remove the chief minister, the frontier armies of the northeast turn south — 150,000 veterans against an interior that has not seen war in a century. Luoyang falls within a month and An Lushan proclaims his own dynasty; the golden age of Tang ends in the space of a winter.
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More from The An Lushan Rebellion
- An Lushan Rebellion (755)
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- An Lushan captures Chang'an (756)
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- Tang buys back its capitals (757)
- Death of An Lushan (757)
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- Suppression of the An Lushan Rebellion (763)
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