The Tang census collapses
764 · Event
The first census after the war registers about 17 million people where 53 million stood ten years before. Most of the missing 36 million are displaced, untaxed or unrecorded rather than dead — but the true toll runs into the many millions, and the number stands as a monument to one of the deadliest wars before the twentieth century.
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More from The An Lushan Rebellion
- An Lushan Rebellion (755)
- An Lushan marches on Luoyang (755)
- The death of Yang Guifei at Mawei (756)
- An Lushan captures Chang'an (756)
- The terrible siege of Suiyang (757)
- Tang buys back its capitals (757)
- Death of An Lushan (757)
- Suppression of the An Lushan Rebellion (763)
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