Region: China · Coordinates: 34.700, 112.600 · 286 events
| Year | Source | Account |
|---|---|---|
| 1045 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | King Wu viewed the area from the bend of the Luo River to the bend of the Yi River as the old site of Xia, built the Zhou residence at Luoyi, and departed. tradition |
| 1038 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | King Cheng, while at Feng, had Shao Gong once again manage Luoyi in accordance with King Wu's intention; the Duke of Zhou divined and placed the Nine Ding tripods there. |
| 770 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | King Ping ascended the throne and, to escape the Rong invaders, moved the capital east to Luoyi. |
| 606 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | In the first year of King Ding, King Zhuang of Chu attacked the Luhun Rong, remained at the Luo River and asked about the weight of the Nine Tripods; Wang Sunman's answer made him withdraw his army. tradition |
| 403 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | In the twenty-third year of King Weilie, the Nine Tripods shook, and he invested Han, Wei and Zhao as feudal lords. |
| 403 BC | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | King Weilie of Zhou first enfeoffed Wei Si, Zhao Ji and Han Qian, ministers of Jin, as feudal lords, recognizing the division of the three Jin states. |
| 307 BC | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | King Wu of Qin died after lifting a cauldron with Meng Shuo and breaking his leg bone; his half-brother Zhi, who had been a hostage in Yan, was brought back and enthroned as King Xiaoxiang. |
| 293 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | Bai Qi attacked Han and Wei at Yique, beheaded 240,000 men and captured Gongsun Xi. |
| 256 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | When Western Zhou rebelled against Qin and moved to join the alliance to go out through Yique, King Zhao of Qin sent General Jiu to attack; the Lord of Western Zhou went to Qin and offered thirty-six cities and thirty thousand people. |
| 255 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | When King Nan died, the people of Zhou fled east; Qin took the Nine Tripods and other treasures and moved the Lord of Western Zhou to Danhu. |
| 249 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | Seven years later, King Zhuangxiang of Qin destroyed Eastern Zhou; both Eastern and Western Zhou entered Qin, and the sacrifices of Zhou ceased. |
| 205 BC | Book of Han (Hanshu), Imperial Annals | At Luoyang, heeding the counsel of Dong Gong, the elder of Xincheng, the King of Han proclaimed mourning for Emperor Yi, wept for three days, and announced his campaign against Xiang Yu to the feudal lords. |
| 205 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | The King of Han crossed the Yellow River from Linjin, made Wei follow him, reached Luoyang, proclaimed the mourning for the Righteous Emperor, and appealed to the feudal lords to attack Chu. |
| 202 BC | Book of Han (Hanshu), Imperial Annals | The emperor made Luoyang his capital in the west and in the fifth month disbanded the soldiers and sent them home. |
| 202 BC | Records of the Grand Historian (Shiji), Annals | Gaozu intended to make Luoyang his capital, but on the advice of Liu Jing and Zhang Liang he rode off that very day and made Guanzhong his capital. |
| AD 25 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Zhu Wei, besieged in Luoyang, opened the city and surrendered. |
| AD 25 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Guangwu's carriage entered Luoyang, stayed in the Southern Palace, and settled it as the capital. |
| AD 25 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | In the tenth month, on the day guichou, Emperor Guangwu entered Luoyang, stayed in the Southern Palace, and fixed it as the capital. |
| AD 26 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | At Luoyang an ancestral temple was built, altars of the soil and grain were set up, and an altar was erected in the southern suburbs. |
| AD 57 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Guangwu died in the front hall of the Southern Palace in Luoyang (aged 62). |
| AD 57 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | On the second month, day wuxu, Emperor Guangwu died in the Southern Palace hall at the age of sixty-two. Every morning he had not rested from court audiences and scripture lectures, so the crown prince worried about his health. |
| AD 79 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | At the White Tiger Hall, many scholars gathered to debate the differences among the Five Classics and compiled the Baihu Yizou (White Tiger Discussions). |
| AD 88 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Emperor Zhang died in the Zhangde Hall (aged 33). |
| AD 92 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | When Dou Xian plotted rebellion, Emperor He went to the Northern Palace, arrested his followers, and sent Dou Xian and his brother to their fiefs, where they took their own lives. |
| AD 105 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Emperor He died in the Zhangde Hall, and his heir Long (Emperor Shang) ascended the throne. |
| AD 106 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | After Emperor Shang died, Empress Dowager Deng welcomed Emperor An (aged 13) and enthroned him. |
| AD 109 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | A great famine struck the capital, and people ate one another. |
| AD 121 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Empress Dowager Deng died. |
| AD 125 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Nineteen eunuchs led by Sun Cheng beheaded Jiang Jing, Liu An and Chen Da, and welcomed the Prince of Jiyin (Emperor Shun) under the bell west of the Deyang Hall to enthrone him. |
| AD 125 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | On the eleventh month, day yimao, eunuchs such as Sun Cheng gathered beneath the Xizong Hall, cut their sleeves to swear oaths, and plotted a coup. |
| AD 132 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | The scribal officials first made the Houfeng Didong Yi, an instrument for detecting earthquakes. |
| AD 144 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Emperor Shun died in the front hall of the Yutang Hall, and the two-year-old Emperor Chong ascended the throne. |
| AD 146 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Grand General Liang Ji assassinated Emperor Zhi with poison (zhendu). |
| AD 146 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Empress Dowager Liang and Liang Ji welcomed Emperor Huan (aged fifteen) and enthroned him in the Southern Palace. |
| AD 147 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Former Grand Commandants Li Gu and Du Qiao were imprisoned and died. |
| AD 159 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Emperor Huan ordered Zhang Biao, Commandant of the Directorate, to surround Liang Ji's house; Liang Ji and his wife killed themselves and their clan was executed. |
| AD 159 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | On the eighth month, day dingchou, Liang Ji, suspecting Xuan Chu and others, ordered the eunuch Zhang Yun to stand guard in the palace. Xuan Yuan arrested Zhang Yun; the emperor came out to the front hall, summoned the secretaries, and clarified the situation. The Director of Secretaries Yun Xun took back the seals, and stood guard at the city gates with weapons drawn. (A coup to execute Liang Ji.) |
| AD 166 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Li Ying, Commandant of the Directorate, and more than two hundred others were falsely accused of being partisans and imprisoned (the Partisan Proscriptions). |
| AD 166 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Zhang Sheng of Henei predicted amnesties by divination and had his son commit murder; Li Ying, Commandant of Divine Ritual, arrested and executed him. The eunuchs had Lei Shou, a disciple of Zhang Sheng, accuse Li Ying and others of consorting with Taixue students and slandering the court. (The first Party Prohibition.) |
| AD 167 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Emperor Huan died in the front hall of the Deyang Hall (aged 36). |
| AD 168 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Emperor Ling ascended the throne at the age of twelve and changed the era name to Jianning. |
| AD 168 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | The Zhongchangshi Cao Jie forged an edict and killed the Grand Tutor Chen Fan and the Grand General Dou Wu and others, exterminated their clans, and moved the Empress Dowager to the Southern Palace. |
| AD 169 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | The Zhongchangshi Hou Lan instigated the accusation of Yu Fang, Du Mi, Li Ying and others as members of the 'hooked faction' (gou dang) and imprisoned them; more than a hundred died. |
| AD 175 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Scholars were ordered to correct the texts of the Five Classics, to carve them on stone, and to erect them outside the gate of the Imperial Academy. |
| AD 178 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | They opened the 'Western Mansion' (Xidi) and began selling offices, starting with the Guannei Marquis, with entry payments in cash. |
| AD 179 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | The Zhongchangshi Wang Fu and the Grand Commandant Duan Jiong were imprisoned and died. |
| AD 184 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | In spring, Tang Zhou, a disciple of Zhang Jue, informed on him, and Ma Yuanyi was torn apart in Luoyang. More than a thousand were executed by edict, and when Ji Province tried to arrest Zhang Jue, Zhang Jue immediately ordered a simultaneous uprising and used the Yellow Turbans as their sign. |
| AD 185 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | A great fire broke out in the Southern Palace of Luoyang and was extinguished after half a month. |
| AD 188 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | The Eight Commandants of the Western Garden (Xiyuan) were established for the first time. |
| AD 189 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Emperor Ling died in the Jiade Hall of the Southern Palace, and his son Bian ascended the throne (aged 17). |
| AD 189 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | The eunuchs Zhang Rang and Duan Gui killed Grand General He Jin; Yuan Shu burned the East and West palaces and attacked the eunuchs. |
| AD 189 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Dong Zhuo deposed Emperor Shao and made him the Prince of Hongnong. |
| AD 189 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Emperor Xian ascended the throne at the age of nine, and the era was changed to Yonghan. |
| AD 189 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | On the eighth month, day wuchen, He Jin entered the Changle Palace and asked the Empress Dowager to execute the eunuchs. Zhang Yang and Duan Gui overheard and, with dozens of men armed, entered secretly by a side gate and lay in ambush. |
| AD 189 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | On the ninth month, day guiyou, Dong Zhuo gathered all the officials and said that the emperor was incompetent, and that he would set up the King of Chenliu, threatening to suppress any objection. The high ministers, in fear, could not answer. |
| AD 190 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | Dong Zhuo burned the palaces, ancestral temples and private houses of Luoyang. |
| AD 190 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | Dong Zhuo moved the emperor to Chang'an and burned the palaces of Luoyang. |
| AD 196 | Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals | The carriage of Emperor Xian reached Luoyang and entered the former house of the former Zhongchangshi Zhao Chong. |
| AD 196 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | Cao Cao reached Luoyang and guarded the capital; the emperor gave him the axe and the seal and made him Director of Affairs of the Secretariat. |
| AD 196 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | On day gengzi, Yang Feng and Han Xian escorted the emperor back east; in the seventh month, day jiazi, they reached Luoyang and lodged in the former house of the Zhongchangshi Cao Chong. In the eighth month he entered the Yang'an Hall of the Southern Palace, and Zhang Yang called it Yang'an, claiming it as his own merit. |
| AD 196 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Han Xian, relying on his merit, acted arbitrarily; Dong Cheng secretly summoned Cao Cao. Cao Cao arrived at Luoyang, reported the crimes of Han Xian and Zhang Yang, and on day xinhai held concurrently the posts of Commander of Escort Officers and Director of Secretaries, and killed three men including Secretary Feng Shi. |
| AD 220 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | Cao Cao died at Luoyang at the age of sixty-six. |
| AD 220 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | He built the Luoyang Palace for the first time and went to Luoyang. |
| AD 226 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | Cao Pi died at Jiafu Hall in Luoyang at the age of forty; in the sixth month he was buried at Shouyang Mausoleum. |
| AD 239 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | Emperor Ming entrusted his successor to Sima Yi, who had returned from Henei, and died at Jiafu Hall at the age of thirty-six. |
| AD 249 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | While the emperor was visiting the Gaoping Mausoleum, Sima Yi dismissed Cao Shuang and others; Cao Shuang's faction was destroyed to the third degree of kinship. |
| AD 249 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Grand Tutor Sima Yi, by the order of the Empress Dowager, closed all the city gates, led troops to occupy the Arsenal, and sent troops out onto the floating bridge over the Luo River. |
| AD 254 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | Sima Shi, by order of the Empress Dowager, deposed Emperor Qi Cao Fang and sent him back to Qi. |
| AD 254 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | Duke Gaogui, Cao Mao, entered Luoyang and ascended the throne as emperor in the Taiji Front Hall. |
| AD 260 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | The Gaogui Duke led his troops in revolt and was killed in front of Yunlong Gate at the age of twenty. |
| AD 260 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | Cao Huan, Duke of Changdao, ascended the throne in the Taiji Front Hall at Luoyang (as the Lord of Chenliu). |
| AD 260 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | On day jiayin, Duke Changdao entered Luoyang, ascended the throne that same day, was fifteen years old, declared a general amnesty and changed the era name. |
| AD 264 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | When Liu Shan moved his whole household to Luoyang, in the confusion only Xi Zheng and Zhang Tong abandoned their wives and children and followed. |
| AD 265 | Records of the Three Kingdoms (Sanguozhi) | By edict, an altar was set up at the southern suburbs and the imperial seals were sent to the Jin heir to receive the abdication; the Wei ruler was moved to Jinyong City (the fall of Wei). |
| AD 265 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | In the twelfth month, on day renxu, the Wei emperor ceded the throne to Jin, and on day jiazi came out to Jinyong City. |
| AD 266 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Accepting the abdication of the Wei emperor, he built an altar at Luoyang, ascended the throne, granted a general amnesty, and changed the era to Taishi. This founded the Western Jin. |
| AD 276 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | A great plague caused the death of more than half the population of Luoyang. |
| AD 280 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Sun Hao was enfeoffed as Marquis of Guiming, and was presented at Luoyang before a gathering of the ruler and his ministers. |
| AD 290 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Emperor Wu died at Hanzhang Hall at the age of 55. |
| AD 290 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Emperor Hui ascended the throne; Lady Jia was made empress, and Yang Jun was appointed grand tutor to assist the court. |
| AD 291 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Empress Jia's faction executed the Grand Tutor Yang Jun and his clan, to the third degree of kinship. |
| AD 291 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Empress Jia forged an edict ordering Prince of Chu Wei to kill Prince of Runan Liang and Wei Guan, and then executed Wei too. |
| AD 300 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | The crown prince Yu was demoted to commoner and confined with his three sons in Jinyong City. |
| AD 300 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Prince Zhao Lun and Prince Liang Rong deposed Empress Jia and killed Zhang Hua and Pei Wei, intensifying the War of the Eight Princes. |
| AD 300 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Prince Huainan Yun failed to attack Prince Zhao Lun and was killed. |
| AD 301 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Zhao Lun usurped the throne, moved Emperor Hui to Jinyong City, and called him Retired Emperor. |
| AD 301 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Wang Yu entered the palace and beheaded Sun Xiu and others, restoring Emperor Hui to the throne. |
| AD 303 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Prince Changsha Yi protected Emperor Hui and attacked and killed Prince Qi Jiong. |
| AD 303 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Prince of Hejian Yong and Prince of Chengdu Ying sent Zhang Fang and Lu Ji and others to press Luoyang, intending to attack Prince of Changsha Yi. |
| AD 303 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Zhang Fang entered Luoyang and set fire to the Qingming and Kaiyang gates, killing tens of thousands. |
| AD 303 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Prince of Donghai Yue captured Prince of Changsha Yi and confined him in Jinyong City; soon Zhang Fang killed him. |
| AD 304 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Zhang Fang plundered Luoyang extensively and returned to Chang'an. |
| AD 306 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Qi Hong and others escorted Emperor Hui back to Luoyang by ox cart. |
| AD 306 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Emperor Hui died at Xianyang Hall at the age of 48 (there are rumors of poisoning). |
| AD 309 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Liu Cong reached the Ximing Gate of Luoyang, but was utterly defeated by Prince Donghai Yue outside the Xuanyang Gate. |
| AD 309 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | In the eighth month of autumn, Han ruler Yuan sent Prince Cong and others to attack Luoyang; Cao Wu and others resisted, but were all defeated by Cong. |
| AD 310 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | When Prince Donghai Yue marched to Xuchang, the palace had no defenses and the famine was severe; corpses lay strewn inside the halls. |
| AD 311 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Liu Yao and Wang Mi entered Luoyang and captured it, burning the palace and the imperial tombs and killing more than 30,000. Emperor Huai fled to the Hualin Garden but was captured. |
| AD 328 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | On day jimao, Shi Hu, Prince of Zhongshan, with thirty thousand foot soldiers, circled from the north of the city to the west and attacked the central army of Zhao; Shi Kan and Shi Cong, each with eight thousand standard-bearers, struck the Zhao vanguard from the west of the city northward and fought at the Xiyang Gate. |
| AD 329 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Shi Le defeated Liu Yao at Luoyang and captured him. |
| AD 333 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Shi Hu left his heir in Xiangguo to guard it, and with seventy thousand troops attacked Lang at Jinyong; when Jinyong fell, he captured Lang, cut off his feet and beheaded him, and advanced toward Chang'an. |
| AD 365 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Murong Ke took Luoyang; Zhu Yao fled to Xiangyang, and Shen Jin died in battle. |
| AD 365 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Yan Grand Minister Ke and Prince of Wu Chui attacked Luoyang together. |
| AD 384 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Zhai Liao betrayed Fu Jian and rose in revolt; Murong Chui joined and attacked Fu Hui at Luoyang. |
| AD 390 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | When Western Yan ruler Yong led his army toward Luoyang, Zhu Xu crossed the Yellow River north from Heyin and struck, breaking him, so that Yong fled to Shangdang. |
| AD 399 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Yao Xing took Luoyang and captured Henan Governor Xin Gongjing. |
| AD 416 | Book of Jin (Jinshu), Imperial Annals | Yao Guang, general of the Later Qin Yao Hong, surrendered and handed over Luoyang. |
| AD 416 | History of the Southern Dynasties (Nanshi), Annals | Liu Yu's northern expedition reached Luoyang, surrounded Jinyong and forced its surrender. |
| AD 423 | Book of Song (Songshu), Annals | Wei general Daxi Ang broke through Jinyong and besieged Hulao; Mao Dezu drove him back for a time, but the enemy regathered. |
| AD 423 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | He reached Luoyang and viewed the Stone Classics. |
| AD 423 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Northern Wei Youlüdi attacked Jinyong; the Henan Governor Wang Juanzhi abandoned the city and fled. |
| AD 430 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | An Jie crossed the Yellow River and took Luoyang, which the Song had held. (He then pacified Wuli as well.) |
| AD 430 | History of the Southern Dynasties (Nanshi), Annals | The Northern Wei army took Jinyong City. |
| AD 430 | Book of Song (Songshu), Annals | Jinyong city fell to Wei. |
| AD 430 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | An Jie took Luoyang. |
| AD 430 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Northern Wei garrisons at Luoyang and Hulao abandon their cities and withdraw, and Song recovers Henan. |
| AD 430 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Northern Wei's An Jie takes Luoyang and kills more than 5,000 of the garrison (October). |
| AD 493 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | At Luoyang his ministers prostrated themselves before his horse and begged him to halt the southern campaign; he halted it and debated moving the capital. |
| AD 493 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | He ordered Mu Liang, Li Chong and Dong Jue to begin building the Luoyang capital (Luojing). |
| AD 493 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | He reached Luoyang, toured the ruins of the old palace, and wept. |
| AD 494 | History of the Southern Dynasties (Nanshi), Annals | Emperor Xiaowen of Northern Wei moved the capital to Luoyang. |
| AD 494 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | He went to the Western Palace in Luoyang. |
| AD 495 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | The six palaces and all civil and military officials moved to Luoyang. |
| AD 495 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | The people of Dai who had moved with him were registered as people of Luoyang in Henan and were forbidden to return north. |
| AD 495 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | The six palaces and the civil and military officials had all completed their move to Luoyang. |
| AD 496 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Northern Wei demotes Crown Prince Tuoba Xun to commoner and confines him in Wubi city, Heyang (intercalary month). |
| AD 497 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Northern Wei draws 200,000 troops from five prefectures (Ji, Ding, Ying, Shang and Ji) and readies its entrance. |
| AD 501 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | The 323 wards of Luoyang were built by fifty thousand men. |
| AD 515 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | Emperor Xuanwu died in the Shiqian Hall at the age of 33. |
| AD 515 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Emperor Xuanwu of Northern Wei dies in the Shiqian Hall, and the crown prince ascends as Emperor Xiaoming. |
| AD 520 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | Yuan Cha and Liu Teng confined Empress Dowager Hu in the North Palace and seized power. |
| AD 520 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Northern Wei's Yuan Cha and Liu Deng kill Yuan Yi, Prince of Qinghe, at night. |
| AD 528 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | Emperor Xiaoming died in the Xianyang Hall at the age of 19; a newborn princess was passed off as a prince, enthroned, and then immediately deposed. |
| AD 528 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | Ge Rong was escorted to Luoyang and beheaded in the city. |
| AD 528 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Erzhu Rong's cavalry massacres a large number of court officials (the Heyin Incident). |
| AD 528 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Chen Qingzhi defends Beizhong city, fighting eleven battles in three rounds a day and inflicting heavy losses. |
| AD 529 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | Yuan Hao, Prince of Beihai, backed by Liang, entered Luoyang; the emperor fled north. |
| AD 529 | Book of Liang (Liangshu), Annals | Yuan Ziyou, ruler of Wei, abandoned Luoyang and fled north of the Yellow River; Yuan Hao entered Luoyang. |
| AD 529 | Book of Liang (Liangshu), Annals | Erzhu Rong attacked Yuan Hao, killed him, and recovered Luoyang. |
| AD 529 | History of the Southern Dynasties (Nanshi), Annals | Yuan Hao entered the capital Luoyang and proclaimed himself emperor under the title Jianwu. |
| AD 529 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | Yuan Hao entered Luoyang (Emperor Xiaozhuang had fled to Henei). |
| AD 529 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | After Yuan Hao fled, Emperor Xiaozhuang returned to Luoyang and lodged in the Hualin Garden; soon afterward a soldier of Linying beheaded Yuan Hao. |
| AD 530 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | Emperor Xiaozhuang killed Erzhu Rong and Yuan Tianmu in the Mingguang Hall. |
| AD 530 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | Erzhu Zhao crossed the Yellow River and suddenly attacked the capital, capturing the emperor. |
| AD 530 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Emperor Xiaozhuang kills Erzhu Rong inside the palace (September). |
| AD 531 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | The Former Deposed Emperor Yuan Gong received the abdication and ascended the throne in the Taiji Hall at Luoyang. |
| AD 531 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Yuan Gong, Prince of Guangling, declines three times, then ascends as Emperor Jiemin. |
| AD 532 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | Entered Luoyang, deposed Emperor Jiemin and the Zhongxing emperor (the deposed ruler), and enthroned Emperor Xiaowu. |
| AD 532 | Book of Liang (Liangshu), Annals | Xue Fahu escorted Yuan Yue into Luoyang. |
| AD 532 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | Zhangsun Zhi entered the capital and beheaded Erzhu Shilong and Yanbo in the city streets. |
| AD 532 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | Emperor Chu, Yuan Xiu, was enthroned outside the eastern wall and ascended the Taiji Hall. |
| AD 534 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | When Gao Huan brought his army across from Hebei, Emperor Xiaowu fled to Chang'an. On the day jiyou Gao Huan entered Luoyang and stayed at Yongning Monastery. |
| AD 534 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | In Luoyang, Yuan Shanjian, heir of the Prince of Qinghe, was set up as Emperor Xiaojing. 'Wei was thereupon split in two' (division into Eastern and Western Wei). |
| AD 534 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | After Emperor Xiaowu fled to Chang'an, Gao Huan entered Luoyang and stayed at Yongning Monastery. |
| AD 534 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | Gao Huan entered Luoyang. |
| AD 538 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | When Hou Jing and others of Eastern Wei besieged Luoyang, Emperor Wen and Yuwen Tai marched east. |
| AD 538 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | Hou Jing and Gao Aocao besieged Dugu Ruyuan in Jinyong City in Luoyang. |
| AD 538 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Western Wei kills Song Xian, Governor of Xiyan of Eastern Wei, and captures 15,000 armored soldiers; those who drown in the Yellow River number in the tens of thousands (Hejiao battle at Mang Mountain). |
| AD 538 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Gao Huan attacks Jinyong city; Zhangsun Ziyan abandons and burns it, and Gao Huan demolishes Jinyong and returns. |
| AD 543 | Book of Wei (Weishu), Imperial Annals | The Battle of Mangshan: Gao Huan crushed the army of Yuwen Tai, beheading or capturing more than sixty thousand. |
| AD 543 | Book of Zhou (Zhoushu), Imperial Annals | He breaks Gao Huan's army with a night raid at Mangshan, but the left army under Zhao Gui and others is at a disadvantage, so he withdraws at night |
| AD 554 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | In the eighth month, Changshan King Gao Yan and others built Fa'e City, Xincheng, Yancheng and Henan City southwest of Luoyang. (In the ninth month the emperor came in person to lure the Zhou army, which did not come out.) |
| AD 564 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | In the leap ninth month, Zhou forces came out by three routes: Yuchi Jiong toward Luoyang, Yang Kui toward Zhiguan, and Quan Jingxuan toward Xuanhu. In the eleventh month, on the day jiawu, Yuchi Jiong besieged Luoyang. |
| AD 564 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | In the twelfth month, on the day renxu, Grand Preceptor Duan Shao crushed Yuchi Jiong and the others and lifted the siege of Luoyang. On the day dingmao the emperor reached Luoyang and remitted taxes. |
| AD 564 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | Duan Shao crushed Yuchi Jiong and others and lifted the siege of Luoyang. |
| AD 564 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | Yuchi Jiong besieged Luoyang; Yuwen Xian was stationed at Mangshan and Yuwen Hu at Shanzhou. (First Zhou campaign against Northern Qi.) |
| AD 564 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | When the Northern Qi army crossed the river and reached Luoyang at dawn, the Zhou forces scattered; Wang Xiong died and they withdrew. |
| AD 564 | Book of Zhou (Zhoushu), Imperial Annals | Yuchi Jiong besieges Luoyang; Yuwen Xian camps at Mangshan and Yuwen Hu is stationed at Shanzhou |
| AD 564 | Book of Zhou (Zhoushu), Imperial Annals | The Qi army crosses the Yellow River and reaches Luoyang; the Zhou army scatters in alarm, Wang Xiong is killed, and Yang Xin dies at Zhiguan; they withdraw (first campaign fails) |
| AD 575 | Book of Northern Qi (Bei Qishu), Annals | In the eighth month, Zhou forces entered the Luo River and camped at Mangshan, pressing on Luo City; they burned the floating bridge with fire boats, and the Heqiao was cut. In the intercalary month, Gao Anuogong left Jinyang to defend and reached Heyang, but the Zhou forces fled at night. |
| AD 575 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | Northern Zhou troops entered the Luo River, camped at Mangshan and pressed Luo City; they burned the floating bridge with fire boats, and the Heqiao was cut. |
| AD 578 | Book of Zhou (Zhoushu), Imperial Annals | Emperor Wu tours Ye, Huaizhou and Luozhou, and has a palace established at Huaizhou |
| AD 579 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | He mobilized soldiers from the eastern prefectures to build the Luoyang palace, with as many as forty thousand men at a time. |
| AD 579 | Book of Zhou (Zhoushu), Imperial Annals | Seeking to revive the old capital of Heluo, he mobilizes troops from Shandong, builds the Luoyang palace, and commands 40,000 workers at once |
| AD 584 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | Due to famine in the Guanzhong region, the Emperor went to Luoyang. |
| AD 594 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | A great drought struck Guanzhong; the Emperor led his households to Luoyang in search of food. |
| AD 594 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | In August 594, the emperor leads the people to Luoyang in search of food. |
| AD 604 | Book of Chen (Chenshu), Annals | The Later Ruler died at Luoyang in the eleventh month of the fourth year of Renshou of the Sui, at age 52, and was buried on Mang Mountain (posthumous title Yang). |
| AD 604 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | Emperor Yang visited Luoyang. |
| AD 604 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | An edict ordered the building of an Eastern Capital between the Yi and Luo rivers. |
| AD 605 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | He ordered Yang Su, Yang Da and Yuwen Kai to build the Eastern Capital (Luoyang) and filled it with residents moved from Yuzhou. |
| AD 605 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | Yang Su, Yang Da and Yuwen Kai were put in charge of building the Eastern Capital, and residents from the walled towns of Yuzhou were moved there to fill it. |
| AD 605 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | Over a million men and women of Henan were conscripted to dig the Tongji Canal, linking the Gu and Luo rivers to the Yellow River from the Western Garden, and the Yellow River to the Huai River at Banzhu. |
| AD 606 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | He entered the Eastern Capital from Yique with full ceremony and granted a general amnesty at the Duan Gate. |
| AD 606 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | The Eastern Capital was completed, and rewards were given to its supervisors. |
| AD 606 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | He entered the Eastern Capital from Yique with a full ceremonial procession of a thousand chariots and ten thousand cavalry. |
| AD 606 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | In January 606 (Xinyou day), Dongjing is completed, and Yuwen Kai, Grand Master of Works, is promoted in rank. |
| AD 606 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | In March 606 (Gengxu day), the emperor leaves Jiangdu; in April (Gengxu day), at Yique, he takes up the full ceremonial guard and, with a thousand chariots and ten thousand horsemen, enters Dongjing. |
| AD 607 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | He arrived at Dongdu. |
| AD 609 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | Dongjing was renamed Dongdu (Eastern Metropolis). |
| AD 609 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | He went to Dongdu, Luoyang. |
| AD 610 | History of the Northern Dynasties (Beishi), Annals | Dozens of bandits claiming to be Maitreya entered Luoyang through Jianguomen to plot a rebellion, and were beheaded by Yang Jian (暕), Prince of Qi. |
| AD 610 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | On the first morning of the new year, several dozen men calling themselves Maitreya Buddha entered through Jianguo Gate, seized the guards' weapons and plotted a revolt; Yang Jian, Prince of Qi, cut them down. |
| AD 610 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | In January 610, chieftains of many outlying domains gather at Luoyang, and an elaborate baixi variety show is staged at the Duanmen Gate, with 18,000 performers. |
| AD 612 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | He arrived at Dongdu, Luoyang. |
| AD 613 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | Yang Xuangan pressed on Dongdu; Pei Hongce, Commander of Henan, tried to resist but was defeated. |
| AD 613 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | In autumn 613, Yang Xuangan besieges Dongdu; Han Xiangguo of Liangjun rises in response, and Xuangan appoints him Commander of Henan; in ten days over 100,000 gather and plunder commanderies and counties, but when news of Xuangan's defeat at Xiangcheng arrives, they scatter. |
| AD 614 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | He arrived at Dongdu, Luoyang. |
| AD 615 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | He arrived at Dongdu, Luoyang. |
| AD 617 | Book of Sui (Suishu), Imperial Annals | Meng Rang entered the outskirts of Dongdu at night, burned the Fengdu market, and withdrew. |
| AD 620 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Prince Qin Li Shimin was ordered to lead several commanderies against Wang Shichong. |
| AD 620 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | Prince Shimin set out to subdue Wang Shichong at Luoyang. |
| AD 621 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Wang Shichong surrendered the Eastern Capital Luoyang, and Henan was pacified. |
| AD 621 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | Prince Shimin captured Wang Shichong and presented him at court. |
| AD 657 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | The Luoyang Palace was made the Eastern Capital. |
| AD 680 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | Crown Prince Li Xian was deposed and Li Zhe, Prince of Ying, was made crown prince; the era was changed. |
| AD 683 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Emperor Gaozong died at the age of 56 in Luoyang at Zhengguan Hall, leaving an edict that the crown prince should ascend. |
| AD 683 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | Emperor Gaozong died in the Zhenguan Hall at the age of 56; the era was changed to Hongdao. |
| AD 684 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Wu Zetian deposed Emperor Li Xian, made him Prince of Luling, and confined him separately. |
| AD 684 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | In February 684 (Wuwu day), the Empress Dowager gathers the officials at Qianyuan Hall; Pei Yan and others enter the palace with troops, proclaim the Empress Dowager's order, depose Emperor Zhongzong as Prince of Luling, and lead him down from the hall. |
| AD 688 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Wu Zetian performed a sacrifice to the Luo River and received the title 'Divine Sacred Map'. |
| AD 688 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | The Mingtang was torn down and renamed Wanxiang Shengong, and a general amnesty was declared. |
| AD 688 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | In September 688, Prince Han Yuanxi, Prince Lu Lingkui, Huang Gongxuan and Princess Changle are seized in Dongdu and forced to commit suicide; the city is renamed Hui (虺), and all those loyal to the Tang are killed. |
| AD 690 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Wu Zetian was given the honorific title Divine Sage Emperor, and Emperor Ruizong was lowered to Huangsi (the Zhou was founded). |
| AD 690 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | The state name was changed to Zhou and she ascended the throne as Holy Divine Emperor; Ruizong was demoted to Heir Successor. |
| AD 705 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Zhang Jianzhi and others entered the palace as Yulin guards and killed Zhang Yizhi and his brother Zhang Changzong (the Shenlong coup). |
| AD 705 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Wu Zetian died at the age of 83 at the Xianju Hall of Shangyang Palace. |
| AD 705 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Emperor Zhongzong restored the national name to Tang. |
| AD 705 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | Zhang Jianzhi and others led Yulin troops in revolt, killed the brothers Zhang Yizhi and Zhang Changzong, and restored Zhongzong (the Shenlong Coup); Empress Wu was moved to Shangyang Palace. |
| AD 705 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | The state name was changed back to Tang (the Zhou dynasty was abolished). |
| AD 705 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | Empress Wu died in the Shangyang Palace. |
| AD 755 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | An Lushan took the Eastern Capital Luoyang and killed the military governors Li Cheng, Lu Yi and others. |
| AD 755 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | An Lushan took the Eastern Capital (Luoyang), and Li Cheng, the administrator left in charge, died in battle. |
| AD 755 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | In December 755 (Dingyou day), An Lushan takes the Dongjing; the enemy enters from all four gates beating drums, releases his troops to kill and plunder. |
| AD 757 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Prince Guangping entered the Eastern Capital Luoyang. |
| AD 757 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | The Eastern Capital (Luoyang) was recovered, and An Qingxu fled to Hebei. |
| AD 759 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Shi Siming took Luoyang, and Li Guangbi defended Heyang. |
| AD 759 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | Shi Siming took the Eastern Capital and the four prefectures of Qi, Ru, Zheng and Hua. |
| AD 762 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Prince Yong Li Kuo crushed Shi Chaoyi's army at Hengshui and killed or captured 60,000; all the prefectures and counties of Hebei were pacified. |
| AD 762 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | Li Kuo, Prince of Yong (later Emperor Dezong), defeated Shi Chaoyi at Hengshui and recovered Heyang and the Eastern Capital. |
| AD 762 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Pugu Huai'en takes Dongjing and Heyang city and captures Xu Shuji, Secretariat Director (中書令), and Wang Zhou, who are later released by imperial edict. |
| AD 815 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Li Shidao hid assassins among the monk Yuan Jing of Songshan and the Jinzhu Yuan of Luoyang, intending to burn the palace, but the garrison commander of Luoyang surrounded and stopped them. |
| AD 815 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | Zi Jiazhen, a subordinate of Li Shidao, rebelled at the Eastern Capital; the administrator Lü Yuanying defeated him. |
| AD 880 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Huang Chao's army took Luoyang, the Eastern Capital; Liu Yunzhang, the garrison commander, went out with his subordinate officials to meet them. |
| AD 880 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Huang Chao takes Eastern Capital Luoyang; Liu Yunzhang, Governor of the Eastern Capital, leads the officials to welcome him. |
| AD 885 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Qin Zongquan takes Eastern Capital Luoyang. |
| AD 904 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | To cut off the pretext of restoring the dynasty that Li Keyong and others were using, Zhu Quanzhong had Emperor Zhaozong murdered. |
| AD 904 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | Zhu Quanzhong moved the Tang capital to Luoyang. |
| AD 904 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | A subordinate of Zhu Quanzhong forced his way into the palace gate, and that night Emperor Zhaozong was murdered at age thirty-eight. |
| AD 904 | New Book of Tang (Xin Tangshu), Annals | Emperor Zhaoxuan (Emperor Ai) ascended the throne before the coffin. |
| AD 904 | New History of the Five Dynasties (Xin Wudai shi), Annals | Emperor Zhaozong passed through Shanzhou from the western capital, Chang'an, and arrived at Luoyang. |
| AD 904 | New History of the Five Dynasties (Xin Wudai shi), Annals | Zhu Yougong, Shi Shucong, and Jiang Xuanhui carried out the murder, and Emperor Zhaozong died. |
| AD 904 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Zhu Quanzhong repeatedly asks Emperor Zhaozong to move the capital to Luoyang. |
| AD 904 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | When he hears that Emperor Zhaozong has been killed, Zhu Quanzhong pretends shock, weeps, and throws himself to the ground. |
| AD 905 | Old Book of Tang (Jiu Tangshu), Annals | Privy Commissioner Jiang Xuanhui had Li Yu, Prince of De, and eight other princes made drunk at Jiuqu Pond and then strangled. |
| AD 909 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Later Liang moves the ancestral tablets of the imperial temple to Luoyang, and Zhu Wen leaves Daliang for Luoyang. |
| AD 912 | Old History of the Five Dynasties (Jiu Wudai shi), Annals | Han Qing, with five hundred household troops, mingled with Zhu Yougui's Kongheshi guards, hid inside the palace, cut through the gates at night and reached the bedchamber, and the attendants all scattered. |
| AD 912 | New History of the Five Dynasties (Xin Wudai shi), Annals | While Taizu was gravely ill, Zhu Youguei, Prince of Ying, rebelled, and Taizu died. |
| AD 912 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Zhu Youguei kills Prince Bo Zhu Youwen with a false edict and takes the throne at Luoyang. |
| AD 913 | New History of the Five Dynasties (Xin Wudai shi), Annals | Yuan Xiangxian led the imperial guard against Zhu Youguei and killed him. |
| AD 923 | New History of the Five Dynasties (Xin Wudai shi), Annals | Zhuangzong went to Luojing (Luoyang). |
| AD 923 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Zhuangzong leaves Daliang and arrives at Luoyang in the twelfth month. |
| AD 925 | Old History of the Five Dynasties (Jiu Wudai shi), Annals | On day Renyin, the empress dowager died at Changshou Palace; the emperor mourned within the palace and had her last instructions announced outside. |
| AD 925 | Old History of the Five Dynasties (Jiu Wudai shi), Annals | Li Jiji, Prince of Wei and commissioner of the Xingsheng Palace, was made overall commander of the four-direction field headquarters of Xichuan, and Guo Chongtao, Chancellor and Privy Commissioner, was made campaign commissioner of the northeast field headquarters of Xichuan. |
| AD 925 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Luoyang is again made the Eastern Capital, and Xingtang Prefecture is set as Yedu. |
| AD 925 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Meng Zhixiang arrives at Luoyang and receives generous hospitality. |
| AD 926 | Old History of the Five Dynasties (Jiu Wudai shi), Annals | The emperor was struck by a stray arrow; at midday he died beneath the corridor of the Jiangxiao Palace, aged forty-three. |
| AD 926 | Old History of the Five Dynasties (Jiu Wudai shi), Annals | In the fourth month of summer, first year of Tiancheng, day Bingwu, the emperor moved from Xingsheng Palace to the West Palace; civil and military officials wore mourning white, and the emperor, in sackcloth, attended the bier. |
| AD 926 | Old History of the Five Dynasties (Jiu Wudai shi), Annals | Of the several hundred eunuchs who fled when the realm fell into turmoil under Emperor Zhuangzong, the seventy-odd who had become monks and made their way to Taiyuan were all executed in the capital. |
| AD 926 | New History of the Five Dynasties (Xin Wudai shi), Annals | Zhuangzong died at age forty-three in the rebellion of Guo Congqian. |
| AD 926 | New History of the Five Dynasties (Xin Wudai shi), Annals | Li Siyuan entered Luoyang, became regent, and ascended the throne before the coffin. |
| AD 926 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Former Shu's ruler Wang Yan, together with his clan and thousands of officials, is escorted to Luoyang. |
| AD 926 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Zhuangzong leaves Luoyang and arrives at Sishui. |
| AD 926 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | After three requests from the officials, Li Siyuan accepts supervising the state and enters the Xingsheng Palace. |
| AD 930 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | The court strips Dong Zhang of his titles and raises an army to suppress him; Shi Jingtang is made Dongchuan Operations Commissioner. |
| AD 933 | Old History of the Five Dynasties (Jiu Wudai shi), Annals | On the first day of the twelfth month, day Guimao, mourning was begun at the West Palace, and the emperor ascended the throne before the bier. |
| AD 933 | New History of the Five Dynasties (Xin Wudai shi), Annals | Prince of Qin Congrong led his troops into the Xingsheng Palace, failed, and was executed. |
| AD 933 | New History of the Five Dynasties (Xin Wudai shi), Annals | Mingzong died at the Yonghe Hall at age sixty-seven. |
| AD 933 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Li Congrong, Prince of Qin, sets an ambush at Tianjin Bridge but is defeated by Zhu Hongshi's cavalry and killed. |
| AD 933 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Emperor Mingzong of Later Tang dies. |
| AD 933 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | The Prince of Song (Emperor Min) ascends the throne. |
| AD 934 | New History of the Five Dynasties (Xin Wudai shi), Annals | Congke entered the capital as regent and then ascended the throne. |
| AD 934 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | Emperor Min escapes from the palace through the Xuanwu Gate and flees. |
| AD 934 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | The Prince of Lu deposes Emperor Min and ascends the throne before the coffin (Last Emperor). |
| AD 936 | New History of the Five Dynasties (Xin Wudai shi), Annals | The Deposed Emperor died at age fifty-one, having immolated himself in the intercalary eleventh month. |
| AD 936 | New History of the Five Dynasties (Xin Wudai shi), Annals | Emperor Gaozu came from Taiyuan and entered the city (in the intercalary eleventh month). |
| AD 936 | Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) | The last Tang emperor sets himself on fire with his family at Xuanwu Tower, and Later Tang falls; Shi Jingtang enters Luoyang. |
| AD 939 | Old History of the Five Dynasties (Jiu Wudai shi), Annals | A great flood struck the Western Capital; the Yi, Luo and Jian rivers all overflowed and destroyed the Tianjin Bridge. |
| AD 947 | Old History of the Five Dynasties (Jiu Wudai shi), Annals | The puppet Western Capital guardian Liu Xi abandoned Luoyang, retreated south to Xuzhou, then went to the Eastern Capital, and Fang Tai, patrol commissioner of Luoyang, took on the guardian's duties himself. |
| AD 1161 | History of Jin (Jinshi), Annals | Departing from Zhongdu, he reached the Henan Prefecture, went hunting, and visited the hot springs of Ruzhou. |
| AD 1234 | History of Song (Songshi), Annals | Zhu Yangzu, Secretary of the Court of Imperial Sacrifices, and Lin Tuo were sent to Luoyang to visit the eight imperial tombs. |
| AD 1234 | Xu Zizhi Tongjian (Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror) | In the third month, day xinyou, Zhu Yangzu, assistant of the Taichang Office, and Lin Tuo, Hewen Zhihou, were sent to Luoyang to pay homage at the eight mausoleums. |
| AD 1361 | Xu Zizhi Tongjian (Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror) | In the sixth month Chahan Temur, learning of the internal strife in the Shandong islands, in the seventh month on day bingshen, though ill, came from the island to Luoyang, discussed the date of dispatch with the generals, sent the Bing, Ze and Lu forces by several routes, crossed at Mengjin and advanced east. |
| AD 1368 | History of Ming (Mingshi), Annals | Xu Da and Chang Yuchun routed the Yuan army north of the Luo River and besieged Henan (Luoyang); Prince Liang Aluwen surrendered. |
| AD 1368 | Xu Zizhi Tongjian (Continuation of the Comprehensive Mirror) | In the third month, day wushen, the Ming's Xu Da and Chang Yuchun entered Luoyang through Hulao Pass; Tuoyin Temu'er led fifty thousand and camped north of the Luo River, but Chang Yuchun charged alone on a single horse and broke them greatly. |
| AD 1641 | History of Ming (Mingshi), Annals | Li Zicheng took Henan (Luoyang), and Prince Fu Zhu Changxun was killed. |