5 events the sources record for this year, grouped by region.
What happened
China (5)
Remnants of the Yellow Turbans, Guo Da and others, rose at Baibo Valley in Xihe and invaded Taiyuan and Hedong. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷8 孝靈帝紀 中平5年)
Bandit Wang Guo of Liangzhou besieged Chencang, and the General of the Right Huangfu Song came to relieve it. (Book of the Later Han (Hou Hanshu), Annals 後漢書卷8 孝靈帝紀 中平5年)
Ma Xiang and Zhao Zhi of Yizhou rose in Mianzhu, calling themselves Yellow Turbans, killed the governor Xi Jian, then attacked Bajun and Jianwei and in one month broke three commanderies. Shang, who called himself the Son of Heaven, was defeated by the Zongshi Jia Long, and when Liu Yan came, the seat of government was moved to Mianzhu. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑 卷059 (원문 단락 #4831, 188년))
In the eleventh month, Wang Guo besieged Chencang, so Huangfu Song was reinstated as Left General and made to hold it with Dong Zhuo, the Right General, with forty thousand men. (Zizhi Tongjian (Comprehensive Mirror) 資治通鑑 卷059 (원문 단락 #4840, 188년))