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605
| 605 • Yángdi introduces an imperial examination, designed to select the best administrative officials (after they received the 'jinshi') for the state. Beginning of a long bureaucratic tradition of scholar-officialdom in China. |
685
Dec 16
Age: 81y
deathMurderedat Andene Monastery by his enemy Gundewin, in Haute-Garonne, Mid-Pyrenees, France ⇓ 1 Source ⇓ |
| 685 • Empress Wu Zetian sends a pair of giant pandas to the Japanese court of emperor Tenmu as a diplomatic gift (approximate date). |