Timeline of the Khitans

See also: Timeline of the Tang dynasty, Timeline of the Jurchens, and Timeline of the Tanguts

Liao dynasty (916–1125)

Collapse of the Liao dynasty (1117–1124)

Western Liao (Qara Khitai) (1124–1218)

This is a timeline of the history of the Khitans. The Khitans were a nomadic people in Northeast Asia related to the Xianbei. Following the collapse of the Tang dynasty, they established the Liao dynasty in 916, encompassing parts of modern-day China, Mongolia, North Korea, and Russia. The Liao dynasty was eventually conquered by the Jin dynasty in 1125. Remnants of the Liao court led by Yelü Dashi fled westward to Central Asia where they established the Western Liao dynasty. In 1211, the Western Liao throne was usurped by a Naiman called Kuchlug. In 1218, the Mongol Empire defeated and conquered the Western Liao dynasty.

4th century

Year	Date	Event
388		The Kumo Xi are defeated by the Northern Wei. As a result, the Khitans split from the Kumo Xi and emerge as a recognizable group of people around the Songmo region in modern Heshigten Banner and Ongniud Banner; at some point they migrate to the east of Daling River in modern Beipiao, Fuxin, and Zhangwu County[1]

6th century

Year	Date	Event
553		Khitans raid Northern Qi, who retaliate dealing devastating losses to the Khitans[2]
585		Khitans move to the area between the Laoha River and Liao River[3]

7th century

Year	Date	Event
605		Yami Qaghan of the Eastern Turkic Khaganate attacks the Khitans on behalf of the Sui dynasty[4]
618		Dahe Duoluo comes to power
619		Khitans led by Sun Aocao, great-grandfather of Sun Wanrong, submit to the Tang dynasty[5]
627		Dahe Mohui succeeds Dahe Duoluo
628		Khitans led by Dahe Mohui submit to the Tang dynasty as vassals[6]
644		Dahe Kuge succeeds Dahe Mohui
648		Khitans submit to the Tang dynasty as vassals[7]
653		Abugu succeeds Dahe Kuge
654		Mohe and Goguryeo attack the Khitans[8]
660		Tang dynasty attacks the Khitans and captures their leader Abugu at Songmo; Abugu is sent to Luoyang;[9]
675		Dahe Jinzhong comes to power
696		Li Jinzhong (Mushang Khan) of the Khitans along with his brother-in-law Sun Wanrong revolt against Tang hegemony and attack Hebei; Li dies soon after and Sun succeeds him[10]
697		Tang dynasty and Qapaghan Qaghan of the Second Turkic Khaganate defeat Sun Wanrong and Khitans become vassals of the Turks;[11] Dahe Shihuo succeeds Sun Wanrong

8th century

Year	Date	Event
716		Khitans break alliance with the Turks and ally with Tang[12]
717		Dahe Suogu succeeds Dahe Shihuo
720		Ketuyu attacks Suogu and Suogu flees to the governor-general of Ying Prefecture, who sends 500 Tang soldiers to back Suogu but is defeated[13]
		Dahe Yugan succeeds Dahe Suogu
724		Dahe Tugan succeeds Dahe Yugan
725		Dahe Shaogu succeeds Dahe Tugan, who fled to the Tang dynasty in fear of Ketuyu
730		Ketuyu of the Khitans attacks Tang[14]
		Julü succeeds Dahe Shaogu
732		Tang forces inflict heavy casualties on the Khitans and Kumo Xi[15]
733		A Tang-Kumo Xi army attacks a Turk-Khitan army[16]
734		Zhang Shougui defeats Khitan forces in Youzhou (Hebei)[17]
735		Guozhe murders Ketuyu and succeeds Julü
736		An Lushan attacks the Khitans but is defeated[18]
740		An Lushan attacks the Khitans[13]
745		Two Khitan tribes revolt and are defeated by An Lushan[13]
746		Kailuo succeeds Guozhe
750		Chinese cultural dominance in Liaoning disappears and is replaced by Khitan culture[19]
752		An Lushan attacks the Khitans[20]
778		Su Khagan succeeds Kailuo
795		60,000 Kumo Xi raid the Tang dynasty and are defeated by Liu Ji[21]

9th century

Year	Date	Event
800		Bala Khagan succeeds Su Khagan
820		Zhaogu Khagan succeeds Bala Khagan
830		Kumo Xi raid Youzhou and are defeated by Li Zaiyi[21]
842		Qushu succeeds Zhaogu Khagan
847		The Kumo Xi rebel against the Tang dynasty and are defeated by Zhang Zhongwu[22]
860		Xi'er succeeds Qushu
882		Qinde succeeds Xi'er
890		The Khitans drive the Kyrgyz away from the Orkhon Valley[23]

10th century

900s

Year	Date	Event
901		Abaoji is elected leader of the Yila tribe[24]
903		Abaoji becomes Yuyue, commander of all the Khitan nation's military forces[25]
905		Abaoji secures an alliance with Li Keyong in Datong[25]
907	27 February	Khitan chieftain Abaoji becomes khagan of the Khitans[26]
908		Abaoji attacks the Shiwei[27]

910s

Year	Date	Event
910		Abaoji subdues a rebellion by the Kumo Xi[27]
912		Abaoji attacks the Zubu[27]
915		Abaoji attacks the Khongirad[27]
916		Abaoji declares himself emperor of the Khitans[28] and force Goryeo and Silla to pay tribute[29]
917		Wuyue offers the Khitans naphtha but they refuse[29]
918		Khitans relocate their capital to Shangjing, the Supreme Capital[30]
919		Khitans subdue the Khongirad[31]

920s

Year	Date	Event
922		Abaoji raids Jin[32]
923		Abaoji raids Later Tang[32]
924		Abaoji conquers the Tartars[33]
926		Khitans conquer Balhae and set up the puppet kingdom of Dongdan[34]
	6 September	Abaoji dies and his son Yelü Bei withdraws his claim to the throne, and the second son Yelü Deguang becomes Emperor Taizong of Liao[35]
928		Khongirad rebels in the north[35]
929		Emperor Taizong of Liao orders the relocation of the Dongdan Kingdom and its people to the Eastern Capital in modern Liaoyang[35]

930s

Year	Date	Event
930		Yelü Bei flees to Later Tang[35]
933		Khitans attack the Tanguts[35]
936	28 November	Khitans install Shi Jingtang as emperor of the Later Jin. In return Shi transfers 16 prefectures in Shanxi and Hebei to the Liao.[36]
937		Shi Jingtang of the Later Jin kills Yelü Bei[35]

940s

Year	Date	Event
947		The Khitan state is named the Liao dynasty[28]
		Liao dynasty invades Later Jin and sacks Xiang Prefecture, killing most of its population[36]
	15 May	Emperor Taizong of Liao dies and the son of Yelü Bei, Yelü Ruan, succeeds him as Emperor Shizong of Liao[37]

950s

Year	Date	Event
951	7 October	Emperor Shizong of Liao is murdered by a relative and is succeeded by Yelü Jing, son of Emperor Taizong of Liao, who becomes Emperor Muzong of Liao[38]
952		Liao dynasty assists Northern Han in repelling Later Zhou[39]
954		Liao dynasty assists Northern Han in repelling Later Zhou[39]
959		Later Zhou invades the Liao dynasty but retreats after their emperor dies[40]

960s

Year	Date	Event
960	February	Zhao Kuangyin declares himself Emperor Taizu of Song, replacing Later Zhou[41]
963		Minor skirmishes occur along the Liao dynasty and Song dynasty borders[42]
964		Liao dynasty assists Northern Han in repelling Song dynasty[42]
965		Khongirad and Shiwei tribes rebel[43]
967		Minor skirmishes occur along the Liao dynasty and Song dynasty border[42]
969	12 March	Emperor Muzong of Liao is murdered by his attendants and is succeeded by Yelü Xian, son of Emperor Shizong of Liao, who becomes Emperor Jingzong of Liao[42]

970s

Year	Date	Event
973		Jurchens raid Liao dynasty[44]
975		Liao dynasty attacks Jeongan but fails[45]
976		Liao dynasty assists Northern Han in repelling Song dynasty[46]
		Jurchens raid Liao dynasty[44]
977		Liao dynasty assists Northern Han in repelling Song dynasty[46]
		An examination hall is built in Southern Capital[47]
979		Liao dynasty attempts to assist Northern Han in repelling Song dynasty but is intercepted en route and demolished[48]
		Battle of Gaoliang River: Song dynasty invades Liao dynasty and is defeated[48]

980s

Year	Date	Event
980		Emperor Jingzong of Liao invades the Song dynasty and retakes territory in Hebei[48]
982		Emperor Jingzong of Liao invades the Song dynasty but is defeated[48]
	13 October	Emperor Jingzong of Liao dies and his son Yelü Longxu succeeds him as Emperor Shengzong of Liao; Empress Xiao Yanyan becomes regent[44]
983		The Liao dynasty reverts to calling itself the Khitans[28]
986		Song dynasty attacks the Khitans but is defeated[49]
988		Khitans begin holding regular imperial examinations[47]

990s

Year	Date	Event
992		Khitans attack the Tanguts[50]
993		First conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War: Khitans invade Goryeo and acquire nominal tributary status over Goryeo[51]
997		Zubu tribes rebel[52]
998		Khitans invade the Song dynasty[50]

11th century

1000s

Year	Date	Event
1000		Khitan forces retreat from the Song dynasty after failing to take key cities[50]
1001		Khitans attack the Song dynasty but are repulsed[50]
1003		Khitans invade the Song dynasty and retreat without making permanent gains[50]
1004		Emperor Shengzong of Liao conducts a full-scale invasion of the Song dynasty which ends in stalemate and the Chanyuan Treaty, an agreement to an annual payment of silk and silver from the Song to the Khitans[53]
1006		The Kumo Xi are assimilated into the Khitan nation[54]
1007		Zubu tribes rebel[52]
1009		Empress Xiao Yanyan dies[55]

1010s

Year	Date	Event
1010		Second conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War: Mokjong of Goryeo is murdered by Kang Cho and the Khitans send an expedition to punish him; Kang Cho is killed[55]
1012		Zubu tribes rebel[52]
1018		Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War: Khitans invade Goryeo but are defeated[56]
1019		Third conflict in the Goryeo–Khitan War: Khitans prepares another army to attack Goryeo[56]

1020s

Year	Date	Event
1020		Hyeonjong of Goryeo sends envoys to pay tribute to the Khitans[56]
1027		Khitans attack the Ganzhou Uyghur Kingdom but are repelled and then ambushed by Zubu tribes[57]
1029		Da Yanlin, a distant relative of the defunct Balhae regime, rebels; he is defeated[58]

1030s

Year	Date	Event
1031	25 June	Emperor Shengzong of Liao dies and his son Yelü Zongzhen succeeds him as Emperor Xingzong of Liao; Xiao Noujin becomes regent[59]
1034		Xiao Noujin attempts to dethrone Emperor Xingzong of Liao but fails and is banished[60]
1038	10 November	Li Yuanhao declares himself Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia[61]
1039		Xiao Noujin returns to the capital[62]

1040s

Year	Date	Event
1042		Khitans force the Song dynasty to increase annual tribute to 200,000 taels of silver and 300,000 bolts of silk[63]
1044		Khitans attack the Western Xia but fail[63]
1049		Khitans attack Western Xia but are repelled[64]

1050s

Year	Date	Event
1050		Khitans attack Western Xia and extract tribute[64]
1055	28 August	Emperor Xingzong of Liao dies and is succeeded by his son Yelü Hongji, who becomes Emperor Daozong of Liao[65]
		All officials are required to wear Chinese court dress[66]
1056		The Pagoda of Fogong Temple is completed[67]
1059		Institutes of higher learning are established in the capitals and prefectural and county schools are established[66]

1060s

Year	Date	Event
1063		A group of Khitan dissidents ambush Emperor Daozong of Liao but are defeated[68]
1066		Khitans revert to calling their state the Liao dynasty[28]
1069		Zubu tribes rebel[52]

1070s

Year	Date	Event
1076		Trade of gunpowder ingredients with the Liao dynasty and Western Xia is outlawed by the Song dynasty[69]
1082		Unusually heavy snowfall kills 70 percent of livestock and horses[70]

1080s

Year	Date	Event
1085		The Shilu, the Veritable Records, are produced[71]

1090s

Year	Date	Event
1093		Mogusi of the Zubu and the Dilie tribes of western Heilongjiang raid the Liao dynasty[52]

12th century

1100s

Year	Date	Event
1100		Mogusi of the Zubu is captured and hacked to pieces at the capital[72]
		The Tianning Temple (Beijing) is completed[73]
1101	12 February	Emperor Daozong of Liao dies and his grandson Yelü Yanxi succeeds him as Emperor Tianzuo of Liao[72]
1102		The Zubu and Dilie tribes are pacified[72]

1110s

Year	Date	Event
1114		The Jurchens under Wanyan Aguda attack the Liao dynasty[74]
1115		Wanyan Aguda declares himself emperor of the Jin dynasty
		Yelü Zhangnu rebels and is defeated[75]
1116		Gao Yongchang rebels in the east and asks the Jurchens for help and ends up getting annexed by the Jin dynasty[76]
1117		Emperor Taizu of Jin defeats the Khitan army of the Liao dynasty[76]
1118		Zubu tribes rebel against the Liao dynasty and Liao territory suffers from famine[77]
		Emperor Taizu of Jin captures the Liao dynasty's Eastern Capital[78]

1120s

Year	Date	Event
1120		Emperor Taizu of Jin captures the Liao dynasty's Supreme Capital[77]
1121		Emperor Taizu of Jin captures the Liao dynasty's Central Capital[79]
1122		Emperor Tianzuo of Liao flees the Southern Capital and his uncle Yelü Chun is declared emperor of Northern Liao, however he dies three months later and the title is passed down to Yelü Ding, the son in hiding with his father the emperor also in hiding; real power goes to Empress Dowager Xiao Defei[79]
		Jin dynasty conquers the Western Capital and Southern Capital[79]
		Yelü Dashi and Empress Dowager Xiao Defei retreat to the west and meet up with Emperor Tianzuo of Liao, who executes the empress for disloyalty[80]
1123		Song dynasty attacks the Liao dynasty but is repelled[81]
		Yelü Dashi is captured by the Jin dynasty and leads an attack on Emperor Tianzuo of Liao, who escapes; afterwards Yelü Dashi escapes from the Jurchens and rejoins the emperor[82]
1124		Emperor Tianzuo of Liao attacks the Jin dynasty despite warnings from Yelü Dashi[82]
		Yelü Dashi declares himself king and flees with 200 followers to the Orkhon River, where he eventually takes the title of gurkhan, meaning "Universal Khan"[82]
1125	26 March	Emperor Tianzuo of Liao is captured by the Jin dynasty; so ends the Liao dynasty[82]
1128		Emperor Tianzuo of Liao dies in captivity[82]
1129		Yelü Dashi annexes two Jin tribes[83]

1130s

Year	Date	Event
1130		Yelü Dashi leaves the Orkhon River with 20,000 followers and travels to the Kingdom of Qocho where the ruler welcomes him[82]
1131	summer	Yelü Dashi attacks the Karakhanids at Kashgar but is repelled[84]
1134		Yelü Dashi captures Balasagun and vassalizes the nearby Kankalis, Karluks, Kyrgyz, and Kingdom of Qocho[85]
		Yelü Dashi launches an invasion of the Jin dynasty, which ends in failure[86]
1137		Yelü Dashi defeats Mahmud of the Western Karakhanids near Khujand and annexes Fergana and Tashkent[87]
		Khitans raid Jin dynasty[88]

1140s

Year	Date	Event
1141	9 September	Battle of Qatwan: Yelü Dashi annihilates the army of Ahmad Sanjar of the Seljuk Empire and vassalizes the Khwarazmian dynasty[89]
1142		Qara Khitai plunders Khwarezm and forces Atsiz to pay an annual tribute of 30,000 dinars[89]
1143		Yelü Dashi dies and his wife Xiao Tabuyan succeeds him as regent[90]

1150s

Year	Date	Event
1151		Yelü Yilie, son of Yelü Dashi, becomes gurkhan of the Qara Khitai[91]

1160s

Year	Date	Event
1161		Khitans rebel against the Jin dynasty[92]
1163		The Khitan rebellion is defeated by the Jin dynasty[92]
		Yelü Yilie dies and is succeeded by his sister, Yelü Pusuwan[93]
1165		Qara Khitai conquers Balkh[94]

1170s

Year	Date	Event
1171		Qara Khitai defeats a Khwarazmian army[94]
1172		Qara Khitai assists Ala ad-Din Tekish in taking the Khwarazmian dynasty from his brother Sultan Shah of Khwarezm[95]
1175		Naimans and Kankalis switch sides to the Jin dynasty[96]
1177		Yelü Pusuwan is discovered in an affair with Xiao Fuguzhi and gets executed; Yelü Yilie's son Yelü Zhilugu becomes gurkhan of the Qara Khitai[97]

1180s

Year	Date	Event
1181		Qara Khitai assists Sultan Shah of Khwarezm in taking Merv, Sarakhs, and Abiward[98]
		Kipchaks raid the Qara Khitai[98]

1190s

Year	Date	Event
1198		Qara Khitai assists Ala ad-Din Tekish against the Ghurids but is defeated and loses Balkh[99]

13th century

1200s

Year	Date	Event
1204		Qara Khitai defeats Muhammad of Ghor[100]
		Kashgar and Khotan rebel unsuccessfully against the Qara Khitai[101]
1205		Ghurids seize Termez from the Qara Khitai[102]
1206		Qara Khitai retakes Termez[102]
	spring	Kokochu, also known as Teb Tengri, chief shaman of the Mongols, bestows upon Temüjin the title of Genghis Khan, "Oceanic Ruler" of the Mongol Empire, at the kurultai of Burkhan Khaldun, sacred mountain of the Mongols[103]
1207		Muhammad II of Khwarezm captures Bukhara and Samarkand[104]
1208		Kuchlug of the Naimans arrives at the Qara Khitai court[105]
1209		Kingdom of Qocho rebels against Qara Khitai and switches allegiance to the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan[105]
		Qara Khitai captures Samarkand[106]

1210s

Year	Date	Event
1210		Kuchlug sacks Uzgen[106]
	August	A Qara Khitai army is defeated by Muhammad II of Khwarezm, who captures the Khitan commander Tayangu and annexes Fergana and Otrar[106]
		Buraq Hajib is captured by Muhammad II of Khwarezm[107]
1211		The Karluks rebel against the Qara Khitai and switch sides to the Mongol Empire of Genghis Khan[105]
		Muhammad II of Khwarezm seizes Uzgen[108]
		Qara Khitai defeats Kuchlug but the returning army is refused entry into Balasagun due to being mistaken for Khwarazmian troops and ends up massacring the entire city[109]
		Kuchlug ambushes and captures Yelü Zhilugu, after which he usurps the throne of the Qara Khitai[110]
		Kuchlug attacks Ozar of Almaliq unsuccessfully, and Ozar submits to the Mongol Empire of Genghis khan[111]
1213		Yelü Zhilugu dies[110]
1214		Kuchlug captures Kashgar[111]
1216		Jebe of the Mongol Empire attacks the Qara Khitai and seizes Kashgar[112]
1218		Kuchlug is captured and executed by the Mongol Empire; so ends the Qara Khitai[113]

1220s

Year	Date	Event
1224		Buraq Hajib becomes governor of Kerman and converts to Islam, at which point the caliph grants him the title of Qutlugh Sultan[114]
1226		Buraq Hajib rebels against the Khwarazmian dynasty[114]
1227	September	Emperor Mozhu of Western Xia surrenders to the Mongol Empire and is promptly executed; so ends the Western Xia[115]

1230s

Year	Date	Event
1232		Buraq Hajib submits to the Mongol Empire and becomes Qutlugh Khan[114]
1234	9 February	Siege of Caizhou: Emperor Aizong of Jin abdicates to a distant relative, Hudun, who becomes Emperor Mo of Jin, and commits suicide; Emperor Mo of Jin is killed by the Mongols; so ends the Jin dynasty[116]
1235		Buraq Hajib dies[117]
1236		Qutb al-Din, cousin of Buraq Hajib, comes to power and is succeeded by Rukn al-Din, son of Buraq Hajib[117]

1250s

Year	Date	Event
1252		Rukn al-Din is succeeded by Qutb al-Din, cousin of Buraq Hajib and husband of his daughter Kutlugh Turkan[117]
1257		Qutb al-Din is succeeded by his wife Kutlugh Turkan[117]

1270s

Year	Date	Event
1279	19 March	Battle of Yamen: Mongol fleet annihilates the Song fleet and Zhao Bing dies at sea; so ends the Song dynasty[118]

1280s

Year	Date	Event
1282		Kutlugh Turkan is succeeded by her stepson Soyurghatmish[117]

1290s

Year	Date	Event
1292		Soyurghatmish is succeeded by Padishah Khatun, daughter of Qutb al-Din and Kutlugh Turkan[117]
1296		Padishah Khatun is succeeded by Sultan b. Hajjaj, son of Kutlugh Turkan and Qutb al-Din[117]

14th century

Year	Date	Event
1304		Sultan b. Hajjaj is succeeded by Jahan, son of Soyurghatmish[117]
1306		Öljaitü of the Ilkhanate deposes Jahan and installs a Mongol governor in Kerman[114]
1307		The last Qutlughkanid Jahan escapes to Shiraz[114]
1328		Jahan's daughter, Qutlugh Khatun, marries Mubariz al-Din Muhammad, the founder of the Muzaffarids[119]
1340		Mubariz al-Din Muhammad takes Kerman and reinstates the Qara Khitai[119]

19th century

Year	Date	Event
1811		People of the Ili region are still calling themselves the Qara Khitai[120]

See also

• Administrative divisions of the Liao dynasty

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