Emperor Tang Suzong (肅宗 (711-762, r.756-762), born Li Heng (李亨), he was the seventh emperor of the Tang dynasty and the son of emperor Xuanzong. Suzong ascended the throne after his father abdicated while fleeing to Sichuan during the An Lushan rebellion in 756. Much of Suzong's reign was spent in charged of quelling the An Lushan rebellion that was ultimately put down in 763. Image File history File links Emperor Suzong of Tang China File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... See also: phone number 711. ... Events Abbasid caliph al-Mansur founds new capital at Baghdad, Iraq Births Deaths Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China Chinese poet Li Po, the Poet Immortal. ... Events Abd-ar-rahman I conquers Iberia and establishes a new Umayyad dynasty. ... Events Abbasid caliph al-Mansur founds new capital at Baghdad, Iraq Births Deaths Emperor Xuanzong of Tang China Chinese poet Li Po, the Poet Immortal. ... Sichuan (Chinese: 四川; pinyin: ; Wade-Giles: Ssu-ch`uan; non-standard transliteration: Szechwan) is a province in central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. ... An Lushan (安禄山; Hanyu Pinyin: ān lùshān) (703 - 757) was a military leader of Sogdian origin during the Tang Dynasty in China. ... Events Abd-ar-rahman I conquers Iberia and establishes a new Umayyad dynasty. ... Events Ciniod succeeds Bridei V as king of the Picts. ...
During his reign, eunuchs started to gain the power, he appointed an eunuch Li Fuguo(李輔國) as a top officer of the government, Li controlled the military and the financial department. Finally, Li killed the empress and shortly after that, Suzong died with myocardial infarction. His son succeeded as emperor and killed Li. Li Fuguo李輔國(704-762) was a eunuch official during the reign of Emperor Suzong of Tang Dynasty. ... A myocardial infarction occurs when an atherosclerotic plaque slowly builds up in the inner lining of a coronary artery and then suddenly ruptures, totally occluding the artery and preventing blood flow downstream. ...
EmperorTang Xuanzong (唐玄宗) (September 8, 685 - May 3, 762), born Li Longji (李隆基), was the sixth emperor of the Tang dynasty of China reigining from 712 to 756.
Known also as Tang Minghuang, the early half of his reign (712-730's) saw TangChina reach the height of her powers, in a period known popularly as the Kaiyuan era (開元之治).
Xuanzong abdicated his position to Suzong, the heir apparent in 756, and died in 762 shortly before the rebellion was finally quashed.