Li Yuan takes the imperial throne
The Zizhi tongjian records the King of Tang taking the imperial throne in Taiji Hall.
What this does and does not establish
Wikisource revision 2551225, line 88; the preceding clause dates the Sui abdication to wuwu, a separate action.
- Read through an AI working translation.
- Region
- East Asia
- Theme
- Politics and institutions
- Kind of record
- Placed in a year. A source places this in one year. It is listed under that year; no day precision is invented.
How it is dated
- Date reference
- Fifth month, jiazi; transition from Sui Yining 2 to Tang Wude 1
- How we use it
- Year-level placement is limited to the dated source entry.
The date reference is this project’s reading of the source’s date. It may give an era name, a reign or a calendar in a normalised form rather than in the source’s own words; the dating notes say what the source prints.
Dating notes from the research record
Read zztj185.wikitext lines 64–94: summer fourth month is followed by fifth month at line 84, then wuwu abdication and jiazi accession at line 88. sinica-617-12-31.html lines 31–32 gives Sui Emperor Gong, Yining 1, month 11 day 28; sinica-618-12-31.html gives Tang Emperor Gaozu, Wude 1, month 12 day 10. These actual dynasty headers bracket the fifth-month accession within Julian AD 618.
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Sources and quoted text
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Source 1 · Supports the statement
Zizhi tongjian
Sima Guang and collaborators
Quoted text (Classical Chinese)
甲子，唐王即皇帝位於太極殿，AI working translation into English; not official or authoritative
On jiazi, the King of Tang took the imperial throne in Taiji Hall.
Source credit and reuse conditions recorded for this source: Zizhi tongjian, juan 185; Wikisource contributors https://zh.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=2551225, CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/); project translation, adapted and share alike where applicable.
Exact source version
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Source checked 2026-11-05. An independent AI evidence review supports this bounded, attributed wording. That review does not guarantee historical truth. How records are checked
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