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The Sui dynasty (, pinyin: Suí cháo) was a short-lived Chinese imperial dynasty that ruled from 581 to 618. The re-unification of China proper under the Sui brought the Northern and Southern dynasties era to a close, ending a prolonged period of political division since the War of the Eight Princes .
The First Interregnum began upon the death of Alexander III of Scotland in 1286. Alexander's only surviving descendant was his granddaughter Margaret, Maid of Norway, a young child, who inherited the throne in 1286. A set of guardians were appointed to rule Scotland in her absence since she was living in Norway where her father Eric II was king ...
Wen of Sui: Yang of Sui: Sui dynasty: Emperor of China: 8 December 617 Gong of Sui: Gong of Sui: Sui dynasty: Emperor of China: 12 June 618 Gaozu of Tang: Yang Tong: Sui dynasty: Emperor of China: 23 May 619 Wang Shichong: Gaozu of Tang: Tang dynasty: Emperor of China: 4 September 626 Taizong of Tang: Kōgyoku: Japan: Empress of Japan: 12 July ...
Emperor Yang of Sui is killed by strangulation in a coup led by his general Yuwen Huaji in Jiangdu [10] 12 June: Li Yuan (Tang Gaozu - note that Tang emperor naming convention uses the posthumous Temple Name) deposes Emperor Gong of Sui and founds the Tang dynasty; so ends the Sui dynasty [10]
The Sui and Tang added posts for compilation of the imperial diary and proof-reading documents. In the Sui dynasty, the Central Secretariat Director was sometimes the same person as the Grand Chancellor (zaixiang 宰相). In the Tang, the Director was also master of court assemblies, and often where Grand Chancellors started their careers.
After this conquest, the whole of China entered a new golden age of reunification under the centralization of the short-lived Sui dynasty and the succeeding Tang dynasty (618–907). The core elite of the Northern dynasties, mixed-culture, and mixed-ethnicity military clans, would later also form the founding elites of the Sui and Tang dynasties.
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Of the surviving pre-Roman accounts of Scotland, the first written reference to Scotland was the Greek Pytheas of Massalia, who may have circumnavigated the British Isles of Albion and Ierne (Ireland) [26] [27] sometime around 325 BC. The most northerly point of Britain was called Orcas (Orkney).