It is long and was built to carry the Emperor Yang Guang between Beijing and Hangzhou.

Statue of Yang Guifei ( 719-756 ), the favoured concubine of Emperor Tang Xuanzong of China.

The first foot-sensor-activated automatic door was made in China during the reign of Emperor Yang of Sui ( r. 604 – 618 ), who had one installed for his royal library.

* Li Linfu, Chancellor of Tang China during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong ( 712 – 756 ) in the latter years, was exhumed and executed for crimes of high treason by his rival Yang Guozhong for his implication in the An Lushan Rebellion.

* Emperor Yang Guang of the Sui Dynasty orders the capital to be transferred from Chang ' an to Luoyang, and orders the Grand Canal to be built.

* After the completion of the Grand Canal of China, Emperor Yang of Sui led a recorded long naval flotilla of ships from the north down to his southern capital at Yangzhou.

* Yang Guifei, consort of Emperor Xuanzong ( executed )

* September 8 – Emperor Yang of Sui

* Yang Yan, minister under Emperor Dezong

* Goguryeo general Yang Manchun resists the Emperor Taizong of Tang.

* Emperor Yang of Sui ( b. 569 )

* Empress Yang Yan, first wife of Emperor Wu ( d. 274 )

The mothers of both Emperor Yang of Sui ( r. 604 – 617 ) and the founding emperor of Tang were sisters, making these two emperors of different dynasties first cousins.

In 617, Li Yuan occupied Chang ' an and acted as regent over a puppet child emperor of the Sui, relegating Emperor Yang to the position of Taishang Huang, or retired emperor / father of the present emperor.

Portrait painting of Emperor Yang of Sui, commissioned in 643 by Emperor Taizong of Tang | Taizong, painted by Yan Liben ( 600 – 673 )

Emperor Wen abolished the anti-Han policies of Zhou and reclaimed his Han surname of Yang.

Emperor Yang of Sui gained the throne after his father's death, possibly by murder.

The Sui Dynasty's second emperor, Emperor Yang conscripted many soldiers for the campaign.

Emperor Yang was assassinated in 618.

* Empress Yang Yan, first wife of Emperor Wu ( b. 238 )

" Some distorted accounts claim that in the age of Emperor Yingzong, Song Dynasty ( 960-1279 ) of China, a poem named Ode to the ice cheese ( 詠冰酪 ) was written by the poet Yang Wanli.

Emperor Yang of Sui, son of Emperor Wen of Sui, who completed the project, painting by Tang artist Yan Liben ( 600 – 673 )

Between 604 to 609, Emperor Yang Guang ( or Sui Yangdi ) of the Sui dynasty ordered a number of canals be dug in a ‘ Y ’ shape, from Hangzhou in the south to termini in ( modern ) Beijing and in the capital region along the Yellow River valley.

In the year 1712, the Mughal Emperor Jahandar Shah, a grandson of Aurangzeb sent gifts to the Ottoman Sultan Ahmad III and refereed to himself as the Ottoman Sultan's devoted admirer.

The Mughal Emperor Farrukhsiyar a grandson of Aurangzeb, is also known to have sent a letter to the Ottomans bu this time it was received by the Grand Vizier Nevşehirli Damad Ibrahim Pasha providing a graphic description of the informing him of the efforts of the Mughal commander Syed Hassan Ali Khan Barha against the Rajput and Maratha rebellion.

In 1054 King Edward sent Ealdred to Germany to obtain Emperor Henry III's help in returning Edward the Exile, son of Edmund Ironside, to England.

He later sent a letter to Yeshaq's successor Zara Yaqob in 1450, in which he wrote that he would be happy to send artisans to Ethiopia if their safe arrival could be guaranteed, but it probably never reached the Emperor.

He was next sent by the Pope to the Emperor Sigismund to ask his aid in the pope's efforts to end this Council, which for five years had been encroaching on papal prerogatives.

Roman control of Britain finally ended in the early part of the 5th century ; the date usually given as marking the end of Roman Britain is 410, when the Emperor Honorius sent letters to the British, urging them to look to their own defence.

There he saw " the things which have been sent to the king from the golden land "— the Aztec treasure that Hernán Cortés had sent home to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V following the fall of Mexico.

Having fled to Egypt, Cyril bribed Theodosius ' courtiers, and sent a mob led by Dalmatius, a hermit, to besiege Theodosius ' palace, and shout abuse ; the Emperor eventually gave in, sending Nestorius into minor exile ( Upper Egypt ).

A second, larger, expedition sent by Emperor Kangxi expelled the Dzungars from Tibet in 1720 and the troops were hailed as liberators.

Nothing is known of her until in order to seal an alliance between two Saxon kingdoms, her half-brother, King Athelstan of England, sent two of his sisters to Germany, instructing the Duke of Saxony ( later Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor ) to choose whichever one pleased him best.

Although the empire was again subdivided and a co-emperor sent to Italy at the end of the fourth century, the office became unitary again only 95 years later at the request of the Roman Senate and following the death of Julius Nepos, last Western Emperor.

Hikami no Kawatsugu, a son of Emperor Temmu's grandson Prince Shioyaki and Shōmu's daughter Fuwa, attempted to carry out a coup d ' état in 782, but it failed and Kawatsugu and his mother were sent into exile.

The newly designated Mughal Subedar of the province immediately sent a letter to the British authorities at Fort St George demanding that the English at Madras acknowledge the overlordship of the Mughal Emperor.

He was sent in 1515 as part of the Portuguese embassy to the ( Emperor of Ethiopia ), accompanied by the Ethiopian ambassador Matheus.

Though he had a happy childhood surrounded by his many siblings, his family knew Francis was likely to be a future Emperor ( his uncle Joseph had no surviving issue from either of his two marriages ), and so in 1784 the young Archduke was sent to the Imperial Court in Vienna to educate and prepare him for his future role.

* 1552-After the requests from the inhabitants of the town, Charles I of Spain ( the Emperor Charles V ) sent the Italian engineer Giovanni Battista Calvi to strengthen the defences of the town.

However, this all changed in 450 when Honoria, sister of the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III, sent Attila a ring and requested his help to escape her betrothal to a senator.

Hoping to avoid the sack of Rome herself, Emperor Valentinian III sent three envoys, the high civilian officers Gennadius Avienus and Trigetius, as well as the Bishop of Rome Leo I, who met Attila at Mincio in the vicinity of Mantua, and obtained from him the promise that he would withdraw from Italy and negotiate peace with the emperor.

Theodorus Lector, in his 6th-century History of the Church 1: 1 stated that Eudokia ( wife of Theodosius II, died 460 ) sent an image of " the Mother of God " named Icon of the Hodegetria from Jerusalem to Pulcheria, daughter of the Emperor Arcadius: the image was specified to have been " painted by the Apostle Luke.

In the year 1623, the Mughal Emperor Jahangir, sent his Tahwildar, Khan Alam to Safavid Persia, accompanied by 800 Sepoys, scribes and scholars along with 10 Howdahs well decorated in gold and silver, in order to negotiate peace with Abbas I of Persia after a brief conflict in the region around Kandahar.

It seemed likely that Antioch itself would fall to Nur ad-Din, but he withdrew when Emperor Manuel sent a large Byzantine force to the area.

The Exarch sent to Italy by Emperor Justin II, Longinus, could defend only coastal cities that could be supplied by the powerful Byzantine fleet.

The friendship of the Emperor Constantine raised him from penury and he became tutor in Latin to his son Crispus, whom Lactantius may have followed to Trier in 317, when Crispus was made Caesar ( lesser co-emperor ) and sent to the city.

In 1562, the Bavarian government sent a long plea to the Holy Roman Emperor asking him to stop the cutting of yew, and outlining the damage done to the forests by its selective extraction, which broke the canopy and allowed wind to destroy neighbouring trees.