The designation " Mongol " briefly appeared in 8th century records of the Chinese Tang dynasty, describing a tribe of Shiwei, and resurfaced again in the late 11th century during the rule of Khitan.

* Dou Kang, Chinese general and briefly a chancellor of the Tang Dynasty

* Dou Wei, a Chinese official of the Sui Dynasty who served briefly as chancellor for the Tang Dynasty until his death ( of illness ) in the same month

* Li Mi, Chinese rebel against the Sui Dynasty, served briefly as a Tang Dynasty official ( born 582 )

* Li Mi, Chinese rebel against the Sui Dynasty, briefly a Tang Dynasty official ( d. 619 )

** USS Tang ( SS-306 ), a United States Navy Balao class submarine that served briefly in World War II before being sunk by one of its own torpedoes

* Li Yu ( prince ) ( d. 905 ), Tang Dynasty prince briefly proclaimed emperor

At the outset of his rule, Yeon took a briefly conciliatory stance toward Tang Dynasty China.

Beginning in 664, Buyeo Yung served briefly as the governor of the " Ungjin Commandery " ( Hangul: 웅진도독부 Hanja: 熊津都督府 ) which Tang established to oversee the former territory of Baekje.

Emperor Zhongzong of Tang ( 唐中宗 ) ( 26 November 656 – 3 July 710 ), personal name Lǐ Xiǎn ( 李顯 ), at times during his life Li Zhe ( 李哲 ) and Wu Xian ( 武顯 ), was the fourth Emperor of the Tang Dynasty of China, ruling briefly in 684 and again from 705 to 710.

Emperor Suzong of Tang ( 唐肅宗 ; February 21, 711 – May 16, 762 ; r. 756 – 762 ), personal name Li Heng ( 李亨 ), né Li Sisheng ( 李嗣升 ), known as Li Jun ( 李浚 ) from 725 to 736, known as Li Yu ( 李璵 ) from 736 to 738, known briefly as Li Shao ( 李紹 ) in 738, was an emperor of the Tang Dynasty and the son of Emperor Xuanzong.

Han Xiu () ( 672 – 739 ), courtesy name Liangshi ( 良士 ), formally Viscount Wenzhong of Yiyang ( 宜陽文忠子 ), was an official of the Chinese dynasty Tang Dynasty, briefly serving as chancellor during the reign of Emperor Xuanzong.

* Chen Shuda, former Chinese prince of the Chen Dynasty, served as a Chancellor of the Tang Dynasty

* Yeon Namsan, Goguryeo-Korean military leader who later served as an official in the Chinese Tang Dynasty ( d. 701 )

* Yeon Namsan, Goguryeo-Korean military leader who later served as an official in the Chinese Tang Dynasty ( b. 639 )

* Chen Shen, former crown prince of the fallen Chen Dynasty, later served as an official in the Sui and Tang dynasties

* The second Tang ( SS / AGSS-563 ) served through the first half of the Cold War.

From the Tang to Qing dynasties, the Grand Canal served as the main artery between northern and southern China and was essential for the transport of grain to Beijing.

Sui and Tang dynasties were founded by Han Chinese generals who also served the Northern Wei Dynasty.

The Tang court annually served up a special batch of deep fried pastries as desert for the occasion, most likely served in the Serpentine River Park.

The caves initially served only as a place of meditation for hermit monks, but developed to serve the monasteries that sprung up nearby in the early periods, and by the Sui and Tang dynasties, Mogao Caves had become a place of worship and pilgrimage for the public.

Tang Shengzhi, who Peng served under, aligned himself with Wang, and Peng was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and regimental commander.

Tang has also served extensively on various government boards and public bodies, including the Trade Development Council, Town Planning Board, University Grants Committee, and Council of the City University of Hong Kong.

Tang served as Acting Chief Executive of HKSAR soon after Tsang's resignation was announced.

From 2003 to 2006, Tang served as Chief Conductor of the Finnish National Opera.

He later served as the magistrate of Chang ' an County ( one of the two counties making up the Tang capital Chang ' an ) and then as Jiabu Langzhong ( 駕部郎中 ), a supervisorial official at the ministry of rites ( 禮部, Libu ).

He later served as the prefect of Su Prefecture ( 蘇州, in modern Suzhou, Jiangsu ), and it was said that the irrigation ditches and the streets that he constructed were still heavily relied upon at the time that the Book of Tang was written — i. e., during Later Jin Dynasty.

In 1952, Tang resigned from the Army and after a brief stint of private practice, served as Deputy County Attorney of Maricopa, Arizona in 1952-1957 and Assistant Attorney General of Arizona in 1957-1959.

Tang served for sixteen years before he took senior status in 1993.

In the interim, Tsang and later Henry Tang served as acting Chief Executives in accordance with the Basic Law.

Before 1937, Tang had served as a general under Chiang but without really much true power.

The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.

" The Abbot " was a nickname of RZA from the Wu Tang Clan.

* 663 – Silla – Tang armies crush the Baekje restoration attempt and force Yamato Japan to withdraw from Korea in the Battle of Baekgang.

This economic phenomenon was a slow and gradual process that took place from the late Tang Dynasty ( 618 – 907 ) into the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 ).

The Shang Dynasty featured 31 kings, from Tang of Shang to King Zhou of Shang.

The period of political disunity between the Tang and the Song, known as the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period, lasted little more than half a century, from 907 to 960.

They were honored with the rank of a marquis thirty-five times since Gaozu of the Han Dynasty, and they were promoted to the rank of duke forty-two times from the Tang Dynasty to the Qing Dynasty.

A bas-relief of a soldier and horse with saddle and stirrup s, from the tomb of Chinese Emperor Taizong of Tang ( r. 626-649 ), c. 650

During the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 ), the Chinese used a silver canister where written lots could be drawn that designated which player had to drink and specifically how much ; for example, from 1, 5, 7, or 10 measures of drink that the youngest player, or the last player to join the game, or the most talkative player, or the host, or the player with the greatest alcohol tolerance, etc.

As early as the 7th century the word 天皇 ( which can be read either as sumera no mikoto, divine order, or as tennō, Heavenly Emperor, the latter being derived from a Tang Chinese term referring to the Pole star around which all other stars revolve ) began to be used.

* 631 – Emperor Taizong of Tang, the Emperor of China, sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in order to seek the release of enslaved Chinese prisoners captured during the transition from Sui to Tang from the northern frontier ; this embassy succeeded in freeing 80, 000 Chinese men and women who were then returned to China.

In this era of escalating Japanese militarism, the name was changed from (" Chinese hand " or " Tang hand " verbatim, as the name of the Tang dynasty was a synonym to China in Okinawa ) to (" empty hand ") – both of which are pronounced karate – to indicate that the Japanese wished to develop the combat form in Japanese style.

Koan developed during the Tang Dynasty from the recorded sayings collections of Chán-masters, which quoted many stories of " a famous past Chán figure's encounter with disciples or other interlocutors and then offering his own comment on it ".

* 762 – During An Shi Rebellion, Tang Dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptured Luoyang from the rebels.

The first reference to card games in world history dates from the 9th century, when the Collection of Miscellanea at Duyang, written by Tang Dynasty writer Su E, described Princess Tongchang, daughter of Emperor Yizong of Tang, playing the " leaf game " in 868 with members of the Wei clan, the family of the princess ' husband.

Later on Polo was passed from Persia to other parts of Asia including the Indian subcontinent and China, where it was very popular during the Tang Dynasty and frequently depicted in paintings and statues.

Several laws enforcing racial segregation of foreigners from Chinese were passed by the Han chinese during the Tang dynasty.

In 779 the Tang dynasty issued an edict which forced Uighurs to wear their ethnic dress, stopped them from marrying Chinese females, and banned them from pretending to be Chinese.

A short story appearing in Zhang Zhuo's ( 660-741 ) Tang anthology shows how the deity had been venerated in Shaolin from at least the eighth century.