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Timeline of Chinese History from 220 to 650 A.D.

By Kallie Szczepanski, About.com

Timeline of Chinese history from the Three Kingdoms Period through the religious ferment of the seventh century A.D.

221-280 A.D. Three Kingdoms Period

265-318 Western Jin Dynasty

317-420 Eastern Jin Dynasty

4th Century Taklamakan Desert advances into settled areas

386-581 Northern and Southern Dynasties

581-617 Sui Dynasty

589(?) Invention of toilet paper

618-907 Tang Dynasty

625-645 Buddhist monk Xuanzang travels to India

635 Nestorian Christianity spreads to China

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